Here in NC we get a lot of big, powerful, fast-moving storms. The clouds seem as dense as forests and can be very scary. Last night this storm appeared over my house, quickly forming into some weird and beautiful shapes; I was on the porch eating dinner and snapped a few pictures. The next thing I knew, my neighborhood’s alert system went crazy with people posting “Tornado spotted!!”. It is a cumulus that kind of rolled into that shape, not a wind vortex. It’s not going to suck any cows up any time soon.

The second image was the storm rolling in, and the last is a more fanciful version. The first two are not retouched, these are as-shot on an iPhone 6.