5/24/2011 Canton, OK Violent Tornado Up Close And Personal.

Amazing close up footage of the Canton, Oklahoma tornado shot by TWISTEX researchers and BNVN Weather Paparazzi’sTony Laubach and Ed Grubb. Video contains life cycle of the Canton tornado including some close up multi-vortex action. Various shots as tornado narrowly misses a casino north of town and moves out over Canton Lake where it turns almost white. Good, close-up footage of the tornado as it violently moved to the lake tearing up trees as it went along.

Final couple shots of Fairview tornado.

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SID: Tony Laubach

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5/22/2011 Joplin, MO Tornado damage aftermath.

Parts of Joplin, MO were laid to waste today as a violent tornado hit the area.

In this video by BNVN Weather Paparazzi Brandon Sullivan, it shows a close up then zoom out to wide shot on a gas station that was completely demolished.

Brandon said that their was a fire raging amidst a field of devastation along with dozens of cars that were flipped over and mangled horribly.

As the sun was setting, the national guard was moving into secure the area as a few citizens racing around on the 4wheeler with widespread total loss in the background.

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5/21/2011 Topeka, KS Tornadic storm and large hail

Intense storms moved across eastern Kansas with a tornadic storm hit Reading Kansas and moved into the Topeka, KS metro area. BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was in Topeka, KS with Team Twistex for Discovery Channels Storm Chasers as the storm was dropping hail up to tennis-ball size as well as tornadoes north and east of town.

In the video that Tony shot of this storm, it starts out with a wall cloud and funnels as storm moves across the Topeka, KS metro area. The opening shots show a large funnel churning away behind some trees near Interstate 70. As the video continues, it shows a rapidly rotating wall cloud almost directly overhead on the northeast side of Topeka. The storm chase had to stop as tree’s were blocking the path and traffic was forced to turn around.

As the video continues it shows some intense hail from the tornadic supercell that fell around Topeka, KS. The footage include various shots of hail falling on the highways with vehicles driving through it. A shot of people blocking an I-70 overpass hiding from the hail. The footage ends with video of storm chasers holding large hailstones to show how big the hail was.

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8/16/2008 Harmon Killebrew signing autographs at the Mall Of America with Carlos Gomez.

8/16/2008 Harmon Killebrew & Carlos Gomez Signing Autographs.

Raw footage of Hall of Fame Baseball player Harmon Killebrew from the Minnesota Twins and Carlos Gomez who was with the Twins at the time of this video in 2008, were at the Mall of America to sign autographs as part of Twins Fest.

Footage of the players talking to fan’s and signing autographs for fan’s.

Catalog ID: 08162008_Twinsfest_MOA
Total Run Time: 10:07:16
Format: 4×3 Standard Definition

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