The photographers who got close enough to capture these images have nerves of solid steel. The string of tornadoes that ripped through Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska over the weekend produced these amazing images.
A tornado makes its way through farmlands near Rush Center, Kansas, during the third day of severe weather and multiple tornado sightings, April 14, 2012.
(Reuters / Gene Blevins)
Huge tornadic super cells shoot out lightning bolts in the skies near the area of Apache, Oklahoma, April 13, 2012.
(Reuters / Gene Blevins)
A tornado forms and touches down north of Soloman, Kan., Saturday, April 14, 2012.
(AP / Orlin Wagner)
A severe thunder storm shoots out lightning across the skies of Benkelman, Nebraska April 12, 2012.
(Reuters / Gene Blevins)