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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Pretty surreal to say I’ve officially documented an EF5 tornado. The first EF5 tornado since Moore 2013. Enderlin, North Dakota - June 20, 2025.

My digital shot of an EF5 tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota on the night of June 20, 2025.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

One week ago today, Mother Nature gifted me a birthday tornado intercept in my own backyard. Watertown, South Dakota - July 27, 2025

Photo of a tall, backlit, and violent stovepipe tornado lifting debris in the air over a road and cornfields west of Watertown, South Dakota on July 27, 2025.

Photo of a tall and violent stovepipe tornado lifting debris in the air over a road and cornfields west of Watertown, South Dakota on July 27, 2025.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

One week ago today, I had the chase of a lifetime in my backyard Gary, South Dakota - June 28, 2025

Tornado over a prairie hill west of Gary, SD on June 28, 2025.

Tornado and supercell structure looking due west near Gary, SD on June 28, 2025.

Dreamy tornado before it begins to occlude west of Gary, SD on June 28, 2025.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Last night I chased this monster supercell and wedge tornado in southwest Iowa. Some of the most incredible structure I’ve ever seen!

Supercell with wedge tornado near Essex, Iowa on April 17, 2025.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A stormy night in northeast Nebraska last week ⚡️

Close range CG (cloud-to-ground) lightning bolt down a country road north of Norfolk, Nebraska on March 28, 2025.

Line of storms with shelf cloud structure and lightning at sunset north of Norfolk, Nebraska on March 28, 2025.

CG (cloud-to-ground) lightning bolt north of Norfolk, Nebraska on March 28, 2025.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The night sky came alive recently near Watertown, South Dakota.

Bright aurora borealis with a variety of green, pink, red, and purple colors over a rural landscape near Watertown, South Dakota on March 21, 2025.

Bright aurora borealis with a variety of green, pink, red, and purple colors over a rural landscape at sunset near Watertown, South Dakota on March 21, 2025.

Bright aurora borealis with a variety of green, pink, red, and purple colors over a rural landscape with pine trees near Watertown, South Dakota on March 21, 2025.

Bright aurora borealis with a variety of green, pink, red, and purple colors over a rural landscape with power transmission towers near Watertown, South Dakota on March 21, 2025.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We documented a violent tornado near West Plains, Missouri on March 14, 2025. The most intense tornado I’ve ever chased. The roar sounded evil as it moved in with extreme RFD winds associated with a very wide circulation. Extreme damage also occurred near Bakersfield-South Fork, Missouri.

Large wedge tornado and mesocyclone above as it approaches West Plains, Missouri on the night of March 14, 2025. Violent motion and an extremely loud roar was observed.

Reflectivity and velocity radar signatures of a tornado-producing supercell as it approached our location near West Plains, Missouri on March 14, 2025.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today I documented the first EVER February tornado in South Dakota HISTORY! 🌪️ 📍 Watertown, South Dakota 🗓️ February 24, 2025

Tornado as it first formed southeast of Watertown, South Dakota - 4:11 pm (2/24/2025)

Video screenshot of tornado southeast of Watertown, South Dakota - 4:12 pm (2/24/2025)

Photo of supercell with evident low level features, organized base, and lightning on the west side of Watertown, South Dakota - 3:30 pm (2/24/2025)

Rainbow over Watertown, South Dakota after tornado - 4:20 pm (2/24/2025)

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Craving more nights under the aurora

Photo of overhead aurora with a sky full of pink, purple, and green auroras with a prairie church as the subject surrounded by trees with a walkway leading up to the entrance of the church. Photo captured near Watertown, South Dakota on May 10, 2024.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The first aurora of 2025 danced in the night sky last night.

Aurora borealis along the horizon with a train track and gravel road in foreground as well as a barn and silo in the middle ground. Captured near Watertown, South Dakota on January 4, 2025.

Aurora borealis along the horizon with a road sign directing to which direction Watertown is. Car headlights are in long exposure form behind the sign.

Aurora borealis with red auroral pillars above the horizon with a group of trees on the left side of image.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It’s been real, 2024. Thank you.

Collage of 20 photos I captured in 2024. Photos include bright, vivid auroras, a total solar eclipse, storm clouds, tornadoes, a wolf, moose, Milky Way, and a comet. All in random order.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I chased tornadoes in Mississippi on Saturday. This is my view back home in South Dakota today.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Light pillars this morning in Watertown, South Dakota. This stuff never gets old. #sdwx #atoptics #photography

Variety of color of light pillars at this airport in the distance. December 11, 2024.

Driving toward light pillars shining tall looking west. December 11, 2024.

Light pillars looming west over a highway. December 11, 2024

Light pillars overlooking the eastern side of Watertown. December 11, 2024

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Crazy to think I captured these photos just in South Dakota this year

A tornado crossing a road with storm chasers positioning ahead of it just before sunset in rural northern South Dakota. Photo captured on August 28, 2024 near the town of Mound City.

Bright green, pink, and yellow aurora borealis over a prairie church and cemetery northwest of Watertown, South Dakota on May 11, 2024.

Noctilucent clouds over an hour after sunset looking northwest over the dark rural landscape northwest of Watertown, South Dakota on July 1, 2024.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the night sky over rural eastern South Dakota on October 14, 2024.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Beam me up, Scotty! Incredible display of light pillars last night in Watertown, South Dakota. The -20°F wind chill and strong winds were brutal but it was great to get back in the elements after a long month of not picking up my camera. #sdwx #atoptics #photography

$Light pillars shining high behind a grove of trees and hay bales in the rural countryside of South Dakota. Wind blown snow and very cold temperatures made for a great display of light refractions. Shot near Watertown, SD on December 4, 2024.$ A lone tree without its leaves, snow on the ground, and distant light pillars in rural countryside outside of Watertown, South Dakota on December 4, 2024.

A lone tree without its leaves, snow on the ground, and distant light pillars in rural countryside outside of Watertown, South Dakota on December 4, 2024.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A large tornado ripping through farmland near Harlan, Iowa. By far the craziest storm chase of my life.

Photo of a grungy, large tornado spinning through farmland and rural communities in western Iowa. A lone storm chaser on a main road behind the tornado drives to get closer to the tornado as a water tower indicating a nearby town dodges narrowly close by. Near Harlan, Iowa on April 26, 2024.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It felt like I was in a snow globe tonight in Watertown, South Dakota. A great start to December!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A wonderful display of light pillars near the University of North Dakota's campus in Grand Forks last night. #NDwx

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Jeanine Holowatuik @northernescape.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The colours of 2024 🤩 as we hit a solar maximum! #solarcycle25 Activity fluctuates on an 11yr bell curve cycle, so we can still expect to see big shows for a cple years before things start to quiet down toward another solar minimum #northernlights #auroraborealis #nightphotography #astrolandscape

Red and green northern lights reflecting off a lake in the forest. Photo by Jeanine Holowatuik

Pink and green northern lights reflecting off a lake in the forest. Photo by Jeanine Holowatuik

Multi coloured northern lights reflecting off a lake in the forest. Photo by Jeanine Holowatuik

Magenta Aurora Borealis pillars in Saskatchewan. Photo by Jeanine Holowatuik

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Brendon 🐻🌪️❄ @brendonme.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Here is some lightning in a tornado for #TornadoTuesday Kimball, Nebraska, June 2023

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nights under the aurora never get old

Photo of greens and pinks of the aurora borealis combining over an abandoned prairie church in northeast South Dakota on October 7, 2024.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Desperately waiting for our next displays of aurora here on the northern plains. Central North Dakota, October 2024. #NDwx #aurora #northernlights

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

That moment when the aurora fills the entire sky… 💚🤩

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Paul M Smith @paulmsmithphoto.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This shot over a small Oklahoma homestead last month involved a close sprite grouping. The almost circular pattern can be seen where sprites trigger in the QE field conditions centered around the parent stroke.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I am still in disbelief that this happened back in April. Several prominences attempting to release from the Sun's surface during the April 8th, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse from Franklin, Vermont #VTwx #eclipse #solareclipse

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Brendon 🐻🌪️❄ @brendonme.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Stacked lenticular in the sunset tonight #wywx

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

There’s nothing quite like supercells in the High Plains

Photo of a supercell thunderstorm over orange/brown landscape and an abandoned building near Lubbock, Texas on May 17, 2021.

Photo of a supercell thunderstorm over a prairie field at sunset with purple/pink hues near Garden City, Kansas on May 24, 2021.

Photo of a supercell thunderstorm illuminated by lightning with stars above over a rural farm field near Broken Bow, Nebraska on July 11, 2023.

Photo of a supercell thunderstorm with the setting sun below casting a bright orange sky behind the storm and a bright red barn near Mound City, South Dakota on August 28, 2024.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Some of my most sentimental shots from 2024 📸

Photo of a total solar eclipse (moon completely blocking the sun) with corona visible near Poplar Bluff, Missouri on April 8, 2024.

Photo of the aurora borealis directly over a prairie church near Watertown, South Dakota on May 10, 2024.

Photo of a lightning bolt and rainbow combining for a spectacular display at sunset in Watertown, South Dakota on July 31, 2024.

Photo of a tall, photogenic tornado as it crossed a country road next to storm chasers near sunset southwest of Mound City, South Dakota on August 28, 2024.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 20/11/2024

The idea that the Great Plains are just “flyover states” is just utter crap. You know what, though? More for me. I’ll take the sweeping grasslands, fields of corn and wheat, and nomadic cloud-mountains every day.

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Holden @supercell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I've spent the past week or so sending emails, trying to make contacts, looking into press wire agencies and it's exhausting. I just want to be able to go take pictures. The nice thing about tornadoes is that they don't require permission or networking.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It’s crazy to think our atmosphere does stuff like this

A photo of a low precipitation (LP) supercell spinning graciously over rural Texas landscape. The brown landscape with the collapsed abandoned farm building provides a stark color contrast to the gray clouds spinning above. Photo captured near Lubbock, Texas on May 17, 2021.

A photo of a supercell thunderstorm with lightning spinning over rural Montana countryside. The orange glow of the remaining sunset casts a dramatic light as the dark clouds spin over the green landscape with the road leading to the storm ahead. Photo captured near Malta, Montana on June 9, 2021.

A photo of a dramatic supercell thunderstorm with a blue glow underneath and inside the storm as it races across Oklahoma farmland. Photo captured near Hennessey, Oklahoma on May 6, 2024.

A photo of a tornado as it dances back and forth of rural South Dakota farmland. The dark clouds pose a dramatic contrast with the bright orange field ahead of the tornado as transmission towers provide perspective to the erratic tornado. Photo captured near Mound City, South Dakota on August 28, 2024.

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daryl herzmann @akrherz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Got my IEMBots all up on BlueSky on Monday, a look at current follower counts. @box.weather.im in the lead for WFOs! @spc.weather.im overall.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

When the night sky explodes with color

Photo of bright aurora borealis with vivid reds at the top of the image and greens underneath. The water tower stands alone providing perspective as the aurora borealis shines brightly over rural South Dakota countryside. Photo captured near Watertown, South Dakota on October 7, 2024.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Let the darkness lead us into the light

Photo of the greens and purples of the aurora borealis over a cemetery with white gravestones in Drayton, North Dakota on November 3, 2021.

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Spencer Dant @sdantwx.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

A late season "transitional" trough is racing across the plains, and should produce some tornadoes tomorrow. But they aren't likely to be this kind - well structured, surrounded by dry air, slow moving, and easy to see. Can't wait for more of these.

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Exercising your rights feels so good. Get out and vote! 🇺🇸

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

I chased a historic tornado outbreak across Nebraska and Iowa on this day 6 months ago. Check out my video perspective of the Minden, IA EF3 tornado here: youtu.be/VsCDIURt26E?...

Photo of a large wedge tornado ripping up dirt and debris as it tears through the eastern side of Minden, Iowa as an EF3 tornado. There is brown dirt being picked up and showing itself with the tornado as the dark, menacing tornado moves closer to me. Shot looking south from I-80 north of Minden, Iowa on April 26, 2024.

Photo of a strong tornado taking on a dark, menacing contrast as it lifts dirt and debris near the town of Waverly, Nebraska. The green trees in the foreground provide a stark contrast to the dark contrasted tornado in the background and electric poles provide perspective. Shot looking east about 7 miles away from the tornado on April 26, 2024.

Photo of a large, wedge shaped tornado after it crossed I-80 north of Minden, Iowa. The back lit contrast provides a different feel and depth to the tornado with the car and road providing more context to the scene. Shot looking west-northeast less than a half a mile from the tornado on April 26, 2024.

Photo of a stout, large stovepipe tornado as it crossed over farmland in Nebraska-Iowa. The grey contrast provides a striking contrast to the golden brown farmland in the foreground showing the scale of this tornado. Shot northeast of Blair, Nebraska. This tornado was rated an EF4 and was the strongest of the day, April 26, 2024.

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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Where are the "luckiest" places to chase in the Great Plains? Here's some hotspots that you've probably ended up before...

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I captured these 4 photos in 2024. What an incredible year for astronomy!

Photo of a total solar eclipse. The moon is nearly completely covered the bright sun forming a “black hole” with sunlight around it. The bright light from the sun casts a “diamond ring” effect. Photo captured on April 8, 2024 near Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

Photo of a green, white, and purple/link auroral corona. This is looking straight up at overhead aurora as it pulsates and dances in vibrant colors and a “starburst” effect. Photo captured on May 10, 2024 near Watertown, South Dakota.

Photo of a partial lunar eclipse. The light of the sun casts a yellow hue to the moon as the earth’s shadow partially eclipses the north section of the moon dimming the light into a shadow onto the moon, its craters still visible. Photo captured on September 17, 2024 near Watertown, South Dakota.

Photo of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as it moves away from earth. The light of the dust, rock, and ice from the space rock casts a long tail with a bright front end of the comet. The dark sky contrasts with the bright comet and stars shining behind. A faint anti-tail leading ahead of the comet is also visible. Photo captured on October 14, 2024 near Miller, South Dakota.

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Jordan Hall @jordanhallwx.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Never in my life did I think I’d intercept a #tornado let alone in the Dominator 3 while simultaneously flying a drone filming ourselves! Spaulding, Nebraska 2023📍 #wxsky

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Alex Resel 📸 @aresel.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

It’s #TornadoTuesday so here are 4 tornadoes from my top 4 states to chase! 1. EF2 - Mound City, South Dakota 2. EF3 - Waverly, Nebraska 3. EF3 - Minden, Iowa 4. EF3 - Yuma, Colorado

A strong tornado spinning over rural South Dakota farmland. The dark contrast of the tornado adds a menacing effect with bright, golden farmland in the foreground ahead of its path with transmission towers providing scale to this tornado. Photo captured on August 28, 2024 near Mound City, South Dakota.

A photo of a powerful tornado as it churns up dirt and debris after narrowly missing Lincoln, Nebraska on April 26, 2024. The dark contrast of the tornado highlights a harrowing scene with freshly green trees and electrical poles providing perspective.

A photo of a large, wedge shaped tornado as it churns up debris in the town of Minden, Iowa on April 26, 2024. There texture in the clouds show a well formed tornado with debris being picked up on each side of the tornado with fresh, unplanted farmland ahead of its path and a small farmstead next to the tornado.

A photo of a stovepipe shaped tornado naturally lit on the backside by the sunlight as it picks up dirt from fresh Colorado field. This tornado is tilted at an angle from the base of the cloud to where it meets the ground. Photo captured near Yuma, Colorado on August 8, 2023.

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Hunte☈ Fowkes @strmchsrhunterf.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Tornado Tuesday! Let's see 'em! EF-1 tornado on July 14th, 2021 tornado near Jewell, IA.

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Storm Chaser Patrick Makes Games @patrickpineda.net · 22/10/2024

I created a starter pack of storm chasers. If you would like to be added to this starter pack or would like to suggest someone for it, respond or tag me! #wx #wxsky @jordanhallwx.bsky.social go.bsky.app/KMshJUU

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Devin Pitts @devinwxchase.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

The McCook, Nebraska EF2 tornado from 5/17/19 for #TornadoTuesday

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