Amazing Katrina Photos
These were taken in Alabama of Katrina as it was “coming in”. Although devastating, there is a bit of beauty in the photos. These pictures were taken by Mike Hollingshead who is storm photographer. Thanks Justin for letting know who is the photographer. You can see other weather pictures such as weird clouds. Go to check it and give the comments. Thanks.
David said,
September 28, 2006 @ 1:50 am
These photos are not real. I have a degree in meteorology, so i’m not blowing smoke out my ass. lol
jim said,
September 29, 2006 @ 8:11 pm
Katrin Photos
None of Your Buisness said,
October 4, 2006 @ 7:24 am
Well these pictures are great but they look sorta fake, the 4th one looks a little believable but im not that sure but if they are real these are excellent pictures and they are simple extraordinary.
Good Job!!! And Dave there is no need to curse there just pictures and im sure that no one would ever want to blow smoke out of ur hairy nasty ass “lol” 
damn loser….(like that?)
Gavin said,
October 16, 2006 @ 1:59 pm
These photos were taken by Mike Hollingshead, a professional storm chaser. They’re photos of thunderstorms in the Great Plains.
Jeremy said,
October 22, 2006 @ 4:02 pm
I dont understand how you can say that these photos are not real. honestly i think that David just thinks that they are not real because he has been use to the common clouds we normally see and the only thing i can say is if you never seen clouds like this but there is evidence of it then it must be true
Veaetta said,
November 29, 2006 @ 4:00 am
I agree with Gavin’s post - these are NOT Katrina, but simply the pictures taken over Nebraska & Kansas during 2002 & 2004, by Mike Hollingshead.
Since I’m a native Nebraskan, I can vouch for the validity of the photos - I have seen cells quite similar to these building myself & even though these are somewhat more awesome, they’re still very nerve wracking!! Been too close to some just like these too many times!
Veaetta, in Nebraska
Emily said,
April 12, 2007 @ 12:29 am
Wow, that is a great photo. I’m a storm chaser, so i would have loved to have been there when you took that photo!!
bobby said,
June 8, 2007 @ 12:23 am
Yeah, i live in the Katrina affected area, and it doesnt look like that when a hurricane comes in, these are definitly not of katrina, or any hurricane.
Paige said,
June 14, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
How can people say that they look fake. Because they so dont, they look as real as anything. Some of them look like Alien Spaceships coming to land. lol. But still amazing photos whoever took them. Well done
OneOfEm said,
June 26, 2007 @ 12:54 am
I’ve been through Fredrick, Erin, Opal, Ivan, Katrina, and Dennis (as well as many other less memorable hurricanes and tropical storms).
Starting a couple of days before their arrival, these large storms are always preceded first by scattered high-level clouds, then by a blanket of high-level clouds, all moving in the same counter-clockwise direction as the system’s rotation. This rotation is evident, even in still photographs. None of these pictures indicate any sign of rotation.
I’m sure they are real - just local storms mislabeled as Katrina.
-OOE
Steve said,
June 26, 2007 @ 1:34 am
These are great photos of tornadoes. I have seen them before. They are not photos of any hurricanes though. Katrina was far bigger than these tiny storms. The front of a hurricane is many miles across, not small enough for you to see the entire storm.
jamie said,
June 26, 2007 @ 5:52 am
Well if these have been photoshoped then I’d employ the guy to do my web design
Jason said,
June 26, 2007 @ 6:59 am
I’ve lived up and down the east coast. I’ve been through hurricanes Hugo, Andrew, Fran, Floyd, and Irene. I took pictures of them all. I never saw anything that looked remotely like these pictures until I moved out here to Oklahoma. A hurricane is so large, even the small hurricanes, that the storm covers from horizon to horizon. You can not simply just look out and see it coming. The covers up with dark clouds slowly as a hurricane approaches. The outer portion of the hurricane does not have a “wall” cloud. You can however, if the eye passes directly over you, and you have a high enough vantage point (hard to get on the coast), see a 360 degree wall cloud surrounding the eye. While I was not in, or near Katrina, I can tell you there is no way these images are the result of Katrina, or any other hurricane for that matter. I can not tell you where they actually are from, the mid-west is where I would guess. You can find several of these photos disproved as Katrina photos at www.snopes.com.
areyoukidding said,
June 26, 2007 @ 7:18 am
They are photoshop’d
Look at Pic’s 3 and 7, 2 twisters not touching ground and the 7′th pic the colors dont even match from the “brushed” rain effect to the clouds.
Jeff said,
June 26, 2007 @ 7:39 am
This is how they determined these images are not Katrina…
http://www.extremeinstability.com/imagesbyyear.htm
Look at the image next to year 2004, then look at the second image here.
Meh said,
June 28, 2007 @ 12:24 am
@areyoukidding,
Your comment states your ignorance of weather systems. Good play, mate!
Steve said,
June 29, 2007 @ 9:37 am
These pictures are real but they are not of an oncoming Katrina. These are supercells forming into tornados. Even the idiot with a meteorology degree should know this! These photos are not fake. Mother Nature is big and bad!
jason weber said,
July 1, 2007 @ 12:28 pm
Alabama isnt in the great plains. These pictures are. Alabama is covered in trees, it doesnt look like that. Particularly the coastal regions. Also, I saw these same pictures years ago, and the description was “Kansas Storms” or some shit.
Why lie about something like that?
brian said,
July 2, 2007 @ 8:56 am
you’re all full of shit….you can clearly see by the direction of the sun that these pictures were taken in Africa during the monsoon season…..wake up people…..
meteo-mel said,
July 10, 2007 @ 8:15 am
no, these are not from katrina. I have seen a few of these shots online before that system ever developed.
however, what no one has mentioned is that it is possible for a tropical system to spin off bands of severe storms which can produce mesocyclones and tornadoes like the ones shown in the above photographs. the SPC often issues tornado watches/warnings when tropical systems come ashore. an AMS journal states that floyd spun off 18 tornadoes before making landfall. casualties from tropical cyclones are most likely to occur as a result of storm surge, flooding, or tornadoes.
just because these were not taken durring katrina, doesn’t mean that its impossible to take photos like these during tropical cyclones.
(as for brian: lol good one haha!)
Steve said,
July 20, 2007 @ 8:23 am
“These photos are not real. I have a degree in meteorology, so i’m not blowing smoke out my ass. lol”
Just because you’re an expert on meteors doesn’t mean you know anything about clouds.
Justin said,
July 22, 2007 @ 1:01 am
Like Jeff said, these are pictures by Mike Hollingshead, my favorite storm photographer… go to www.extremeinstability.com for more of his beautiful pictures.
I certainly hope whoever posted these pics as Hurricane Katrina was honestly mistaken and not simply lying. I’ll assume the former, but I’ll certainly let Mike Hollingshead know about this.
Lauren said,
July 22, 2007 @ 4:23 am
These are real photos, but they are not from Hurricane Katrina, not even anything on the Gulf Coast. They’re tornadoes in the Midwest. Read more on Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp
me said,
August 5, 2007 @ 10:29 pm
Oh haha, your not a meteorologist, and these photos are real, you just hate the fact that somebody is getting credit for something amazing that you didn’t do. Anything out of the ordinary, strange, and rare, you losers say “it is fake.” answer me this, why is it always fake? why? why is EVERY PHOTO FAKE? Unless you take it urself you say “oh it isn’t real” and “thats fake” and other shit like that so unless you have actual evidence it isn’t real other that “it looks fake” and “how is that real”, it is real. i am looking for real information why you think it isn’t real.
xzoto said,
August 7, 2007 @ 3:28 am
meterology = the study or weather (who would study meteors? probably astronomists)
carolyn said,
August 11, 2007 @ 7:32 am
these photos was sent around on the internet in may o5 as “springtime on the plains” I printed copies at that time so I know they were not made from any hurricanes!!!!! also I lived in south fla and south al all my life and hurricanes do no spawn off cloud formations like these.. the guy that supposedly made these photos just plain LIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Silver said,
September 17, 2007 @ 1:05 pm
Tthat isn’t even Hurricane Katrina. That’s a thunderstorm over the midwest.
Marcia Surratt said,
September 20, 2007 @ 10:16 am
I lived in Pascagoula, MS during Katrina and ran on Sunday before she came in. I ran east towards Atlanta, but never got here, we had to stop in Atmore, AL at a hotel because Katrina had caught up with us. The first photo is exactly what I saw that Sunday in Atmore. It’s scary by itself, so anyone who can say that this was not a Katrina photo, well, were you actually there? As far at the other photos, I can’t vouch for them, they are amazing by themselves. Thank you for allowing me to comment on your wonderful weather photos.
Cj B said,
September 29, 2007 @ 5:00 am
Wow, those are some amazing photos!
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