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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The flooding continues in Greeley, CO as the Cache La Poudre River at 71st avenue south of “O” Street.
In the video by BNVN Weather Paparazzi Justin King, the water is running across the road very rapidly and is surrounding some outbuildings. The homeowner at this location stated they have water in their office room. Video goes onto the bike path nearby where 4+ inches of water are running across and down the trail. Open space to the east and west of the road is flooded approximately 3 feet deep in places. Final scene is at 83rd ave where only a few inches are gently crossing the road.
The National Weather Service in Denver, CO has a flood warning for the area until 9:45 p.m. Thursday.
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Our Bahamas stringer, TI, was able to get footage of 17-year-old Madison Pugh being brought into jail after being extradited to stand trial for the murder of her mother.
Pugh was extradited from Pennsylvania to the Bahamas last week. Pugh and her boyfriend Zyndall McKinney, 23, are charged for the murder of Anna Garrison, whose body was found wrapped in plastic and dumped on the side of the road last year.
In the footage, it shows Zyndall McKinney and Madison Pugh being brought separately into a court hearing in hand cuffs.
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The National Weather Service in Denver, CO has issued a flood warning for west central Weld County in northeast Colorado which includes parts of Windsor, CO and Greeley, CO until 3:45 a.m. mountain daylight time.
Our own BNVN weather Paparazzi Justin King, was out documenting the flooding in Windsor, CO today along county road 19 as the Cache La Poudre River was overflowing it’s banks. The footage he shot shows the water over several roads and fields west of Greeley and south of Windsor, CO.
On Monday Evening BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was chasing tornadic storms that pummeled parts of the Nebraska panhandle. The storms brought several weak tornadoes, very strong winds, gigantic hail, and very heavy rains.
In the video package that Tony shot, it opens up with various sky shots of turbulent, rotating clouds over the north side of Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The video transitions to during storm with very large hail falling and very strong winds blowing hailstones and leaves around while drivers were seeking shelter under a church overhang. The next few clips show Three (3″) inch and larger hailstones against a ruler to show the size of the hail that was falling in the area. The video ends with footage of minor road flooding in Scottsbluff, NE along with a several grain silos that were blown across some railroad tracks along US-26 east of Scottsbluff, NE.
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Several rounds of severe storms pummel northeast Colorado. Video package includes severe weather scenes from Morgan County just west of Fort Morgan. Opening scenes of supercell from a distance as chasers approach. Next scenes of cloud decks under the storm’s updraft. Video transitions to hail and high winds as storm unloads along I-76 west of Fort Morgan. The storm dumped 1.50″ hail as measured in one-scene where a hailstone is put against a half-dollar coin. Last scene of a bus that overturned during the storm, sliding from the eastbound lanes across the westbound lanes before rolling to a stop off the west median. 1 injury was reported in the crash.
The Big Thompson River that runs through Estes Park, CO which is about twenty miles west of Loveland, CO and fifty miles northwest of Denver, CO is at flood stage this weekend. The public works department was trying to secure the historic water wheel on the west end of down town which was slamming around due to the very high water in the Big Thompson River. Flood waters is starting to go over the river banks and flood parking lots and walk ways.
The flooding is due to the rapid snow melt in the nearby mountains as warmer summer weather moves into the area.
Tony Laubachs crew chased while Tony took a day off and Dann Cianca sent this video in for Tony that shows a tripoded view of a beautiful tornado near Campo, Colorado. This white tube was shot in HD and contains a rainbow appearing at the tornado’s base in the second scene.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi “Tornado Tim” Baker documented this tornado that formed over Denver International Airport while planes are landing. Video shows a wall cloud and then a thin funnel cloud that looks like it is touching down in the distance as planes are on final approach to land. Additional footage of hail covering the roads around the airport.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was out with the Twistex.org research team today for the storms in Colorado.
A massive hail storm hit east of Denver, CO today in Hudson and Wiggins Counties. Hail fell for over a half an hour in some area and piled up to almost a foot deep. Snow plows were out trying to clear the hail covered roads for motorists and emergency vehicles.
In the video which is over eight minutes long, it documents the large hail and the destruction to vehicles and vegetation as the hail smashed into motorists and ripped the leafs from the trees.
Additional footage shows hail falling in a lake and in a creek with water splashing from the large hail stones falling at terminal velocity from the severe thunderstorm.
The video includes a lot of various shots of the hail storm and aftermath of the hail storm including why it is not a good idea to block the underpasses by parking under them during a hail storm as emergency vehicles can not get through.
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This is the full report of the May 24, 2010 tornado outbreak in the Dakotas by BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach with HD footage of the storm chase in western South Dakota that ended in North Dakota.
This video starts out with a large wedge tornado along SD highway 73, just to the southeast of Bison, South Dakota as it moved north/northwest.
Video package opens with a handheld shot of the large wedge tornado looking to the southeast. Next shot is a handheld wide shot of the entire rotating meso-cyclone.
Following shots include steady dash-mount shots during the tornado’s life cycle. Tornado transitions into a stout cone as it crosses SD-73 southeast of Bison. Last shot of rope out looking west.
The next clip shows a rope tornado in Adams County, North Dakota about 10 miles north of the SD/ND border and just west of ND-49. Video is the RAW video as the white skinny tornado touches down and dissipates.
The remaining footage includes video of the damage to a remote school house at the southeast corner of the junction of SD-73/SD-20.
School name is unknown as there were no signs. Nobody was in the school at the time the tornado hit. This damage was caused by the Bison, SD tornado at the start of this video. There is various shots of the inside and outside of the damaged school. Roof was displaced nearly 100 yards to the northwest of the school in the middle of a field.
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This is part 1 of 2 from May 24 video package. Damage video and raw North Dakota tornado are included in second video package.
Large cone/wedge tornado along SD-73 southeast of Bison, South Dakota as it moved north/northwest. Video package opens with a handheld shot of the large wedge tornado looking to the southeast. Next shot is a handheld wide shot of the entire rotating meso. Following shots include steady dash-mount shots during the tornado’s life cycle. Tornado transitions into a stout cone as it crosses SD-73 southeast of Bison. Last shot of rope out looking west.
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May 22, 2010, Amazing tornado outbreak across northern South Dakota. Opening shot of a large, violent, wedge tornado 3 miles north of Bowdle, South Dakota. Next shot a zoomed in, close up shot (full screen, max zoom) of a high-tension tower crashing to the ground as the wedge tornado approached (pretty cool shot). Next shot as wedge transitions into a very stout cone tornado. Next shot of a drive-by of a damaged house along US-12 west of Bowdle. Next shot of the wedge with a cemetery in the foreground. Next shot of one of the day’s first tornadoes developing and touching down east of Lowry, SD. Next shot approaching the Bowdle wedge from the west along US-12. Next shot of a tornado north of Roscoe, SD that is hollowed out on the bottom of the funnel. Last scene of a low contrast needle tornado north of Ipswich, SD.
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SID: Tony Laubach
May 22, 2010 – High Def footage of a violent wedge tornado hit north central South Dakota on Saturday evening near the small town of Bowdle, SD.
Video starts out with a Cone tornado about a mile away. Chris Collura is recording the tornado in the second clip while taking cover in a ditch as winds gusting to over 70 miles as the rear flank downdraft of the tornadoes winds hit the area while other chasers drive towards the large tornado.
Video continues with a side POV shot while driving as a huge tornado is just a half mile away.
The rest of the footage shows a huge wedge tornado with close-up shots of the side of the tornado with debris flying in the air with a pull back show to show the whole tornado. Video ends with various shots of the tornado along the road about a mile away from the camera man.
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SID: Chris Collura
May 22, 2010 Part two of the video of a violent long track tornado hit the area around Bowdle, South Dakota today which is west of Aberdeen, SD.
In this video from BNVN Weather Paparazzi Scott Weberpal was tracking a large wedge tornado on the ground as it moved over open country. The tornado then went on to hit and destroy a high tension power line.
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SID: Scott Weberpal
May 22, 2010 – A violent long track tornado hit the area around Bowdle, South Dakota today which is west of Aberdeen, SD. This is a short video from BNVN Weather Paparazzi Scott Weberpal of a large cone tornado and a wedge tornado on the ground.
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SID: Scott Weberpal
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Scott Weberpal was in Lusk, WY when Nickel to Quarter size hail fell on vehicles and causing some minor flooding as the hail stones started to pile up.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Scott Weberpal was out storm chasing today in Wheatland, WY which is north of Cheyenne, WY where this tornadic storm produced a brief tornado over open country for several minutes.
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SID: Scott Weberpal
Storm chasers Tony Laubach and Ed Grubb where chasing a rain wrapped tornado tonight in Kingfisher County, OK.. They were able to get within a mile of the tornado before it was obscured from view by the rain and hail.
A late night severe thunderstorm exploded just south of Dumas and rolls into town dropping golf ball sized hail in town. Residents and visitors were awakened by the sound of hail crashing on the roof. Video package was shot from Comfort Inn hotel as the storm rolled through. Videographer was awakened and ran outside in bare feet to shoot the end of this storm.
Opening scene of hail slamming and bouncing in grass. Next shot of a car getting hit by falling hail. Another wide shot of hail bouncing on the grass and nearby puddles. Another shot includes hail bouncing off hotel roof. Various aftermath shots of golf ball hail in videographer’s hands as well as the ground dotted with golf ball hailstones. http://www.bnvn.com
Description: A prelude to tomorrow’s severe potential unfolded across the Texas Panhandle on Tuesday with several tornadoes touching down, including those included with this video package.
Opens up with funnel and shots of two tornadoes along TX-152 just east of Dumas, Texas. Both tornadoes were brief with the first exhibiting multi-vortex structure. The second was a brief stout cone tornado.
Next shots of very large hail in Moore County. Several shots during the end of the storm where scattered stones over 2 inches in diameter are falling. Hail segment ends with two shots of large, spiky hail in hand.
Finals shots of various stormy clouds across Moore County. http://www.bnvn.com
5/16/2010 A massive hail storm struck the Oklahoma City, OK area on Sunday 05/16/2010 with hail the size of golf balls to softballs. This footage by BNVN Weather Paparazzi Justin Teaque shows Vehicles seeking shelter under the Interstate 44 overpass as golf ball to tennis ball size hall falls from the sky. The heavy rain along with the hail made driving very dangerous and damage reports are into the millions of dollars at this time from the extreme hail storm.
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