They are amazing photos but they are not of a hurricane. They are supercell and tornado images taken by a guy called Mike Hollingshead in Nebraska 2004.
Over the years they have shown up purporting to be various big storm photos, more recently Katrina photos and even a storm near Bunbury, Australia.
You can see the real details for the images here:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dyn...%5Fprofile.htm