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Severe storms brought heavy rain, high winds and vivid lightning to west central Minnesota on Saturday afternoon.

Footage shows the storms that hit the Pope County, MN area which is about 100 west of the Twin Cities metro area.

Clip 01 High winds blow large construction debris across the road in front of the camera.

Clip 02 – 03 POV shots of high winds gusting over 50 miles per hour.

Clip 04 Storm front moving from the west near the town of Starbuck, MN

Clip 05 – 11 B-Roll of lightning and the storm front moving towards the camera near Starbuck, MN

Clip 12 Line of storms over taking area.

Clip 13 Lowering behind the leading edge.

Clip 14 – 15 Driving in high winds with lowering clouds

Clip 16 POV shot of very close lightning

Clip 17 Lightning after dark.

SID: Douglas Kiesling

Who let the dogs out because after an unusually cool and sometimes cold summer in Minneapolis, MN, the Dog days of summer have finally arrived this week.

Footage shot around the south beach of Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, MN

TRT 3:41

Clip 1 People on a paddle boards on Lake

Clip 2 People at South Beach on lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.

Clip 3 People walking their dog (dog days)

Clip 4 Two women running with their dog and run right up to the camera next to the fountain with a dish with water for the dogs.

Clip 5 Low shot of a dog walking by the camera.

Clip 6 Medium shot of people in the water at the beach with the skyline in the background

Clip 7 Medium shot of two women standing in the lake.

Clip 8 – 9 Life guards looking out over the water.

Clip 10 Someone running

Clip 11 People walking and running past the camera

Clip 12 A couple walking past the camera

Clip 13 A man helping a young girl get a drink from the well fountain

Clip 14 Group of people biking on the bike path

Clip 15 People out on the diving platform on the lake.

Clip 16 – 17 People playing volleyball

SID: Douglas Kiesling

Severe-warned storms swept across southern IL early Monday afternoon bringing heavy rain and wind. Storms that moved across Union County lead to nearly an inch of rain falling in places within 45 minutes and lead to a hydroplaning accident along I-57.

Video package includes scenes of vehicle in median in addition to the car being pulled out by a tow truck driver who just happened upon the scene. The Mississippi man was southbound back to MS and spun 1-and-a-half times when heavy rains caused him to lose control of the truck. He came to rest facing the southbound lanes and was not injured, just shaken up.

While examining his truck, a tow driver pulled on to the scene and latched up his tow truck to the vehicle and pulled him out. Afterwards, the Miss. man was insistent on trying to give the truck driver something for helping him, but the tow truck driver was equally as insistent on not taking payment and was just happy he could help the man.

Examination of the truck showed the exhaust pipe was bent around under the vehicle, but was still drivable. Upon recommendation from the two truck driver, the man took his truck to the Anna exit only a couple miles down to have a nearby body shop cut off the bent pipe so he could continue his trip home to Mississippi.

Shot List

Scene 1: Panned shot of the tire tracks in the median to the stranded truck.

Scene 2: Shot of the man and his truck as the tow truck arrives on scene.

Scene 3-4: Wide and close shots of the tow truck driver attaching a chain to the pickup truck.

Scene 5: Long shot of the pickup’s first attempt to straighten out the pickup truck in the median.

Scene 6: Man gets back in his awkwardly positioned truck in the median.

Scene 7: Shot as tow truck pulls the pickup to the inside shoulder of I-57.

Scene 8: Shot of the bent exhaust under the pickup truck.

Scene 9: Shot of man and pickup truck in the median before tow truck arrived.

Scene 10: Wide shot after being pulled out when Illinois State Patrol arrived.

Scene 11-13: Shots of storm clouds on the approaching storm.

Scene 14-15: POV drive shots during the heavy rains.

Scene 16-17: Wide and close shot of a vehicle with emergency flashes pulled off the road during the heavy rains.

Scene 18: Truck drives through flooded road in the town of Anna.

Scene 19: A vehicle pulls out of an intersection through some minor ponding.

Scene 20: A couple vehicles drive through a puddle of water in Anna.

Scene 21: Static shot of flooded side road.

SID: Tony Laubach

To license this footage, contact http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Sharknado 2 – When real storm chasers take on real sharks. And a freak supercell hit’s Oklahoma, nature’s deadliest killer weather teams up with the oceans monsters as thousands of sharks terrorize the oblivious public who ignored the tornado watch…

After hearing about the first one and now a The Second One, we just had to play with the footage in our stock footage archives.
Footage from StormChasingVideo.com from Doug Kiesling, Brandon Sullivan and Brian Dombrowski.

Severe storms hit central Minnesota this evening as tornado warned and severe warned storms moved along Interstate 94 from western Minnesota to the Twin Cities metro area.

Footage shows the storms from just west of Glenwood, MN where the storm became tornado warned to near New London, MN where the storm became outflow dominant and a major hail producer.

Clip 1 Driving west on Highway 28 towards a tornado warned storm.

Clip 2 – 3 Looking west towards the tornado warned storm with a rain shaft on the right and ragged disorganized lowering on the left.

Clip 4 Flanking the storm on the south side as the leading edge overtakes the vehicle.

Clip 5 Driving in hail

Clip 6 Driving in larger hail that hits the car right in front or the camera. Good audio.

Clip 7 Zoomed in shot of the hail on the ground while driving.

Clip 8 POV shot following another car in the hail storm.

Clip 9 Driving in the hail with lots of tree branches down.

Clip 10 Driving into New London with hail failing.

Clip 11 Lots of large hail falling and making a dash to get under a gas station canopy.

Clip 12 Looking out towards the street while parked as the hail falls.

Clip 13 – 14 Hail falling and the camera while shooting hail hitting parked cars.

Clip 15 Hail falling with a pan to the left to show hail hitting the car next to the camera.

Clip 16 Hail falling and hitting the ground.

Clip 17 Hail falling and hitting a roof with a Dish Network antenna on it.

Clip 18 The second wave of the storms passing by which looked good but were not severe.

Clip 19 Behind the storm, Rainbow.

Clip 20 – 21 Mammatus Clouds at sunset.

SID: Douglas Kiesling

High winds and a possible tornado caused extensive damage to parts of Breckenridge, MN this evening.

Shot 1: Building missing roof with roof pieces and flooded street
Shot 2: Part of a roof in the street
Shot 3: Shot of people and missing roof and damage
Shot 4: person in front of business with missing roof
Shot 5: Tree Damage
Sot 6: Debris next to fire hydrant
Shot 7: Debris with person driving through flooded streets
Shot 8: Golf ball size hail
Shot 9: Person driving in flooded water
Shot 10: More Tree and Trampoline Damage
Shot 11: Trampoline against house
Shot 12: Flooding water in a manhole
Shot 13: people driving in downtown damage of Breckenridge

SID: Eric Whitehill

The 76th annual Peach Festival was held Friday and Saturday at Cobden Community Park in southern Illinois. Activities included a parade through downtown Cobden, a carnival with rides and games, a Queen contest, food peach cobbler, Bingo and Spin-and-Win for peaches.

While warm with a high in the mid 80s, temperatures across the region remain below normal. After closing out an abnormally “cool” July with record lows being set all over the region, temperatures continue to remain below normal as highs this time of year usually run in the low to mid 90s. While still muggy due to rains overnight, it was still very lovely weather to take in the annual Peach Festival in Cobden, Illinois.

Cobden, IL is located approximately 16 miles south of Carbondale, IL or 30 miles northeast of Cape Girardeau, MO.

Video package opens with establishing shots of the Cobden Peach Festival sign, then follows with various shots of the parade through downtown Cobden including scenes with the Cobden High School Marching Band and the reigning Peach Festival Queen, Lindsey Carter. Several other parade shots.

Transitions to the festival itself with shots of people eating and cooking food, some of the carnival rides, shots of a bingo game, and of course, the peaches!

SID: Tony Laubach

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Here is 29:00 minutes of footage compressed into 1:02 time-lapse of a shelf cloud approaching the SS Wilfred Sykes on Northern Lake Michigan. A shelf cloud is nothing dangerous and basically is the visual Que of the frontal passage of a cold front.

SID: Eric Treece

To license this footage for broadcast, contact http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Dramatic stock footage of the deadly Moore, OK EF5 Tornado shot by chasers who are also trained EMT’s and a passenger riding along.

Footage starts out from just south of 19th Street South and Interstate 35 as the violent tornado was ripping through the city and moving towards the cameraman. Several power flashes and flying debris caught on camera with extreme audio of the tornado.

Footage continues as debris falls on top of the area of the chasers as the tornado crosses Interstate 35.

Footage ends with graphic aftermath along Interstate 35 as the EMT’s run into the damage to help as the passenger stays with the truck in the middle of the damage path on Interstate 35.

Catalog ID: 05202013_BM1
Total Run Time: 29;40;29

StormChasingVideo.com LLC no longer handles the Rights and Clearances for this footage.
To license this footage, contact stormtrackerben@gmail.com

5/31/2013 Union City, OK Tornado Stock Footage Catalog.

Raw footage from Brandon Sullivan and his chase partner Brett Wright who were got caught in the inflow of the tornado and slammed with debris northwest of Union City, OK as a barn was ripped apart and exploded in front of them. Footage includes all five camera from inside and outside of the car.

Catalog ID: 05312013_BTS1
Total Run Time:
Format: HD 1080 30P

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5/31/2013 El Reno, OK Tornado and Damage – B-Roll

Stock footage of the historic major outbreak of severe weather that hit Oklahoma for the second time in two weeks. Storms erupted west of Oklahoma City and dropped multiple tornadoes along I-40 near El Reno and Union City along US-81.

Footage of the tornado the passed between El Reno and Union City crossing US-81. Next series of shots are immediate aftermath clips from between Union City and El Reno along
US-81 including emergency crews looking over a flipped cars and several houses that were damaged. Ends with shots of flood waters blocking a road.

Catalog ID: 05312013_TL1
Total Run Time: 09;55;26

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

B-Roll Stock footage from the Tornado near El Reno, OK that grew to 2.6 miles wide and was an EF-5 with winds of 296 miles per hour.

Footage includes pre storm and tornado B-Roll. Tornado as seen from El Reno to the Southwest and includes audio of the air raid sirens sounding.

Catalog ID: 05312013_CC1
Total Run Time: 05;22;18

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Stock footage of the record breaking flooding that happened along the Kaskaskia River at
Vandalia in south-central Illinois.

Catalog ID: 04192013_TL1
Total Run Time: 09:34:11

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Point of View (POV) Stock Footage of the Bennington, KS Tornado.

Footage shot through the windshield of a very large and stationary tornado.

Catalog ID: 05282013_VC
Total Run Time: 01;35;17

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

5/19/2013 Luther and Shawnee, OK Tornado B-Roll. Stock footage from the tornado outbreak that hit the Luther and Shawnee, OK area the day before the Moore, OK tornado.

00:05:00, Chasers talking about their plan for the day.
00:58:09, Edmond, OK Tornado.
03:55:05, Luther, OK Tornado.
05:31:25, Tornado Four miles west of Shawnee, OK.
10:32:25, Tornado Two miles west of Shawnee, OK.

Catalog ID: 05192013_BTS1
Total Run Time: 13:12:14
Format: 1080 30P

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

High surf and rip tide conditions claim a 22 foot open bow boat on Siesta Key Beach, Sarasota FL.
A wave came over the bow and swamped and disabled the boat. The passengers escaped and made it to shore unharmed but the boat ran aground on Siesta Beach where it got pounded by waves from the strong SW wind. Ominious rain clouds and gusty SW winds prevailed as beach goes tried to get some beach time in before the expected heavy rains arrive.
HD video. Run time 3:28.

Shot List:

1) A 22 foot open bow boat that took a wave over the bow became swampped and disabled.
It ran aground on Siesta Beach before SeaTow could secure it.

2) Boat around with person still on it as it gets pounded by the surf from the fresh SW onshore wind.

3) Guy on boat at stern as boat gets pounded by waves. He was trying to get important belonging off the boat.

4) Guy finally jumps off boat as his friend watches him from the water.

5,6,7) Sunk boat getting pounded by surf, various angles.

8) Life jacket snagged on bow anchor in surf.

9) Wide shot of people watching from beach.

10) People swimming in heavy surf despite the rip tide warnings and red flags.

11) Green life guard shack and beach umbrella in fresh sw breeze with dark skies over Gulf of Mexico.

12) Tight shot of life guard looking out over people in water.

13) Ominous dark clouds over gulf.

14) Ominous dark cloud hangs over beach with rain.

15) People leaving the beach as the rain started to pick up.

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

A line of severe storms that developed northwest of St. Louis pushed southeast across southern IL into Missouri and Kentucky bringing heavy rains, wind, some hail and even funnel cloud reports. Minor damage was reported in parts of Illinois as a result of these storms.

Video package shot along US-51 in Jackson County. Early shots taken from Dowell, flooding shots in Carbondale, and damage shots in Elkville and De Soto.

Scene 1: Storm clouds moving in to Jackson County.

Scene 2-3: Leading edge of storm clouds.

Scene 4: High winds push into Dowell.

Scene 5: Close up of tree in high winds.

Scene 6: Very strong gust bends tree in winds.

Scene 7: Large tree in high wind and rain.

Scene 8: POV shot with oncoming traffic in high winds and rain.

Scene 9-10: Vehicles northbound on US-51 avoid debris in the road during storm.

Scene 11-12: Shot during storm of a toppled sign.

Scene 13: Firetruck passes in background of minor flooded street in Carbondale.

Scene 14-20: Various shots of vehicles driving through minor street flooding in Carbondale.

Scene 21: POV in Elkville neighborhood driving around down branch.

Scene 22: Large branch laying on ground next to US-51 in Elkville.

Scene 23: Wide shot of tree with down limb in a front yard in Elkville.

Scene 24: Close shot of down limb in front yard in Elkville.

Scene 25: Panned shot of two limbs down near a parking lot in De Soto.

Scene 26: Limb down near mailbox in De Soto.

Scene 27: Limb down in lawn in De Soto.

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Stock footage catalog of the historic Mille Lacs Lake ice glacial event. Footage includes the short cut news edit and the whole raw footage from the aftermath.

ENG Package starts at 00;00;05;00
Stock Package starts at 00;05;51;01

Catalog ID: 05112013_MilleLacs_DK
Total Run Time: 00;28;08;18
Format: HD 1080 60i

High winds from a strong low pressure system and the almost ice covered lake caused what can only be called a Mini Glacier event on the south side of Mille Lacs Lake in the town of Onamia, MN

With winds gusting over 35 miles per hour this morning, part of the massive ice sheet covering the lake started to move and when it moved, it moved south and came on shore like a glacier into the Izatys Resort area.

Footage shot on the south side of Mille Lacs Lake (Pronounced Mil-Lac-s) and is French for “One Thousand Lakes” because of it size. The area is located about 100 miles north of Minneapolis, MN. Mille Lacs is the second largest lake in the state of Minnesota. It has an area of 132,516 acres or 207.06mi² which was still over 90 percent covered in about 12 to 15 inches of ice this morning.

By the time it was over, the depth of the mini glacier was one to three feet at the edge near the town houses to over 25 feet at the lake shore. Maintenance personal for Izatys Resort said that clean up could take all summer due to the ice moving massive lake side and under water boulders onto the shore.

A line of severe storms exploded east of Denver prompting a slew of severe thunderstorm and even tornado warnings. Storms produced copious amounts of hail, mostly smaller than 1-inch, but lots of it.

Video shot along US-36 in Adams County about 5-10 miles EAST of Byers, CO. Hail stops traffic along US-36 as visibility lowered to near zero at times and roads became covered in hail several inches deep making for very slick driving conditions.

TRT – 3:36

Scene 1-2: Wide shots of storm with hail shaft and flashes of lightning.

Scene 3: Lowering on leading edge of the storm during the tornado warning.

Scene 4: Blowing dust gusting out from storm.

Scene 5: POV with hail covering road with police with lights driving by.

Scene 6: POV with three vehicles scattered on shoulders during hail.

Scene 7: POV looking down a hill at wintery hail scene.

Scene 8: POV on US-36 with hail several inches deep with various cars pulled off.

Scene 9: Shot of hail covered road with two vehicles pulled off.

Scene 10: Vehicle leaving parking spot in hail and spinning tires a bit.

Scene 11: POV passing parked car in accumulated hail.

Scene 12: Van drives by on hail during storm.

Scene 13: Oncoming vehicle in hail with rooster tail.

Scene 14: Looking back at hail with van driving away in hail.

Scene 15: Looking down hail covered road/hill with vehicles parked.

Scene 16: Oncoming car on hail covered road.

Scene 17: Hail landscape with street sign in foreground.

Scene 18: Hail and wind with trees.

Scene 19: Hail on road and falling with trees.

Scene 20: Tight to wide pan of hail covered road during storm

Scene 21: Heavy hail covering road and falling.

Scene 22: Shot of hail with water flow.

Scene 23: Shot of street covered in hail.

To license this video for broadcast, contact http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Footage of Tim Samaras at ChaserCon 2013 talking to a crowd of people in the parking lot of the hotel about his High Speed camera, “The Kahuna”. Tim described how he worked on the camera when he was with the university and how he came to owning the camera and how he retrofitted the camera to bring it into the 21st century.

Catalog ID: TS_Kahuna
Total Run Time: 07;55;26

The latest round of severe weather hit central Minnesota hard early this morning with high winds gusting in excess of 65 miles per hour. This footage was of some of the aftermath of the straight line winds in the Saint Cloud, MN area.

Clip 1 Pull back shot starts out with a Robin sitting on debris that might have been his home. Shot pulls back to show a massive tree that was knocked over from the high winds.

Clip 2 Pull back shot of a large tree down on a fence

Clip 3 Wider shot of tree on fence

Clip 4 Tree down in the background. Power lines and power meter box broken off the pole with traffic driving by.

Clip 5 Top of a power pole laying in the street

Clip 6 Tree down in the center of the road with traffic driving past it in both directions.

Clip 7 Storm damage to a home with a tree down.

Clip 8 – 12 Tree down on a vehicle

Clip 13 Tree down in the road

Clip 14 – 15 Tree on top of a vehicle

Clip 16 Tree down in someones front yard

Clip 17 – 19 Trees down in Barden Park on on the Saint Cloud State University (SCSU) campus.

Clip 20 Tree down on a VW in someones driveway

Clip 21 Tree blocking the whole road.

Clip 22 – 23 More trees down.

To license this footage for broadcast, contact http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

New footage from Simon Brewer and Juston Drake from the outflow dominant supercell North East of Linton, ND, which produced multiple very low wall cloud, on 06/20/2013 from 4:30 PM CDT through 7:30 PM CDT.

To license this footage for broadcast, contact http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

Severe weather breaks out across parts of eastern Colorado bringing copious amounts of hail that rained down on kids, animals, and vehicles and burying roads in drifts over a foot deep. Several supercells rolled across the state and made quite a mess in the region. Scenes resembling Colorado blizzards were the result of these massive hailstorms.

Video shot along US-34 in Morgan County 7 miles east of Brush, Colorado just before the Morgan/Washington County line.

Scene 1-2: Wide shots of storm as it moves north of Brush.

Scene 3: Wall cloud as storm approaches Brush.

Scene 4: Three people running for cover as storm approaches (scene from early non-severe storm in Yuma, CO)

Scene 5: Hail falling on US-34.

Scene 6: Hail falling on dirt road.

Scene 7: Kids outside a minivan pulled on the shoulder collecting hail during storm. One gets bopped on the head. Both kids were okay.

Scene 8: Wide shot of minivan during hailstorm.

Scene 9-10: Raccoon running through a field as the hail falls.

Scene 11-13: Shots of hail falling on roadways during storm.

Scene 14: POV approaching where main hail shaft crossed US-34 east of Brush with ruts up to a foot deep.

Scene 15: Truck nearly spins out on deep hail and struggles for traction.

Scene 16: Vehicle pulls onto the shoulder covered in hail.

Scene 17: Shot of pulled over vehicle with semi passing.

Scene 18: Oncoming truck in hail ruts.

Scene 19: Panning of passing semi to two vehicles pulled over on US-34.

Scene 20: Long shot of truck passing pulled over vehicles in deep hail.

Scene 21-22: People standing near pulled over vehicle looking at the hail cover.

Scene 23: Oncoming semi kicks up hail.

Scene 24: Away-going truck drives through hail.

Scene 25: Hail in hand with hail drifts background.

Scene 26: Holding 1.50″ stone with hail scene in background.

Scene 27: Shot of road and field covered in up to a foot of hail.

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com

HD video of very heavy rain on I-75 and other areas around Sarasota County. Traffic on I-75 and US-41 in heavy rain w/ road flooding again. Event not related to TS Andrea. TRT 2:25

Shot list:

1) North bound I-75 with very dark cloud at boundary where rain starts.
2,3,4) Traffic slowed to under 30mph on I-75 in extremely heavy rain in Sarasota County.
5) Stopped traffic in rain at University Pkwy.
6) Ringling causeway looking at bridge and downtown Sarasota.
7) Traffic in rain at ringling causeway at Bird Key.
8) People with umbrella in rain at Lido Key beach parking lot.
9,10,11,12,13) Five shots of traffic splashing in ponding water and rain on US-41 and connecting roads in city of Sarasota.

To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com