There was a brief but beautiful display of the Aurora Borealis over Minnesota that started just before midnight and lasted for about a half an hour. This time lapse footage was shot just north of the city of Saint Cloud, MN that shows the Northern Lights dancing across the sky on the horizon after the final twilight from the sun faded after 11pm.
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Just before 1 p.m. on Monday, there was a series of loud explosions and flying debris from the World War II ship the USS Mohawk as it slowly descended to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. It took just three minutes to sink below the water line and shortly after Scuba Divers were in the water.
The USS Mohawk was scuttled 28 miles off of the coast of Sanibel Island, Florida to become a brand new artificial reef for divers and anglers as well as a WWII Veterans memorial.
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Part1 – HD video of TS Debby heavy rain & high surf and people with umbrellas on beach and people in water. Siesta Key Beach in Sarasota FL.
Part 2. of the video from 2:13 to the end shows TS Debby traffic.Part 2. TS Debby traffic in road flooding on Siesta Key. Heavy rain floods Beach Rd on Siesta Key, Sarasota FL, as rain bands from TS Debby reach the SW FL coast line.
HD 1080p.
Severe storms hammer northern Kansas on Thursday bringing heavy rains, damaging winds, and some hail. Video package shot around the town of Norton, Kansas in Norton County (north of Wakenney).
Video package opens up with vivid lightning strikes as storms move across north Kansas. Various lightning and cloud shots. Transitions to shots during the storm of heavy rain and very strong winds. (two scenes accidentally repeated after cloud shots).
Package then sets up 2-minutes into video in Norton documenting a lot of the wind damage that occurred thanks to gusts over 70mph. Shots include several people moving part of a roof from a parking lot, people picking up tree branches, a semi truck that was blown well off the highway into a nearby field (yet remained upright). Other shots of tree and fence damage in Norton.
Drive of the semi was not injured, but said it was the ride of his life. He was westbound out of Norton when we was driven off the highway.
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A supercell thunderstorm develops over southeast Colorado and literally sits still for nearly two hours dropping copious amounts of hail, reported up to 2-inches in diameter, and prompting several hours of severe thunderstorm warnings as the storm sat and dumped for nearly two hours.
Scenes 1-3 open as storm chaser approaches the severe-warned storm on US-160 just west of Pritchett. Shots of blinding dust shot from POV.
Scenes 4-5 are establishing shots of the storm a few miles north of Pritchett with vivid lightning strikes in both scenes.
Scene 6 includes high winds and rain with Pritchett city limits sign in the foreground.
Scene 7 is a shot of a ragged cloud over the town as the storm unleashes the hail to the north.
Scene 8 is a shot of a truck driving through Pritchett in the rain.
Scenes 9-15 are shots of hail falling several miles north of Pritchett. Hail up to golfball size falling in the nearby field looking like missiles coming down. Other shots of hail covering the ground as storm rages on.
Scene 16 is POV shot as storm ends with hail covering the roads and having to drive it previous ruts to move.
Scene 17 is shot of local sheriff coming up the hail covered road north of Pritchett.
Scene 18 is a shot of a vehicle on the hail covered road.
Scenes 19-22 include shot of hail covering the road like heavy snow.
Scene 23 includes a ruler stuck in the hail measuring it to a depth of 3-inches.
Secene 24-27 include shots of hail measured up to golfball size, hail against ruler, compared with golfball, held in hand.
Scene 28 is a shot of chaser holding golfball hail with the animated radar image in the background.
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The High Point fire is burning west of Fort Collins Colorado in the residential areas of Paradise Park, Stove Prairie, and Buckhorn Canyon. Fire was last estimated at 3000 acres and continues to grow rapidly with the high temps and high wind in the area. Local temperature at the filming site was 97 degrees with a 20-25 mph wind from the South West. New evacuations have been ordered for Stove Prairie Road north along County Road 27 to Highway 14, east along Highway 14 to approximately mile marker 111, southeast to Rist Canyon Fire Station 1, then back west to to include Wilderness Ridge Way, Rist Creek Road, Spring Valley Road and County Road 41 and all of the roads that run off of it. 227 notifications (NOT HOMES) were sent for this area. A pre-evacuation alert was issued (5 notifications) for the Buckhorn Road between mile markers 25 and 27. As of this writing six structures have been confirmed lost to the fire. 5 Single Engine Air Tankers (SEAT); 2 Type 1 Helitankers; 2 Type 3 Helicopters; 2-4 Heavy Air Tankers; Air Attack; and Lead Plane are currently attacking the fire with ground crews.
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Rope Tornado, Low Level Meso and wall cloud, Snow Plow moving hail, hail covered road and fog, storm structure.
Opening shot is the Elizabeth, CO tornado roping out followed by a very low level meso and wall cloud will screaming inflow. Next scene is a snow plow plowing hail off the road and then hail piled high on the road and fog reducing visibility. Last scene is some storm structure.
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StormChasingVideo.com Justin Teague caught this Landspout tornado that caused damage in the town of Paducah, Texas. Windows were blown out of vehicles and light structural damage as the dusty tornado moved off to the east of town as they rolled through right after it hit.
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Severe weather erupts across portions of the plains bringing large hail, strong winds, and torrential rains.
Video package covers two storms in/near the town of Franklin, Nebraska where the opening shot is of the town’s water tower with the approaching storm. Also includes shots of American flag being blow in severe winds (for Memorial Day) in part 2 of the file.
PART 1 (0:00-2:40) HAILSTORM
Video opens up with town water tower and approaching storm clouds with following two scenes of approaching storms with shelf/wall cloud. Shots taken on east side of town where large hail up to 2-inches falls. Shots include hail on the street and hail falling as a group of motor cycles take cover beneath a building awning. Shot of a biker picking up a large hailstone and transitions to shot of him holding stone. Various shots of hail measured to close to 2-inches with ruler, a lime, and a golfball.
PART 2 – PART 1 (2:40-4:03) SEVERE STORM
Opens with wide shot of traffic driving through high winds/rain with American flags blowing in the foreground. Next scene close up of American flag in the high winds. Next shot of very high winds and rain blowing through the streets of Franklin looking like a tropical storm. Shot of a truck driving through standing water with another street wind shot with a lightning flash in the background. Another shot looking down the road with American flags in the foreground with a pickup turning away from the shot. Next two shots of a truck pulled over in the heavy rain/wind. Last couple of shots of vehicles driving through the standing water in town.
Shot #1 is a large cone tornado west of Lacrosse, KS
Shot #2 is another shot of the tornado west of Lacrosse, KS
Shot #3 is the same tornado WNW of Lacrosse, KS as a fat cone/stovepipe
Shot #4 is again the same tornado WNW of Lacrosse, KS as a fat cone.
Shot #5 is a slender needle tornado ENE of Lacrosse, KS.
Shot #6 is the Wall Cloud shortly before it produced the Lacrosse, KS tornado.
Damage video from nighttime tornado that hit LaCrosse. Officials indicate the town was mostly spared, however some damage occurred as a result of a tornado.
Video package opens up with a building that had its front windows blown out with people walking around inside. Various shots of emergency vehicles and personnel in town. Shots of damaged trees including a bull-dozer removing debris from a street. Other tree damage shots from LaCrosse.
Video ends with 45-seconds of raw footage where you can see twin tornadoes after dark from the storm responsible for the damage in LaCrosse. Lightning flashes briefly illuminate tornadoes.
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Scene #1 gustnado east of Lawrence, NE. Scene #2 blowing outflow dust near Deweese, NE. Scene 3 power pole being snapped by rear flank downdraft by tornado warned storm near Byron, NE.
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A long-track severe thunderstorm that developed and produced severe hail across eastern Colorado earlier in the day near the town of Eads continued to march into Kansas where it produced more large hail along it’s path. Video shot along I-70 near Oakley, Kansas as the storm crossed the interstate. Hail up to 1-inch fell during the video.
Video package opens with establishing shots of the storm as it nears Oakley. Shots of hail and very low visibility along I-70 from POV. Also includes shot passing a car that spun out into the median due to hail covering the road. Various shots of traffic and hail falling in a nearby parking lot with the stones hitting vehicles both wide and up-close. Shots of cars slowing beneath an I-70 overpass (exit 79) during the storm. Several shots of cars pulled over along I-70 awaiting the storm’s passage. Video package finishes with shots of hail drifts along I-70.
Baseball sized hail destroys vehicle windshields. Shot just north of Hedley on TX-273 and opens with POV during storm as windshield is destroyed. Various shots of POV during storm, then transitions to shots of hail compared with tennis-balls along with shots of damaged vehicles.
Footage of a tornado in Harlan County, Nebraska from about a half mile away as it was doing damage.
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1). Developing tornado near Russel, KS (brief with rain-wrap).
2). Rope tornado near Rush Center, KS/
3). Wedge tornado (several shots) east of Rice County, KS and north of highway 56.
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SID: Chris Collura
A large supercell responsible for a violent tornado near Langley dropped another large tornado on the northeast side of Salina, KS and it crossed I-70 and moved toward the town of Manchester, Kansas before lifting.
Video opens up of multi-vortex tornado crossing I-70 east of Salina. Various shots of the tornado up close as it moves in the field within a quarter mile of the chasers with amazing backlighting and flying debris. Shots of tornado roping out east of Manchester.
Video includes a couple shots of the Langley wedge tornado showing violent motions and horizontal vorticies.
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A tornadic storm moves out of the OKC Metro area and into eastern Oklahoma along I-40. Several small, brief tornadoes touched down around Shawnee and dropped some severe hail as well.
Video package opens with shot of wall cloud with lightning strike. Various shots of wall clouds and funnels from around Shawnee. Also included are shots of hail with traffic stopped on the side of the road as hail up to 1.25″ falls.
A slow moving supercell storm produces several tornadoes and huge hail in Woodward County and City, Oklahoma. Video package contains over 4 minutes of footage.
Opening shots of tornado on the south side of Woodward. Multivortex tornado does little damage on south side of town, including snapping power poles which area included in video.
Video continues with hail up to 4-inches in diameter falling. Opens with storm scene with giant hail littering the ground. Various shots of hail falling followed by hail damage shots to vehicles that lost windows. Various shots of hail compared to baseballs and apples.
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Late Saturday night a fire broke out in a warehouse that was reported by officials on the scene as the warehouse for the that housed WW Inc. WW Inc is owned Charles Ward who also owns Saint Cloud State University Bookstore and Gas Station by the campus and Textbook1 on 9th and University Drive.
Crews were on the scene from about 8:30 PM to well past midnight trying to put out the fire and remove smoldering contents from what was left of the warehouse located at 2645 Clearwater Road.
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9/10/2011 B-Roll footage of the Northern Lights, also known as the
Aurora Borealis over Northern Minnesota.
Footage shows the lights dancing over the horizon and
raising up into the sky.
Footage shot with an ultra low light video camera.
Catalog ID: 09102011B
Total Run Time: 01;55;21
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The first part of this video is from a long track supercell develops in Nebraska and moves into Missouri, lasting several hours, dumping tons of hail, and was warned for most of it’s life as it slowly moved east from Nebraska into Missouri.
Video package includes daytime shots of large hail up to golfball size falling around the town of Talmage, Nebraska which is 12 miles southwest of Nebraska City. Shots include falling hail on the grass and highways and includes a couple shots of hail compared to golfball.
Last shots of clouds with lots of motion. No tornadoes were reported with this storm, but the clouds were rotating at times.
Part 2 of video package includes footage from the same storm that dumped large hail in Talmage in earlier video package.
This package includes shots from Missouri, opening up with wall cloud moving over the Missouri River. Various shots of wall cloud as darkness falls and storms moves at Tarkio. Last shots of POV of falling hail from the storm.
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Video of smoke across southwest Denver from The Lower North Fork Fire burning in southwest Jefferson County. The fire was likely started from a controlled burn conducted by the Colorado Forest Service last week that rekindled Monday afternoon in high winds. As of 6:30pm MDT, the fire was estimated to be more than 200 acres and had prompted the evacuations of residents in the Pleasant Park area near Conifer with additional evacuations likely coming as the night progresses. Conifer High School has been set up as the first evacuation shelter and the Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross was sending volunteers to the school. An additional evacuation center was set up at Chatfield High School in southwest Denver. Wind gusts nearing 70mph have been recorded at measuring sites near the fire.
Video package opens with intense smoke turning the setting sun dark red. Various shots of the sun in the smoke with the red hue of the sky. Various other shots of smoke across southwest Denver with traffic driving in low visibility. Other shots at the end of the view of the smoke from west Denver looking south at the fire.
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SID: Tony Laubach
Thunderstorms formed over northern Oklahoma and south central Kansas this afternoon. Small hail covered the ground around Wichita, KS and fell on motorist along US 54-400 during the start of the afternoon drive home.
Shot 1: Shows driving on US 54-400 in western Wichita. Hail is covering the ground and traffic is slow.
Shot 2: Go Pro hood footage, with a lightning strike a few seconds in.. Hail is covering the highway.
Shot 3: Shows a car being pelted with small hail and covered, almost like winter time! A small zoom is included.
Shot 4: Shows hail accumulating on the road and a nearby car.
Shot 5: Shows traffic traveling down us 54-400 as hail falls.
Shot 6: Go Pro hood footage showing a very ominous hail core approaching downtown Wichita, with falling stones evident in the video.
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SID: Brandon Sullivan
