Are these rare photos of hurricane katrina? or bogus?
Posted by: mozey on: December 5, 2007
Lets start with the meme first! 
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I got these pictures in an email, so i wonder how i can validate its authenticity. PLEASE if you know anything about these pictures, ie of they are real or they cant be. Please feel free to comment on them.
None the less if i was living anywhere around there, it would be damn scary.
70 Responses to "Are these rare photos of hurricane katrina? or bogus?"
February 25, 2008 at 5:42 pm
these pictures could be real or fake but some of them look kinda real1
February 29, 2008 at 2:27 pm
so fake so fake one theys picture look like a torndo how could they lie.
March 27, 2008 at 1:48 pm
These are not pictures of Hurricane Katrina. They are tornados and other rare cloud formations. The link below is to Snopes.com. Snopes is a great website to go and check the validity of any email propaganda you might get. I encourage you all to book mark it and use it when ever you get an email like the one listed above. No I dont run the site but I use it at least once a week.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp
April 23, 2008 at 7:42 am
These are not pictures of Hurricane Katrina. They are tornados and other rare cloud formations. The link below is to Snopes.com. Snopes is a great website to go and check the validity of any email propaganda you might get. I encourage you all to book mark it and use it when ever you get an email like the one listed above. No I dont run the site but I use it at least once a week.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp
June 10, 2008 at 9:09 pm
NOT KATRINA…do you think a storm that covered SEVERAL REGIONS would be photographed from end to end in just one camera lense???
i think not
July 5, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Photoshop? Saw a waterspout once. Never seen a twister. Been through hurricane Freddie danny, Ivan Camille and Katrina. They all hit land at night eccept Katrina. Got to see it in the daytime but it didn’t look like the pics.
August 21, 2008 at 2:11 pm
As a life long native of New Orleans Louisiana, I’ve been through MANY hurricaines, including Katrina, and NONE of them look like that!! Definately pics of tornadoes. During a hurricane it rains way too much to even see the clouds clearly like that….definately bogus!! Hurricane Katrina hit land around 6 o’clock in the morning, not late in the afternoon, believe me I was there!!
August 27, 2008 at 7:26 pm
These are not photos of Katrina. These are all pictures of thunderstorms, none of which are associated with Katrina. In fact, the majority of them are the work of storm chaser Mike Hollingshead, and his website is http://www.extremeinstability.com.
He lives in Nebraska.
August 28, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Considering what a single Hurricane can do, after making landfall, for all wee know, some of those pictures could very well have been spun up from Hurricane Katrina’s leftovers.
Hurricane Andrew caused more devastation spinning up tornadoes, then it’s original winds and rain when it hit Florida.
Seen here. http://www.sptimes.com/2002/webspecials02/andrew/
Also used in (Category 6, Day Of Destruction.)
They use many pictures taken from real life, including live video of real storm chasers. (Not in Twister.)
They used some in (Cat 7) as well.
Some places are easy to pick out, with no better quality then a crappy VHS copy of a storm.. Much easier to pic those out.
Denny.
August 28, 2008 at 8:29 pm
BTW, forgot.. I only got a D- in weather science because of spelling errors and rushed projects. My teacher told me I would’ve gotten straight As if it hadn’t been for that..
Denny.
September 5, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Again… These are NOT photos of Katrina.
Click the link in my previous post and look at his images. In fact, the guy occasionally talks about how it pisses him off that people are using his work and falsifying where the images came from.
September 7, 2008 at 12:43 am
They are all so totally fake. Hurricanes can not produce lightning for one thing. The one with the F5 tornado spawning is also fake because if a hurricane would have produced it the cell would be extreemly strong, which means lots of rain and wind, neither in this photo. Dark clouds like these would not be able to be seen because they would be pouring rain all over you.
September 9, 2008 at 8:39 am
Those pictures are so bogus.. the color is all wrong… so just that tells u they have been manipulated. Most show clear skies in the background. granted there are tonadoes in hurricanes… I have lived thru them… but in a hurricane…there is no blue skies behind them… except in the eye… For instance in the last picture… New Orleans, St. Bernard, Ninth Ward, the land does not look like that.. green crops of some kind growing… that picture looks like the midwest. In one of the pictures.. it shows hills in the landscape…. no hills in New Olreans… all these pictures are fake about katrina… weird cloud formations yes.. and probably some have been manipulated as well… thanks.. Victoria… a native New Orleanian
September 11, 2008 at 9:02 pm
thay are all pictures of supercell thunderstorms. the first two are of a wall cloud, the second, third, sixth and seventh are all large rotating mezocyclones produced because of the supercells. fouth, obviously a developing tornado. and the fifth just a picture of a strong thunderstorm with some internal cloud lightning.
September 19, 2008 at 8:13 pm
those are tornadoes, ifit were a hurricane it would seem muuuuch larger.
And hurricanes begin over water, and none of those are near a cost. =P
September 23, 2008 at 12:18 am
Hun these are tornado formations.Sorry but this not Hurricane katrina
October 9, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Hello? Did you actually notice these are TORNADOES? not hurricanes? If so, please note
November 21, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I’ve lived in coastal areas and on the wide open plains. These photos all look real, but they are definitely really superb photos. Most photographers are not Storm Chasers, and most people who happen to see a tornado up close are not professional photographers. These look very professional.
Photo #1 (after the animation) is a front moving into the area. Notice the smooth, fairly straight line of cloud walls. You are seeing the cool air colliding into the warm air. It will dump rain before it’s over. If the colors are accurate, the greenish tint indicates tornadoes are possible.
Photos #2 and #3 are of very large (wide) tornadoes. I’d hate to be in its path.
Photo #4 is the shape of a typical tornado. We see a lot of those in Oklahoma.
Photo #5 is lightning in a thunderstorm.
The last two I’m not sure about. You can see some really good videos of lightning and other weather at YouTube.com. Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtJkRofuJz0, lightning from space. Then search for lightning or tornado (tormenta, in Spanish) for more. Fascinating stuph!
December 3, 2008 at 6:00 am
It can’t be real because who on earth would risk there lives to take a picture that close to the Hurricane?
December 4, 2008 at 1:51 am
Ok, all the pictures here are real except for the first and the sixth. Whether they are from hurricane katrina or not I don`t know but they are real pictures.
December 5, 2008 at 11:38 am
These are hurricanes cuz of the size, tornados are thiner and faster
December 27, 2008 at 10:42 pm
the sixth picture is real, its just zoomed in on the choppy clouds, and lightning is taking place, hence the blue/white light coming through.
Check out the 7th picture, its the same cloud but zoomed out.
And this is NOT Katrina, its a tornado with a huge thunderstorm, its very much often they are combined, as they both consist with warm and cold air.
Katrina was a hurricane and was rarely captured with digital cameras and other earth based devices, as she was too powerful for humans to withstand the ground. They do have some of stormy clouds and mist from those who took shots miles away from the hurricane.
The only popular ones are mostly satellite images.
(: baaaaa
January 6, 2009 at 4:15 pm
ooohmygoshh.
they look dead real. this was either made by a pure science techno guy, or just some other pictures.
January 13, 2009 at 6:14 am
they do not look real at all, fake manipulation… prolly cut and paste on a clear sky field pic
February 7, 2009 at 6:41 am
Half of you are tards. These are all real and none are manipulated, other than the first. Just some nice exposures.
And they aren`t hurricanes either, they`re supercell thunderstorms. Really, whats wrong with you people? Didn`t you pay attention in science class?
February 18, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I dont care whether they are real or fake they are amazing pictures!!!
March 4, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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March 10, 2009 at 11:25 am
lies these are not pictures of hurricane katrina lies lies lies lies
March 11, 2009 at 12:38 pm
i would be so scared to go near ne of that…i would shit myself!!!
March 19, 2009 at 6:59 pm
these pics are so gay!! you can tell they are fake!! poser
March 25, 2009 at 5:02 pm
my parents lived near there and said they were freken scared when the tornados came
April 10, 2009 at 9:05 pm
That is really serious just think about how many people was killed and how it destoryed farms,crops and most thing’s, i feel really sorry for thoose people who suffered and who died rest in piece my friend’s.
April 17, 2009 at 6:57 am
Whats funny is how many people respond to say they are fake or asking whether they are real without reading the million replies before them with the answers…
April 24, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I think the first like 2 were from Katrina, the other ones are thunderstorm cells pretty much ready to spit out a tornado, the rural area would lead me to believe that most of them are not from Katrina.
April 27, 2009 at 5:01 am
These pictures are quite real. My uncle took them just before he left the state when Katrina was rolling in.
April 28, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Im from louisiana, and i saw katrina, and i can tell you…………………….THAT THOSE PICTUERS ARE NOT FROM KATRNIA.
I was there, I saw katrina, beside, would i lie to you?
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dont answer that.
May 12, 2009 at 4:45 am
Crop below cloud is much to immature for Aug. 29 in Mississippi. Most likely April or May in Midwest.
May 15, 2009 at 4:50 pm
These pictures are real, I was dispatched down to Louisiana from Michigan for relief work and saw things I hope no one ever witnesses. I think they might be off Rita not Katrina though.
May 19, 2009 at 1:12 am
i’ve never been in a hurrican….i live in alaska…soo yah…but
i fell really bad for all of the people who loose family in these things!!!
i would be sad to if i lost family to!!!!
soo…..GOOD LUCK OUT THERE!! LOVE U BY!! <3
May 19, 2009 at 1:17 am
BTW….HURRICANS ARE REALL!!!! U PEOPLE NEED TO PAY ATENTION IN SCIENCE CALSS!!!!yes they are supercell thunderstorms!!!! duh!!!!!
have a nice day!!! <3 =D =P
love u…k8leen!!!!!!
May 21, 2009 at 12:25 am
some of them might be katrina… but some of them are definitely tornadoes, not hurricanes. either way, they’re awesome depictions of nature.
May 23, 2009 at 6:22 pm
These pictures are … well amazing. Dangerous but beautiful. Migh sund strange and crazy but hey its me. These are definately real pictures and not fakes. None have been tampered with except the first. 
Ovbiously.
I agree with May they are supercell. I only know because my geography teacher, Mr Tucker, is teaching us about hurricanes, tornados, supercell thunderstorms etc etc.
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February 25, 2008 at 3:55 pm
this is wack yo