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Archive for July, 2010

A Sea-Breeze thunderstorm exploded at dusk off Sarasota, FL and put on a dazzling lightning show into the night.

Our footage shows dozens of people out in the open on the beach to watch the lightning on Siesta Key as lightning was striking just miles away.

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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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