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Neha Hirve

Twisters are usually accompanied or preceded by severe thunderstorms, high wlnds, and flash floods like the one seen here.

A supercell hovers over Hays, Kansas, at night.

A chaser watches a storm grow in central Kansas.

Storm chasers set up their photo equipment on a hillock near Hays, Kansas. These hobbyists are on a two-week tornado-chasing tour led by guide Charles Edwards (not pictured), a meteorologist who has been leading groups for more than 20 years.

Leonie Paterson, a storm chaser who traveled from Australia to chase with a tour group, balances on a fence as she photographs a storm in 2019.

A group of storm chasers watches a thunderstorm brew near a small town in central Kansas. These ominous cloud formations lure extreme weather fans to Great Plains each year, but as weather patterns shift, “Tornado Alley” may be moving south.