Premium Weather & Climate Stock Footage
Since 1993, StormStock® has specialized in premium weather and climate cinematography for feature films, television, documentaries, commercials, advertising and streaming. Created by filmmakers for filmmakers, our archive features authentic, professionally captured imagery backed by our AI Free Since '93™ guarantee.
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Ultra-high-resolution 8K weather and climate cinematography for productions requiring exceptional detail and future-ready image quality.
The world's first collection of authentic 16K weather and climate footage, delivering extraordinary detail for premium productions.
Authentic imagery illustrating climate change, environmental impacts, extreme weather, drought, flooding, and changing landscapes.
Beautiful fair weather clouds, blue skies, time-lapse sequences, and peaceful atmospheric scenes for cinematic storytelling.
Towering supercells, mammatus, shelf clouds, rotating storms, and dramatic skies filmed in stunning cinematic quality.
Wildfires, firefighting operations, emergency responders, smoke, and disaster response captured by professional cinematographers.
Heavy rainfall, flash flooding, urban flooding, storm surge, and water-related weather impacts from real events.
Everything from pea-sized hail to destructive giant hailstones falling during severe thunderstorms.
Powerful tropical cyclones featuring destructive winds, storm surge, rain, flooding, and dramatic coastal conditions.
Historic Hurricane Dorian footage documenting one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded.
Record-breaking flooding, rescues, storm surge, and catastrophic rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.
High winds, coastal flooding, storm surge, and the destructive impact of Hurricane Ian.
Extreme winds, flying debris, storm surge, and powerful hurricane conditions captured in the field.
Powerful Category 4 hurricane footage featuring destructive winds, coastal damage, and severe weather.
The world's premier collection of Hurricane Katrina landfall footage, including rare Super 35mm motion picture film.
Violent Category 5 hurricane footage documenting devastating winds, structural damage, and coastal destruction.
Historic footage of Hurricane Sandy's flooding, storm surge, and powerful impacts along the East Coast.
Spectacular cloud-to-ground lightning, intracloud lightning, thunderstorms, and cinematic time-lapse sequences.
America's Great Plains, agricultural landscapes, wheat fields, ranches, and weather over rural communities.
Clean sky backgrounds and atmospheric plates ideal for visual effects, compositing, and CGI integration.
Snowfall, blizzards, ice storms, winter landscapes, and severe cold-weather conditions.
Towering waves, rough oceans, coastal storms, and dramatic maritime weather.
Beautiful sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, eclipses, and celestial atmospheric imagery.
Authentic Super 35mm motion picture film scanned in 4K for productions seeking the timeless cinematic film look.
Cinematic tornado footage ranging from rope tornadoes to violent EF5 tornadoes filmed at close range.
Volcanic eruptions, lava flows, ash clouds, and dramatic geological events captured in cinematic detail.
Powerful wind events, blowing dust, trees bending, flying debris, and atmospheric motion.
Featured Productions & Historic Moments
StormStock filmmaker and founder Martin Lisius films severe storms on first-ever 16K video. (16K)
Kansas tornado sucks up cows and blows farm apart. (HD)
All hell breaks loose as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. (HD, Super 35mm to 4K)
Acura MDX spec commercial made entirely with weather content from StormStock. (6K, Super 35mm to 4K)
Man films approaching tornado from his front door, chases it down street, helps rescue neighbor. (DV)
The StormStock Team intercepts the largest tornado ever-recorded. (HD)
F5 tornado narrowly misses Texas prison. (DV)
Family survives in a tornado safe room built by father. (4K)
Massive "mothership" SUPERCELL approaches the Red River. (8K)
StormStock Team films high water search during the height of Hurricane Katrina. (HD, 35mm to 4K)
Tornado Video - Tornado tears through wind farm. (HD)
StormStock photographer films Hurricane Irma storm surge overtaking condo. (HD)
Hurricane Katrina winds lash through traffic lights, 35mm. (35mm to 4K video)
Roof blows roof from house during Hurricane Michael. (4K)
Electric power lines arc and create "power flash" in high winds. (4K)
StormStock photographer films tornado-like flying debris during Hurricane Charley. (DV)
StormStock team rides on rescue boat to save citizens from Hurricane Harvey flooding. (4K)
Tornado lifts room from house. (DV)
Amazing up-close view of April 27, 2011 Cullman, Alabama F4 Tornado - Super Outbreak. (HD)
New York residents flee from rising waters as Hurricane Sandy approaches. (HD)
Geysers of water shoot into the air on the Galveston sea wall as Hurricane Ike nears. (HD, 35mm to 4K)
Lightning illuminates dark, swirling clouds. (4K)
Wakinyan - a short film by Martin Lisius. (4K)
Storm chasers watch in amazement as “cinnamon swirl” tornado passes nearby. (4K)
Hurricane Katrina rips town apart. (DV)
Crazy Tornado Footage of houses and cars flying through the air from Pampa, Texas. (SD)
Texas twister strikes farm. (4K)
StormStock Team films deadliest tornado in South Dakota history. (35mm to 4K)
Monster EF5 "Interstate 44" Oklahoma Tornado of May 3, 1999. (DV)
Man proposes to fiancée in front of approaching tornado. (4K)
StormStock Team films fastest flying debris ever-recorded in tornado lab. (4K)
Storms on Super 35mm by Martin Lisius. (35mm film)