Storm B-Roll with some time lapse and tornado that briefly touched down near Mankato, MN
Shot Description
Various time lapse and real time footage of severe and tornado warned storm near Mankato, MN.
A long track supercell that developed in northeastern Wyoming tracked through the Black Hills of South Dakota before eventually moving southeast into northwestern Nebraska as part of a developing MCS that pushed into Central Nebraska late into Friday night. This storm was responsible for a brief tornado west of the town of Martin where this video package was shot. It opens in the “bear cage” with blinding rain and wind as the reported tornado moved within a mile of the photographer. Ends with minor flooding and tree damage in town.
Martin, SD is 100 miles southeast of Rapid City near the Nebraska border.
Shot Description
Clips 1-4: Driving west of town around the time of the tornado report as the rain-wrapped hook crossed US Highway 18.
Clips 5-6: Very high winds blowing rain through the grass around the car.
Clips 7-11: Shots of high winds on the backside of the storm in Martin.
Clips 12-14: Various shots of water covering US-18 in town with cars navigating through.
Clips 15-17: Shots of a large tree limb that crashed down on the back of a pickup truck.
Clip 18: Man removing tree debris from the street.
Clip 19-23: Various shots of large tree debris littering yards in town.
Clips 24-25: POV driving lightning strikes.
Several tornadoes touched down in northwestern Minnesota during the later afternoon hours in Ottertail County, MN near the town of Dalton, MN.
Footage includes multiple tornadoes and multiple angles of the same tornado that was on the ground for over ten minutes. Also included with the video are a couple of time lapse clips of the longer raw material.
Shot Description
Clip 1 Extremely large tornado with debris in the air with good audio talking about how you can smell the debris in the air.
Clip 2 – 3 Tripoded longer cuts of the tornado perfectly positioned in the shot as it moves from right to left.
Clip 4 – 5 Roof top mounted camera driving up to the tornado.
Clip 6 Timelapsed footage from all of the footage from clips 2-3. Footage speed is 1,000 times faster then the normal speed.
Clip 7 Tornado and faint rainbow in a field..
Clip 8 – 12 various clips of the tornado almost stationary in an open field.
Clip 13 Wide shot of the tornado and the storm clouds with structure.
Clip 14 Tornado stating to rope out and weaken.
Clip 15 Tornado just vanishes right in front of the camera.
Clip 16 Time lapse of all the raw footage from clips 7 to 15 of over 10 minutes of raw footage of the tornado before is vanishes.
Clip 17-18 Large Cone Tornado with debris in the rain with a white on white contrast.
SID: Melanie Metz