Tornado Photos Racing Whirlwinds
Spain: Elmar Backhaus photographed this small tornado out at sea, from the beach at Sitges, south of Barcelona, in September 2005.
The Pacific: In March 2004 this tornado appeared for over five minutes between the Solomon Islands and Fauro. SPIEGEL ONLINE reader Stephan Schuth took this image at a distance of 3 kilometers.
Germany: Meno Schnapauff from Hamburg took this image of a tornado from a plane, flying at a hight of 600 meters, above Brokdorf in Germany.
Australia: Ulrich Bauer from Munich was in the Australian Outback in 1989, not far from the small town of Mount Isa. Suddenly this small whirlwind appeared. "It came directly at us and then disappeared right in front of us," he recalled. "It didn't seem to have a lot of power."
Mallorca: Evelyn Bjick from Hanover took this picture from her holiday apartment in Cala Ratjada, on the east coast of the island of Mallorca. She remembers that "it was a bit of scary experience."
Bremen, Northern Germany:. A view from Karin Schlawe's kitchen window. On the 27 March at 5.30 pm she took a picture of this thick swirling cloud. Later that evening a tornado hit nearby Hamburg-Harburg, killing two people.
The Seychelles: SPIEGEL ONLINE reader Achim Mende sent this image of a tornado above the tropical waters near the island of Praslin in the Indian Ocean.
The Baltic Sea: Oliver Brandmüller from Berlin was sailing with friends east of the Danish island of Falster when this tornado appeared. He recalled the exact date: September, 11 2001, "shortly after this we received an SMS from friends about the events in New York."
Hamburg: The tornado that hit the German city on March 27, 2006 and caused the deaths of two crane operators. This photograph was taken by Martin Kunkel.
Cambodia: This picture of a tornado near the Tonle Sap lake was taken by Alexander von Sturmfeder from Berlin in 2005.
