Where can I find free pictures of tornado damage?
We have some public domain images of typical examples of F0 through F5 tornado damage linked from this FAQ’s F-scale page. Otherwise, public-domain tornado damage pictures are scattered among various National Weather Service websites. Because web addresses change so often, we don’t maintain a listing of them here; but you can start your search at this map of all NWS websites. Browse around for damage survey photos in severe weather and tornado event sections of local NWS office pages; and please make sure the photos are not copyrighted before using them. If there are any doubts, or to get permission to use copyrighted material, e-mail the webmaster at that office. If you want hardcopies for research projects, the best bet is to download and print public-domain images from a high-quality color printer. Even when using public-domain images, you should give proper credit to the source. Historical archives at local and college libraries might have public-domain hardcopy prints of historica
