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
Snow fell in the south on Sunday in Raleigh, NC. About an inch of snow fell during the evening and covered the roads and side walks to make downtown Raleigh, NC look more like the upper Midwest.
1. Downtown Raleigh with heavy snow
2. Raleigh sign with snow
3. Daffodils in the snow
4. Cars driving down McDowell St in snow
5. Men walking across Fayetteville Street in the snow
6. Snow covered car
7. Snow covers early spring plants
8. Person with umbrella in snow
9. Snow falls in front of Caraleigh Mills
10. Tire tracks in wet snow
11. Dog walker in snow
12. NC State Capitol Building
13. Flag with flurries
14. Snow and Raleigh wayfinder sign
15. Fayetteville Street
SID: Matt Robinson
Major winter storm slams the Colorado Front Range leaving up to a foot of snow across the Denver Metro area with upwards of another foot possible by the storm’s end on Saturday morning. The storm may crack the top 10 biggest single snowstorms in Denver history if 20-inches or more can fall by the time the storm clears out.
Video package opens up with various shots of sledders at Sledding Hill Park in southwest Denver near Ken Caryl. Shots kids and adults sledding down the hill in heavy falling snow and wind. Several other shots of parents watching their kids sled.
Video package transitions to various traffic shots in the daylight morning hours. POV shots along I-25 in Denver with C-DOT signs advising drivers of the icy roads. POV shots of up to 5 snow plows clearing I-25. Several other POV shots of driving in heavy falling snow.
Video package includes shots of a vehicle that slid off US-285 at Kipling Street in west Denver and was left on the side of the road.
Video package ends with various shots of crews removing snow, shots of vehicles driving on snow-covered roads, and other stationary snow plow shots.
SID: Tony Laubach
Winter returns to Colorado as an unseasonably warm January comes to an end. While the mountains scored best with this system, parts of Denver saw a couple inches less than 24 hours after temperatures were in the 60s across parts of the metro area. The official high temperature in Denver on Thursday was 58 degrees with 60s in a few places along the Front Range. In fact, since the first of January, high temperatures in Denver have been above 50 degrees for 14 days, so half the month thus far has been well above average. It’s a different kind of unusual weather as the year gets off to a strange start.
Video package opens up with various downtown Denver skyline shots with moderate to heavy falling snow. Various other shots of people in the snow across downtown Denver.
SID: Tony Laubach
A surprise, hard-hitting snowstorm dumps several inches of snow across parts of the Metro area making travel very difficult. Up to 4 inches of snow fell in the western and southern suburbs while barely a dusting fell in others.
Video package opens up with shots of a vehicle that slid off the road and down a hill due to the extremely slippery conditions. Various shots of stalled cars follow.
Several shots of truckers chaining up their semis along I-70 in west Denver before making their way up the mountain. Fines up to $1000 are imposed for truckers who do not properly equip themselves in the winter. Shots of a trucker chaining up, shots of a long line of semis along westbound I-70.
Various POV driving shots of heavy, low-visibility snow travel along I-70 in west Denver.
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SID: Tony Laubach
