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Nebraska’s funnel cloud serves as an epic backdrop for wedding photos
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Nebraska’s funnel cloud serves as an epic backdrop for wedding photos

The usual wedding photos may include a couple’s first kiss, first dance, and pictures with family. But for Austin and Hailey Bode, some of the images from their wedding day also include an unusual sight: a tornado funnel.

The couple married on July 20 in Norfolk, Nebraska, coincidentally the same weekend that the disaster movie “Twisters” hit theaters. They knew thunderstorms were in the forecast, the couple’s photographer, Alyssa Wallace, told USA TODAY, but so far that day they had only seen some rain, which is often considered good luck on a wedding day.

After the ceremony, the wedding party headed out for photographs, some of them in downtown Norfolk, about 115 miles northwest of Omaha.

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Wallace said a groomsman pointed out the funnel cloud to them and their first thought was to stop the streetcar they were riding on and take some photos.

“I was partly excited to see the tornado myself, but then it clicked: I’m at a wedding and I have a bride and groom here,” Wallace said. “I said, ‘Hurry up, we have to get this picture!’ I caught them just in time to get the picture.”

Newlyweds Austin and Hailey Bode pose in front of a tornado funnel on their wedding day, July 20, 2024, in Norfolk, Nebraska.Newlyweds Austin and Hailey Bode pose in front of a tornado funnel on their wedding day, July 20, 2024, in Norfolk, Nebraska.

Newlyweds Austin and Hailey Bode pose in front of a tornado funnel on their wedding day, July 20, 2024, in Norfolk, Nebraska.

Wallace said the image of the couple posing with the funnel cloud in the background was a “symbol of their love,” with the two looking at each other amid the weather chaos around them.

Fortunately, the storm didn’t disrupt the rest of Bode’s wedding day. Wallace said the funnel cloud was far enough away that no sirens were heard and it was “pretty quiet.” Some people she spoke to later had no idea a tornado had even been sighted.

The National Weather Service in Omaha, which provides weather forecasts for the region, recorded several reports of funnel clouds in the Norfolk area on July 20. However, it was not confirmed that any of the clouds had reached the ground – that is when they officially become tornadoes.

And after Wallace posted some pictures on her social media, they started going viral.

“It was an incredible experience for me,” she said. “Even as a little girl, I was fascinated by tornadoes.”

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Couple poses in front of Nebraska tornado on wedding day

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