Tornado season: extreme weather in the US – in pictures
Lightning streaks across the sky during an immense storm that produced hail the size of golf balls in Moorcroft, WyomingPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA supercell thunderstorm in Sanford, KansasPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA bolt of lightning cleaves through a supercell thunderstorm in Broken Bow, OklahomaPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft Media
A supercell thunderstorm creates the classic stack-of-plates formation in Clinton, OklahomaPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA supercell thunderstorm near the town Duncan, OklahomaPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaHorizontal lightning shoots from the centre of a supercell thunderstorm near the town of Boise City, OklahomaPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA picturesque storm formation during this year's tornado season in the United StatesPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA skinny tornado near South Haven, KansasPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA storm formation near the Devil's Tower National Monument in Lightning Flats, WyomingPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA supercell thunderstorm illuminates the sky in Sanford, Kansas. The storm started at 2pm and was still raging at 10pm that nightPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaLightning strikes a field during a storm that produced hail the size of softballs (12-inch circumference) in Julesburg, ColoradoPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaLightning emanates from the heart of a supercell thunderstorm in Pawnee Grasslands, ColoradoPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft MediaA supercell thunderstorm near Broken Bow, OklahomaPhotograph: Roger Hill/Barcroft Media
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