Extreme Weather Photographer’s Decades-Long Tornado Tour (Photo Gallery)

Documenting record-setting storms for more than 20 years, Jim Reed is a premier storm chaser and extreme weather photographer. His work has been published by National Geographic and Discovery Channel.

A rare, close-range photo of a non-supercellular tornado, filled with swirling dirt, grinding across a farm road in western Kansas on May 8, 2008. Extreme weather photographer Jim Reed captured this image within 150 feet of the twister. The award-winning image is the official photo of the 2012 Extreme Weather Congress in Hamburg, Germany. Jim Reed

Documenting record-setting storms for more than 20 years, Jim Reed is a premier storm chaser and extreme weather photographer. His work has been published by National Geographic and Discovery Channel.

An unmarked Kansas state Trooper throws his car into reverse to escape the path of a non-supercellualr tornado (also known as a landspout tornado) near Pretty Prairie, Kansas, on April 11, 2002. It was the first Kansas twister of the season. This image is a composite created from a high-resolution transparency (shot by Jim Reed) and a low-resolution video grab (shot by Katherine Bay). Except for overlapping the two medias, no manipulation has occurred. Distance, size, shape, and color are authentic. Jim Reed