You could take the previous scene (minus the sun, it'll be too distracting)and replace the black tornadoes with humongous columns of dim light falling from the sky. These columns would be all around you, some closer than others, and will be absolutely tremendous - it would be like they're holding the sky. They will fall into the ocean, and when they hit, their tremendous heat will cause the ocean to boil, causing enormous fumes that look like fog or cloud blankets to wrap themselves around the base of each column - it's far away, so you can't actually percieve their movement, they seem frozen in time, and very solid (if you seen a volcano eruption on TV, for example, you'd know how solid can smoke, dust and similar stuff can appear from a distance) You could imagine the effect that the light from the columns would have when illuminating those fumes from the inside...

I pulled all that from my imagination, btw (it's a scene I envision a long time ago... those columns of light are actually energy beams from spaceships that are attacking the planet). I didn't yet have the fortune of dreaming about them. Just use your imagination, you can think about intersting stuff too