Twitter user Joshua Eckl filmed a dramatic 21-second time-lapse video of Sunday morning’s thunderstorm as it moved over St. Paul.

He shot the footage from Dayton’s Bluff.

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Another Twitter user likened the video to “something out of that Will Smith movie, Independence Day, just without the flying saucers and aliens … ”

Today's storm looked like something out of that Will Smith movie, Independence Day, just without the flying saucers and aliens… https://t.co/XR8x9oh2Z9 — Courtney Godfrey (@courtneygodfrey) June 11, 2017

Twitter was replete with storm imagery. Here are two of the most notable postings:

A viewer in Hugo sent this absolute stunner of the clouds moments before hail started falling. #mnwx | GALLERY: https://t.co/28TKEz3M8H pic.twitter.com/q2uAX4h5i1 — WCCO – CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) June 11, 2017

Here’s another sinister-looking video of the storm: