Making a Storm Effect

Step 1: Create a new document and press D, X to reset and swap your colors. Fill your document with black by pressing Ctrl-Backspace

Step 2: Go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare and set Brightness 100%, 50-300mm Zoom Lens Type

Step 3: Go to Filter>Sketch>Chrome and use default settings (Detail 4, Smoothness 7)

Step 4: Go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and use these settings:

Step 5: Press Ctrl-J to duplicate this layer and go to Edit>Transform>Rotate 180^o to rotate this layer 180^o

change its blending mode to Screen

Step 6: Go to Layer>Flatten Image to merge all the layers then go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation and use below settings to color our image

Step 7: Use the Elliptical Marquee tool with 10 pixels Feather to make a selection area around our "storm"

Then press Ctrl-Shift-I to invert the selection and press Delete to erase it. You can see the result below:

So we completed this tutorial with just some filter tools and common techniques!