Severe storms hit west central Minnesota around the Alexandria, MN area and produced a tornadic warned storm. The tornado reported was brief but the storm itself lasted for a few hours. As the storm passed by the Alexandria area, the structure was vivid and well defined at the base of the storm.
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Severe storms formed near the foothills and I-25 corridor Tuesday afternoon as BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was there to witness the torrential rains in Colorado Springs, Colo, leading to flash flood warnings as 3-4 inches of rain fell in about an hour’s time. The storm was severe warned and even tornado-warned for a time, but no tornadoes were reported.
Video package opens up with two shots of low shelf clouds on top of Cheyenne Mountain west of Colorado Springs. Next shots are POV shots driving through flooded roads along Powers Blvd. on the east side of town.
After POV shots, a very cool shot of a BMW driving into on-rushing waters as the water gets pushed up and over the hood. Following shots of store keepers trying to prevent water from entering their buildings. Various other shots of traffic in the flood waters along Powers Blvd. Package ends with generic water shots.
This storm was part of the line of storms which caused the extreme turbulance and forced United Flight 967 to make an emergency landing in Denver, CO.
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Severe storms hit central Minnesota today with large hail and several tornado warnings from Osakis, MN to the Twin Cities metro area.
In this video, large hail hits the area in western Stearns county from Sauk Centre to Richmond, MN. The footage shows golfball to base ball sized hail falling while driving and while parked. The hail did a lot of crop damage to the area as well as extreme hail damage around the city of Richmond, MN where houses sustained major hail damage. Additinal footage of a wall cloud over Lake Osakis in Osakis, MN.
The 19-year-old fugitive Colton Harris-Moore who was known as “The Bare Foot Bandit” was caught in and is now in chains and hand cuffs. Police in the Bahamas Harbour Island caught him early Sunday morning after stealing a boat from nearby Eleuthera Island and landing on Harbour Island.
On Harbour Island, Harris-Moore attempted to steal another boat from a home but ran aground in the shallow water. The authorities surrounded Harris-Moore and shot out the engines in the second boat to prevent him from escaping.
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Heavy rains created flooding issues across metro Denver Colorado this evening and BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was there to document it. The storms were slow moving and dumped about 3/4 inch of rain in less than 30 minutes creating flooding issues. This video package was shot in northern Denver in the late evening. Video opens up with POV driving shots during the storm and closes with a variety of shots of vehicles driving through 6 inches of water near Sheridan and 80th.
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Mother Nature had her own fireworks on display across Colorado on Sunday as severe storms hit the area southeast of Denver near Kiowa, CO during the late evening hours.
In the video shot by BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach, along CO-86 in and around Kiowa, Colorado, baseball size hail was falling as several vehicles were stopped on the side of the road waiting for the storm to pass.
Tony shot dramatic footage of baseball size hail bouncing hard and high off the ground. The hail falling was a mix of Golf Ball and Baseball sized hail. Video then moves to several damaged windshields, including storm chaser vehicle from inside. Golf ball sized hail was collected and put against several damaged windshields to give a perspective of the damage. There is a point of view shot as chasers approach Kiowa, CO with water tower in the background and half a foot of hail on the highway. Various shots of hail accumulating in town. Also includes shots of a store keeper brushing accumulating hail from his porch and post-storm hail on the ground and fog created by the hail cooling the air.
Then Tony goes onto Elizabeth, CO as an earlier storm that moved through the area dumped several inches of rain in less than 1 hour. There are various shots of vehicles driving through rushing waters across the roadways as well as various in-town flooding shots as the water slowly drains away.
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The fire continues at the Round Mountain fire southwest of Loveland, CO.
Video shows a slurry bomber dropping retardant and fire shoots up on trees while a test plane checks path for slurry bombers.
Severe storms packed high winds that looked more like a tropical storm then a thunderstorm over Southwest Minnesota near the City of Marshall, MN which is in Lyon County.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Justin King was covering the wild fires in Glen Haven and Drake Colorado yesterday and sent in this video package.
The first wild fire video was from Glen Haven, Colorado. The video opens with shot of a high fire danger sign, then goes to the North Fork Trail head parking lot for a good look at the initial smoke from the fire when it was 15-35 acres in size. Next shots are all taken from North of Estes Park in a residential area close to Rocky Mountain National Park. Video has smoke shooting up into the sky and looking like Cumulonimbus clouds. Air tankers and other small aircraft were in the area but they did not drop slurry at time of filming. Helicopter support trailer, the US Forest Service, and Rocky Mountain National Park rangers arrive on scene later in the video. At the very end we were ushered out of the area as they were closing it down for staging equipment. At time of leaving the fire it was estimated to be over 100 Acres in size and growing fast.
The second fire of day was in Drake, Colorado. The video opens near incident command post on Highway 34 near the Round Mountain Trail head, video shows flames shooting up from the trees, quick shot of command, and back to the fire. Later moved west to get a better vantage point and was behind the flames looking uphill. Video shows trees going up like match sticks, glow from behind the flames looking up, and some fire apparatus heading to staging area for structure protection, there are homes threatened by this fire.
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Video opens with shot of a high fire danger sign, then goes to the North Fork Trail head parking lot for a good look at the initial smoke from the fire when it was 15-35 acres in size. Next shots are all taken from North of Estes Park in a residential area close to Rocky Mountain National Park. Video has smoke shooting up into the sky and looking like Cumulonimbus clouds. Air tankers and other small aircraft were in the area but they did not drop slurry at time of filming. Helicopter support trailer, the US Forest Service, and Rocky Mountain National Park rangers arrive on scene later in the video. At the very end we were ushered out of the area as they were closing it down for staging equipment. At time of leaving the fire it was estimated to be over 100 Acres in size and growing fast.
Drake, Colorado
2nd fire of day: video opens near incident command post on Highway 34 near the Round Mountain Trail head, video shows flames shooting up from the trees, quick shot of command, and back to the fire. Later moved west to get a better vantage point and was behind the flames looking uphill. Video shows trees going up like match sticks, glow from behind the flames looking up, and some fire apparatus heading to staging area for structure protection, there are homes threatened by this fire.
Severe storms hit the Minnesota area tonight with extreme high winds and large hail around the Clear Lake MN area, which is just north of the Twin Cities metro area on interstate 94.
From the looks of the damage, extreme high speed straight line winds hit the area since all of the damge over a wide area was all blown to the southeast.
This footage includes high winds and hail along with power lines shorting out as a tree branch falls on live power lines. The aftermath footage shows a lot of trees down including trees down on homes in the Clear Lake, MN area.
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BNVN Weather Paparazzi Justin King was chasing around Log Lane Village, CO & Akron, CO where he shot a small funnel protruding from storm where it had a non-condensed ground contact was made and the extremely high wind was pushing out a nice dust trail from the contact point.
The storm progressed east where more ground circulation was noticed. Winds in excess of 50 mph during storm. At 50 second mark there is a second touchdown that wasn’t even noticed until looking at video (short clip). next scenes are storm motion, storm structure, road cones blown over from the high wind (very ruff road), and more storm structure from north of Akron, CO and a nice updraft core condensing at the end.
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BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was on the severe storms that fired in Colorado after days of a stout cap preventing storm development. This storm was a long-track supercell that formed over Boulder, Colorado in the foothills and moved into Kansas several hours later. Storm dropped hail and a few brief tornadoes across northern Colorado.
Video package opens up with POV driving shots as slushy hail falls and splats on the windshield. Next couple scenes include falling rain and hail. Last shot of POV is with a rainbow, lots of hail covering the road, and falling rain.
Next series of shots include hail up to 1-inch in diameter falling east of Akron. Stones can be seen bouncing out of the grass and off nearby dirt roads. Several shots of hailstones splashing into puddles as well.
Video then focuses on street flooding in Akron along US-34, the main drag in town. Water was 6-12 inches deep in spots. Video shows various shots of vehicles driving through high water, including cars, pick up trucks, and semi trucks.
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June 17, 2010 Pine County, MN which is south of the city of Duluth, MN, a violent tornado hit the area just east of Pine City, MN along the Minnesota and Wisconsin boarder. The tornado injured several people and destroyed one home and damaged another along Highway 70.
The damage footage was shot after I stopped and called in the destroyed home to authorities and made sure the scene was stable until EMS showed up.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was on a tornadic storm that developed near I-25 and moved over the town of Chugwater, Wyoming, about 45 miles north of Cheyenne on Sunday. The video package opens up with tripoded dash footage of massive high-contrast wall cloud rotating over I-25 just south of the Chugwater exit. Next shot of a brief funnel and cloud swirls directly overhead
Next shots in storm as 60mph winds and golf ball hail fall. Various POV shots of hail falling on the street. Last storm shot shows baseball size hail on the roads as golf balls fall and impact dark pavement.
Next shot includes two baseball hailstones in hand against a destroyed windshield with people inside the car wiping glass from the dash. Various other shots include hailstones stacked up against a baseball and tennis ball. Other shots of very spiky hail in chaser’s hands. One scene of a hailstone stacked up against a dollar bill.
Next series of shots are low-ground shots of hail covering roads just east of Chugwater. Middle shot of an SUV slowly driving away.
Last shot a humor shot of a very close lightning strike just off camera and the immediate thunder. Lightning hit the field less than 30 feet from vehicle and sent a larger plume of smoke into the air. Scene just includes bright flash, thunder, and chaser audio as camera was pointed straight ahead.
High winds from severe storm hit Kalamazoo, MI on Friday evening.
Footage includes shots of the storm moving into the area and continues as the heavy rains and high winds impact the drives.
Some tree damage was reported from the storms.
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June 17, 2010 – Eric Whitehill was in Wadena, MN as the tornado hit the town. Eric gets video of the tornado coming into down with debris up in the air. After the town gets hit, Eric checks out the damage path around Wadena, MN.
June 17, 2010 – Severe storms and powerful tornadoes rake western Minnesota on Thursday. Video package includes tornado video shot by TWISTEX researcher, Ed Grubb and continues with damage footage shot by TWISTEX researcher Tony Laubach.
Opening shot of one of the tornadoes in the Wadena area as chasers drive north toward town. Following shots are POV shots immediately after the tornadoes as they navigate damaged areas on the southwest side of town.
Next shots of a group of girls hugging after the storms moved out. One girl is crying.
Next series of shots from the Wadena/Deer Creek High School that took a direct hit from the tornado. Various shots of damage on the school grounds including several overturned cars that were in the parking lot, including one of a golden sedan that was pulverized.
Next series of shots includes damage video from a nearby neighborhood. This section opens with two cops blocking the road with a severely damaged house in the background. Various other shots of damaged homes and vehicles as well as shots of various crews and people wondering around.
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June 17, 2010 – Brandon Sullivan shot this amazing tornado footage near the town of Bricelyn, MN which is about twenty miles west of Albert Lea, MN on Interstate 90.
The dramatic footage shows a cone tornado that morphs into a multi-vortex tornado and then into a wedge tornado and back to a cone and large tornado for almost an hour.
The Elkhorn river is a t flood stage just North West of the Omaha metro on in the town of Waterloo, Nebraska. The river is expected to continue to rise tonight into tomorrow and cause flooding to the homes and buildings.
The BNVN Weather Paparazzi crews caught a strong rain wrapped tornado that touched down 7 miles south/southwest of Elmwood, Oklahoma in Beaver County.
In the footage shot by TWISTEX team members Tony Laubach, the video opens up with developing funnel cloud before going to the tornado first touching down. Couple of scenes of tornado at its mature stage as it becomes a very large cone and crosses the county road. Video ends with driving shot of tornado to chaser’s north. There are reports that a farm was damaged in this tornado.
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Tony Laubach and the Twistex Research crew were storm chasing in the Texas Panhandle on Saturday as large hail hammers the area. In the video package that Tony shot, it opens up with large hail bouncing on the roads and in the grass and fields. A couple shots of an emergency vehicle in the hail. Next shots of extremely large hail (4+ inches) being picked up and measured including one shot of 4.0″ hailstone with a ruler. Ending shots with large hailstones with a baseball and tennis ball.
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Severe storms produce strong winds and weak tornadoes across eastern Colorado. The TWISTEX research team intercepted several weak tornadoes east of Limon, Colorado Friday evening.
Video package opens up with several cloud/structure shots before transitioning to two weak tornadoes. The first touching down north of Arriba, CO with a white cone funnel and debris swirl. Second tornado produced a dust whirl beneath funnel to which handheld and dash-cam shots are used. Last shot a wide of the storm and rain shaft.
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The newest member of the BNVN Weather Paparazzi crew, Eric Treece, caught two picturesque tornadoes near Last Chance, CO. The tornadoes moved over open country with perfect photographic lighting to back-lite the tornado that was on the ground for several minutes.
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Tony Laubach was out chasing yesterday in Scottsbluff, NE where he was in the middle of a severe storm that dumped a lot of rain and hail on the area. The video opens with several shots of heavy rain and hail falling on the west side of Scottsbluff. Video transitions to some road ponding in northern Scottsbluff where a neighborhood road turned into a small running creek. Shot opens with kids playing in the water on the road. Various shots after include vehicles driving through the streaming water, including a storm chasing mesonet vehicle. Various generic shots of water running down the road end this segment.
At about 11pm, another severe storm rolled through Scottsbluff with 1.25″ hail. Various shots from the Candlelight Inn hotel of hail falling on vehicles and in the parking lot. One scene where camera man gets startled by close lightning strike. Various shots of hail falling on the pavement and on cars.
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