Early in the evening of April 9, 1947, a thunderstorm produced this small tornado at White Deer, Texas. Little did the lucky photographer know, he may have captured the only images of a tornado from this storm. After he snapped this and a few other shots, night quickly descended over the High Plains. Three hours later, cloaked by darkness, a 1.8-mile-wide tornado from the same storm slashed through Woodward, Okla., killing 107 people.

NOTE: The full story of the Woodward tornado appears in In the Shadow of the Tornado