(click the image to enlarge)This amazing image from a local photographer, Shane Durrance, actually shows an EF-2 tornado sweeping across downtown Atlanta. It is an amazing image, capturing color and lights in striking timing and movement.
Shane Durrance was on top of his condominium when he saw the potential for a great photo of the downtown area. He took the photo just as 11Alive's Paul Ossmann (the weather guy) was talking about tornado warnings in Atlanta .
Durrance, who is an acquaintance of Ossmann's, sent the photo to 11Alive and said he believed he'd missed catching the tornado on film. But after Ossmann reviewed the picture, he assured Durrance that he had indeed gotten the shot. The picture shows a light-gray vertical strip of what looks like clouds connecting the cityscape to the larger clouds above.
Look to the left of Atlanta, not the middle of the picture. That is the actual tornado. Ossmann said it didn't look like the usual sort of funnel cloud because it was embedded in rain showers at the time of the photograph.
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