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Monsoon action near Quartzsite, Arizona. Rainfall miles away can cause flash flooding in clear skies.
Shot Description

Shots of the changing monsoon weather and a flash flood between Yuma, AZ and Quartzsite, AZ along highway 95.

Strong storms with heavy rains developed across southern Illinois on Monday afternoon offering the first real break from the hot weather that lead to a weekend-long excessive heat warning. Stormy weather is expected to continue across the region all week as a front moves into the region and stalls out. While severe weather won’t be a huge concern, heavy rains will, but more than anything, these storms will offer a much welcome break from the heat.
Shot Description

Scene 1-2: POV driving shots in the rains.

Scene 3: POV driving shot following vehicles into street flooding area in Du Quoin.

Scene 4: Pickup truck driving at camera and turning off camera in the heavy falling rain.

Scene 5: Car sitting in the parking lot of a shopping center in the heavy falling rain.

Scene 6: Two vehicles turn through flooded street as heavy rain falls.

Scene 7: Shot of white SUV driving through flood waters.

Scene 8: Wide shot of cars driving through flood waters on US-51 in Du Quoin.

Scene 9: Traffic passing through flood waters.

Scene 10: White truck blasts through water while other cars slowly make their way into the flooding.

Scene 11: Oncoming black car driving down a flooded side street.

Scene 12: Long shot of traffic driving through flood waters.

Scene 13: Shot of traffic driving through flood waters in front of a Hardees.

Scene 14: Panning shot of red car driving through flood waters.

Scene 15: Ameren Illinois utility truck driving through flood waters.

Scene 16: White van driving through flood waters.

Scene 17: Wide shot of the flood waters in front of Hardees.

Scene 18: Semi trucks driving through flood waters.

Scene 19: Shot of shopping center parking lot with standing water.

Scene 20: Shot of shopping cars in standing water.

Scene 21-22 (Franklin County south of Benton, IL): Shots of a semi truck that crashed in the ditch on I-57, accident blamed on weather as the storms moved over the interstate.

Scene 23: Down tree on a road outside of Benton, IL

Clean-up continued across Massac County, Illinois after an early afternoon round of storms hammered the region. Video package shot in the late afternoon/early evening hours as crews arrived on scene to start clearing the debris left behind by straight line winds and an unconfirmed tornado.
Shot Description

Scenes 1-5: A Metropolis Superman standing on the roof of a car smashed under a massive tree chainsaws the tree to get it off the car.

Scene 6: Close shot of smashed car under tree.

Scene 7: Shot of front of car smashed under tree.

Scene 8-9: Shots of inside of car with roof crushed nearly to seats.

Scene 10-16: Shots of crews clearing trees from powerlines that snapped several power poles, knocking out power to most of the town.

Scene 17-20: Shots of lifters taking tree debris from roads.

Scene 21-22: Shot of workers removing down power lines.

Scene 23: Shot of a crosswalk sign crushed beneath tree.

Scene 24: Shot of tree smashing front end of home.

Scene 25: Shot looking down street of down trees and power lines.

Scene 26: A Massac County business with its roof completely gone.

Scene 27: Down sign on US-45 in Massac County.

Scene 28: Part of a roof in a parking lot near the interstate in Massac County.

Scene 29: Damage to a gas station roof near the interstate in Massac County.

Scene 30: Cops directing traffic at an intersection with no power to traffic lights.

Scene 31: Shots of dark intersection with traffic.

Scene 32: Tight shot of traffic light with no power.

Scene 33-34: Shot of a traffic light damaged and hanging by its wiring.

Scene 35: Shot of interstate sign bent over.

Scene 36-37: Humorous shots of Superman and Wonder Woman tourist traps with no heads, meaning they lost their heads with how powerful the storm was (Metropolis)

NWS alerted of rotating storm moving SW to NE across Palm Beach county Florida at 1:08PM. Our PTZ camera placed at the William O. Lockhart Municipal Pier in Lake Worth captured the dramatic video as the storm moved out over the Atlantic ocean. Including timelapse video and real-time clips before, during, and after the storm.

Shot List:
1) Timelapse as storm moves offshore Palm Beach Florida over the Atlantic Ocean.
2,3,4,5) Shot only 30 minutes before of the sunny delightful conditions with people enjoying the pier, water, and beach.
6) Storm approaching the coast.
7) Heavy rain and lightning hits the coast.
8) Heavy rain hits the pier.
9,10) Deserted beach and ocean as storm moves away offshore.

TD #3 has become Tropical Storm Colin. Effects of Colin reached Southwest Florida later afternoon and ramped up significantly after sunset. The video begins with the most recent shots just after sunset as a very heavy squall came ashore Siesta Key Florida bring extremely heavy wind driven rain that quickly flooded roads causing dangerous driving conditions on island roads. At timecode 2:26 and after clips showing conditions prior to sunset as the effects of the growing storm reached the beach, and people were interacting with the windy conditions and high surf late Sunday afternoon.

Shot List:
Tropical Storm Colin affects southwest Florida Sunday evening with intense squalls pounding Siesta Key with wind and rain.

Shot List:
1,2) Squall band nearing Siesta Key Beach just after sunset.
3 – 12) Ten varied shots of heavy wind driven rain from a tropical squall pounding a lighted Siesta Key Beach public area.
14 – 20) Seven shots of vehicles plowing through flooded Beach Rd on Siesta Key at night as heavy rain continues to fall.
21) Traffic in Siesta village and lightning.
— Begin Day light shots —
22) Big dark squall line approaching beach.
23) Wind blows palm tops with beach in background.
24) Boys trying to roll up a tarp in high wind on beach.
25) Beach canopy destroyed by wind.
26) Flags blowing in wind.
27) Swim buoy in high surf.
28) Kids playing with towel in wind like a parachute.
29) People walk through frame w/ high surf in bkground.
30) Young women in high surf.

Extreme footage of storm chasers almost being struck by lightning while chasing the Junction, TX Tornado

Video of the cone tornado crossing Highway 385 east of Junction, TX. Also, AMAZING CLOSE lighting bolt footage with several dramatic strikes next to car.

All footage shot by Juston Drake & Simon Brewer near Junction, TX during evening daylight on May 28, 2016.

Shot List:

1. shot of cone tornado crossing Highway 385 east of Junction, TX

2. pushed-in shot of cone tornado crossing Highway 385 east of Junction TX

3. wide shot of cone tornado and supercell thunderstorm crossing Highway 385 east of Junction TX

4. wide shot of tornadic supercell thunderstorm east of Junction TX

5. DRAMATIC CLOSE lightning strike near Meteorologists Juston Drake & Simon Brewer near Junction TX

6-9. Various DRAMATIC CLOSE lightning strikes in front of camera near Junction TX

10-14. SLOW MOTION SHOTS OF CLOSE LIGHTNING STRIKES near Junction TX

15. POV driving shot of heavy rain and hail on highway with traffic

16-25. Various DRAMATIC “anvil crawler” lightning bolts near Junction TX

1) Damaging tornado 7 miles north of Dodge City. 2) Tornado South of Dodge City 3) Close up of tornado south of Dodge City. 4) Tornado on outskirts of Dodge City as I am driving through town. 5) New tornado forming 8 north of Dodge City

SID: Eric Treece

Severe storms hit southern Illinois Wednesday evening with lightning, flooding, hail, and high winds. Video shot in Marion, Illinois off I-57 in southern Illinois.

Shots 1,2 of storm moving into Marion area.

Shots 3,4 of wall cloud on storm.

Shots 5,6,7 driving through rain and hail.

Shot 8 of hail hitting car pulled over in storm.

Shot 9 of hail bouncing in grass.

Shot 10 of cars pulled over during storm.

Shots 11, 12 of cars under the overpass of I-57 in Marion with tornado sirens blaring in the background.

Shot 13 of Marion police car driving through flood waters.

Shots 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 of traffic driving through street flooding during storm.

Shot 22 of traffic driving through street flooding after storm.

Shots 23, 24, 25, 26 of vivid lightning over Marion.

New video shows a strong tornado develop west of I-35 and west of Wynnewood, OK on Monday afternoon, May 09, 2016.
Clips show tornado in various stages and particularly intense.

Incredible supercell near Wray, Colorado. Violent motion and beautiful atmospherics made for the most photogenic tornado of the year so far!

1. 50 MPH RFD gust front from developing tornado over a field of flowers.
2. Tornado forms just North of downtown Wray with traffic panicking.
3. Tornado continues North of town impacting farms and utilities.
4. Tornado grows and turns red as it hits open fields.

Chasing in northeast Colorado along a triple point, where supercells are likely to form this afternoon. All threats are possible with damaging winds and large hail, as well as tornadoes!

Live Track: http://goo.gl/mw9udq
See all streams LIVE and recorded: http://liveweather.tv

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Severe storms ravaged Oklahoma and Texas on Friday spawning tornadoes, often rain-wrapped, large hail, high winds, and flooding rains. Two supercells in Oklahoma were responsible for most of that state’s isues as they trekked along I-44 into the extreme southern parts of the OKC Metro area. One produced several hard to see tornadoes while the other left hail and flooding behind.

Scene 1-3: POV driving shots in blinding RFD-driven rain just south of the reported tornado near Elgin. Tornado was within a mile as winds of nearly 80mph blow. Third shot passing fire truck after RFD subsided. Chaser retreated south out of storm for reasons of safety.

LAWTON, OKLAHOMA SEGMENT (0:31-3:17)

The supercell to the south of the tornado-producer moved into Lawton with severe hail and rains the flooded streets in town.

Scene 4-5: POV driving shots in Lawton with water starting to fill roads.

Scene 6: Severe hail up to 1.25-inch falling in grass.

Scene 7-8: Cars taking cover at a gas station during hail.

Scene 9: Vehicle turns through street flooding.

Scene 10: POV driving shot of a Lawton road looking like a small river.

Scene 11-20: Various shots of cars driving through street flooding in town.

Scene 21-26: SPRINGER, OKLAHOMA shelf cloud and whale’s mouth shots as the line of storms hits I-35 south of OKC early evening.

Live Track: http://goo.gl/eoGVBW
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SCV stringer Eric Treece is LIVE now on developing severe weather threat in Central Kansas. One Tornado warning has been issued and a Tornado watch is already up. Live storm chasing video.
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Severe storms erupted across northwest Texas leaving hail and street flooding in their wake. This was the first storm of the day as a localized outbreak was expected to develop Sunday evening across Texas and Oklahoma. This cluster of storms formed southwest of Vernon and moved over town dropping nearly 2 inches of rain and 1-inch hail leading to street flooding in town. Vehicles took shelter from the storm under highway overpasses as well as various other structures in town until the storm passed.

Video package shot in Vernon, Texas which is 50 miles west/northwest of Wichita Falls, TX on US-287.

Scenes 1-4: POV driving shots along US-70 heading into Vernon as blinding rain and hail come down.

Scene 5-6: Shots of numerous vehicles under the overpass of US-70 and US-287 in Vernon, completely blocking one side of the road.

Scene 7: High winds blowing a Texas windmill around in a front yard.

Scene 8: Hail bouncing in the grass in front of cacti.

Scene 9: Shot of 1-inch hailstones bouncing feverishly in a front yard.

Scene 10-14: Various shots of heavy hail falling on streets and yards.

Scene 15: Panning shot of a truck with a trailer driving through flood waters on the business route in Vernon.

Scene 16-17: White pickup truck driving through foot-deep flood waters on a neighborhood street in Vernon.

Scene 18: Red car approaching camera in flood waters on a neighborhood street in Vernon.

Scene 19-23: Various shots of vehicles driving through flood waters in Vernon.

AN outbreak of severe weather across central and northern Illinois lead to numerous reports of tornadoes and hail. Many storms formed across northeast Missouri and southeast Iowa and moved across Illinois.

Video package shot near Carthage, IL, which is 30 miles north of Quincy, IL.

Scene 1: Driving shot of approaching supercell.

Scene 2: POV driving shot of a developing tornado and wall cloud near Carthage.

Scene 3-7: POV driving shots as 2-inch hail slams into the car, loud thuds and booms heard as hail hammers vehicle, nearly breaking the windshield.

Scene 8-11: Various shots of hail up to 2.25″ in diameter hitting the area outside of Carthage.

Scene 12: Shot of SUV after hail had passed.

Scene 13-15: Various shots of 2-inch stones in hands, compared to golfball.

Scene 16: Hail on the ground.

Scene 17: Driving through hail fog after the storm.

Scene 18: Shot of updraft tower of hailer.

Tornadic storm moves just south of Little Rock dumping golfball sized hail and sending motorists for cover at a gas station as it came down. Hail covered the ground and lead to dense hail fog.

Shaw is roughly 20 miles southwest of Little Rock.

Several vehicles parked on Lake Geneva during Winterfest broke through the ice and became partially submerged. A few vehicles were able to drive away before the ice broke, but several were unable to be saved. Recovery crews were called in to pull out the remaining vehicles. Large crowds gathered on shore and on the frozen lake to watch the spectacle. No injuries or deaths were reported.

Scene 1 – Lake Geneva police vehicle.
Scene 2 – Slow pan of vehicles that have fallen into the lake.
Scene 3 – Two vehicles in the lake with onlookers behind them.
Scene 4 – Chevy Suburban partially submerged.
Scene 5 – Rescue/recovery crew hooking up a car to be pulled out.
Scene 6 – Toyota Corolla being pulled out.
Scene 7 – Owner of the Corolla trying to remove water from the interior of the car.
Scene 8 – Crowd of onlookers.
Scene 9 – Wide shot of vehicles submerged.
Scene 10 – Recovery crew discussing the next vehicle.
Scene 11 – Recovery crew walking out to submerged Honda CRV.
Scene 12 – Recovery crew hooking up Honda CRV.
Scene 13 – Slow pan from crew on shore to recovery crew hooking up vehicle.

Video Footage of the significant Heavy Snow Storm directly impacting the Twin Cities Metro Area at Peak of Evening Travel Commute.

Footage Includes:

1. Wrecker pulling a stuck SUV out of the interstate ditch after Spin Out.

2. Wrecker Winching on the stuck SUV and getting stuck itself spinning tires!

3. Car doing a complete 360 degree spin out right in front of the camera and than driving down the wrong way backwards!

4. Tow truck pulling car out of ditch.

5. Severe traffic jams with heavy snow and stand still traffic.

6. People wearing face masks walking and struggling to stay standing in the strong winds and blinding snow and even nearly fall over!

7-13 Snow plow POV’s wide and tight from around the Twin Cities during the peak of the storm.

14. Wind driven heavy snow on the landscape.

15. Snow covered Ducks struggling to keep dry in the storm!

During the evening hours of January 31, 2016 a strong pacific storm system moving into California caused heavy snow and sleet bands with thunder to develop west of Flagstaff, Arizona. That National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for the area and is predicting a total snow accumulation of 12-15 inches. This storm system is then posed to move into the country’s mid section, and has many warnings posted in areas from Colorado to Iowa over the next 48 hours.

Shot 1- Arizona DOT advisory board showing storm warning

Shot 2- Arizona DOT advisory board showing storm warning

Shot 3- Snow plows working on Interstate 40

Shot 4- ThunderSnow south of Interstate 40

Shot 5- ThunderSnow south of Interstate 40

Shot 6- ThunderSnow south of Interstate 40

Shot 7- Heavy snowfall in highway lights

Shot 8- Heavy snowfall impacting truck on highway

Shot 9- POV shot driving in snow

Shot 10- POV shot driving in snow

Shot 11- POV shot driving in snow

Shot 12- SOT with local snow plow driver Matt Bowles

Shot 13- SOT with local snow plow driver Matt Bowles

Shot 14- B-roll of plow crew prep

Shot 15- B-roll of plow

Shot 16- B-roll of plow

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Overnight tornadic waterspout came in from the Gulf of Mexico over Siesta Key and into the mainland causing damage. Weather footage during event with and damage. Damage scenes at TC 1:38.
Stringer: Brian Dombrowski http://goo.gl/bg0rqN

Shot List:
1) On north Siesta Key when tornado warning issued. Tornado alert on audio.
2) Green power flash in sky.
3,4) Wind driven rain and weather radio alert on audio on Siesta Key.
5,6) Palm in heavy rain and lightning.
7) US flag in wind rain lightning.
8) Palms in wind heavy rain.
9) 7-11 sign in heavy rain.
10-16) Scenes from Siesta Village on Siesta key. Wind driven rain and road flooding.
17,18) Large tree down in front of home on Meadowood St.
19,20) Lounge chair in road with sign flattened.
21) Border Ln street sign bent over.
22) Road blocked with tree debris with emergency vehicle behind.
23,24) Road block with tree debris and heavy rain.
25) Sheet metal debris wrap on street lamp post.
26) Misc debris in road.
27) Border Ln blocked with debris.
28) Mailbox in drive way.
29,30) structure debris and power lines down.
31) Structural debris in driveway.
31,32) Power lines down 2nd angle.
33) Sheet metal hanging from power line.
34) Misc debris in road.
35) Utility truck on US41 working damaged power lines.

Biggest lake effect storm of the season causes cars to disappear in whiteout conditions and buries a town: Powerful lake effect snow storm buries Baldwinsville NY under a foot of snow. Residents and crews try to dig out. Footage of snow blowers, snow plows, heavy snow falling, neighborhoods buried, dangerous driving conditions, and snow measurements.

All footage shot during morning and afternoon daylight on January 13, 2016 in Baldwinsville, NY.

Shot List:

1. pushed-in shot of “Baldwinsville” sign with heavy snow falling in Baldwinsville, NY

2. pushed-in shot of man walking in heavy snow in downtown Baldwinsville, NY

3-6. various shots of residents trying to clear snow with snow blowers with heavy snow falling in Baldwinsville, NY

7. shot of snow plows trying to clear snow-covered roads with poor visibility in Baldwinsville, NY

8. shot of car and snow plow disappearing in whiteout in Baldwinsville, NY

9. pushed-in POV shot of snow plows attempting to clear snow-covered roads with heavy snow falling in Baldwinsville, NY

10. POV shot of snow plow clearing road outside Baldwinsville, NY

11-16. various shots of trees covered in deep snow in Baldwinsville, NY

17 & 18. pushed-in shots of cars buried in deep snow in Baldwinsville, NY

19. pushed-in shot of mail truck covered in snow in Baldwinsville neighborhood

20. shots of over a foot of snow measured with yardstick ruler in Baldwinsville, NY

21 & 22. shots of house and yard buried in deep snow in Baldwinsville, NY

23 & 24. pushed-in shots of traffic on deep snow-covered roads with heavy snow falling in Baldwinsville, NY

25 & 26. POV shots of heavy snow falling in neighborhood buried in deep snow in Baldwinsville, NY

27. POV shot of traffic on snow-covered roads in Baldwinsville, NY neighborhood with heavy snow falling

28. POV shot of powerful lake effect snow band from the south with clear skies overhead (looking northeast toward Baldwinsville, NY)

Two Time-lapse video clips from the Miami tower cam 770 ft above the port of Miami.

1) The first shows cruise ships arriving before dawn and turning around in the main turning basin before docking at the terminal.

2) The second shows the cold front coming through with a deck of low clouds descending down and obscuring the camera and even go below the camera mounting level. They eventually clear out revealing the port area again.

Water along the Meramec River in the southern parts of the St. Louis crested early Thursday morning and receded nearly three feet by nightfall. However, flooding was extreme in the downtown area flooding out numerous homes and businesses. Some structures had flooding that only left their roofs showing above the water.

Video package shot in the downtown area of Fenton near MO-30 which remained closed as of Thursday night.

Scene 1-2: Shots of Fenton city sign in flood waters.

Scene 3: Two buildings with flood waters rising up to their second stories.

Scene 4-5: Shots of a downtown intersection with water nearly up to the traffic lights.

Scene 6: A building roof sticking out of the flood waters as the rest of the building is completely flooded.

Scene 7: A police car sits in front of a barricaded flooded road.

Scene 8: Gas station and bank sign in flood waters.

Scene 9: Wide shot of flooded bank.

Scene 10: Medium shot of flood waters halfway up bank front door and windows.

Scene 11: Tight shot of bank door showing sign alerting customers to its closing due to emergency.

Scene 12-13: Medium and tight shot of bank ATM in flood waters.

Scene 14-15: Wide and tight shot of Dairy Queen with a girl pushing water out the front door.

Scene 16: A vehicle in the flood waters and all you can see is the roof.

Scene 17-18: Medium and tight shot of submerged SUV in flood waters.

Scene 19: BBQ restaurant in flood waters.

Scene 20: Tight shot of BBQ restaurant.

Scene 21: Backside of BBQ restaurant.

Scene 22: Shot of animal groomer and vet in flood waters.

Scene 23: Tighter shot of pet hospital.

Scene 24: Shot of animal hospital with water nearly overtaking the door.

Scene 25: Business with water halfway up the windows.

Scene 26: Shot of business and house with water halfway up the first story.

Scene 27: Wide shot of several homes and a van in very high flood waters.

Scene 28: Tight shot of submerged van and house in flood waters.

Scene 29: Shot looking down the street at van and several homes.

Scene 30: Shot of house with nearby street light.

Scene 31: Shot of house with water halfway up first floor.

Scene 32: Wide shot of house and the street is it next to.

Scene 33-34: Medium and tight shot of van parked in front of yellow house, both in flood waters.

Scene 35: Grey house in flood waters.

Scene 36: Mobile homes in flood waters.

Scene 37: Orange house in flood waters.

The powerful winter storm hit the Iowa and Minnesota state line late this afternoon and brought near blizzard conditions to the area. Footage shot in Freeborn County MN and Worth County, Iowa.

Clip 1 Blowing snow as a Worth County Iowa snow plow drives towards the camera.

Clip 2 Just over the board in Freeborn County, Blowing snow and road sign pointing south to Des Moines, Iowa.

Clip 3 – 4 Very low visibility with blowing snow and the sign pointing to Des Moines.

Clip 5 Side camera shot while passing a snow plow on Interstate 35 just north of the boarder in Minnesota.

Clip 6 & 7 Cars on the side of the road in Minnesota at the junction of I90 and I35

Clip 8 Traffic on Interstate 35 at the State Line of Minnesota and Iowa.

Clip 9 Traffic heading north on Interstate 35 just north of the boarder.

Clip 10 MNDot Plows just north of the Minnesota state line.

Clip 11 Trees and snow in Minnesota north of the state line.

Clip 12 Blowing snow covering Interstate 35 just south of the state line in Iowa.

Clip 13 Truck in the ditch near Twin Lakes MN on I-35.

Clip 14 Plowing snow in I-35 north of Twin Lakes MN

Clip 15 Blowing Snow in Iowa just south of the state line.

Clip 16 MN State Trooper at the State Line watching traffic.

Clip 17 Blowing snow covering I-35 at the just south of the MN IA state line.

Clip 18-20 MNDot Snow plow near Twin Lakes, MN on I35

Clip 21- 22 Stop sign covered in snow near Twin Lakes, MN