Author: Doug

The Aurora Borealis brought autumn colors that filled the fall skies in central Minnesota tonight. The Northern Lights were spectacular with bright red, green, whites, purple and some orange color filling the sky. 

The Auroras are from the latest geomagnetic storm that arrived earlier then expected and from the CME that burst from the sun a few days ago.  At one point the Auroras were directly over head and even pointed into the southern sky. 

Footage of the rapidly changing fall colors from Northern Minnesota around Lutsen, MN in the Sawtooth Mountain range along the north shore of Lake Superior.

Various footage of wide and very close up from on top of Moose Mountain and along the Temperance River valley.

Clip 1 Shot of the National Forest sign welcoming visitors to the Fall Color Tour in the Sawtooth Mountains.

Clip 2 Fall colors from on top of Moose Mountain

Clip 3 Pan shot on top of Moose Mountain

Clip 4 – 5 Fall colors along the Temperance River valley.

Clip 6 Driving along the Temperance River valley.

Clip 7 Traffic checking out the colors

Clip 8 – 9 Fall colors from on top of Moose Mountain

Clip 10 Tight shot with a fast pull back on top of the mountain.

Clip 11 Medium shot of lots of color

Clip 12 Tight shot of lots of color

Clip 13 – 18 Wide shot of lots of color

Clip 19 – 20 Medium shot of lots of color

Clip 21 – 25 Tight shots of colors

Clip 26 – 27 Wide shot of color and Lake Superior in the distance

Clip 28 Wide shot of colors from on top of the mountain

Clip 29 Medium shot of contrasting colors of Orange and Green showing the 50% color change.

Clip 30 – 31 Tight shots of color

Clip 32 POV driving shots under a canopy of color.

Clip 33 36 Tight shots of fall colors.

SID: Douglas Kiesling

StormChasingVideo.com

Thunderstorms with high winds and heavy rain impacted the the northern parts of the Twin Cities metro area this morning.  Footage shot in the heart of downtown Minneapolis as the southern part of the line of storms moved through the metro area.

Clip 1  POV shot as while driving on Interstate 494 on the west side of town as the line of storms moved in.

Clip 2 Skyline shot of the city in the rain

Clip 3 Two women walking in heavy rain with an Umbrella

Clip 4 A couple walking in the rain along Nicollet Mall. Pull back and pan shot.

Clip 5 Women walking towards the camera with an umbrella

Clip 6 People walking in the rain on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis

Clip 7 Man walking with an umbrella

Clip 8 Two women in the rain waiting to cross the street under an Umbrella

Clip 9 People walking in the rain

Clip 10 Women on a bike waiting for the light to change in the rain

Clip 11 People in the rain with some farmers market booths

Clip 12 Farmers market merchant wearing garbage bags as a rain coat

Clip 13 – 15 Someone walking under an umbrella

Clip 16 Traffic in the rain

Clip 17 Someone walking in the rain under an umbrella

Thunderstorms with high winds and heavy rain impacted the the northern parts of the Twin Cities metro area this morning.  Footage shot in the heart of downtown Minneapolis as the southern part of the line of storms moved through the metro area.

Clip 1  POV shot as while driving on Interstate 494 on the west side of town as the line of storms moved in.

Clip 2 Skyline shot of the city in the rain

Clip 3 Two women walking in heavy rain with an Umbrella

Clip 4 A couple walking in the rain along Nicollet Mall. Pull back and pan shot.

Clip 5 Women walking towards the camera with an umbrella

Clip 6 People walking in the rain on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis

Clip 7 Man walking with an umbrella

Clip 8 Two women in the rain waiting to cross the street under an Umbrella

Clip 9 People walking in the rain

Clip 10 Women on a bike waiting for the light to change in the rain

Clip 11 People in the rain with some farmers market booths

Clip 12 Farmers market merchant wearing garbage bags as a rain coat

Clip 13 – 15 Someone walking under an umbrella

Clip 16 Traffic in the rain

Clip 17 Someone walking in the rain under an umbrella

Severe storms filled the sky over El Reno, OK today.  Footage shot at the location of the makeshift memorial to team Twistex where they car was hit by the tornado on May 31, 2013.

Footage includes various shots of lightning over an open field, with and without the memorial sign in the foreground.  Additional shots of lightning and POV shot of driving in the heavy rain to get out a head of the storm. 

Severe storms brought heavy rain, high winds and vivid lightning to west central Minnesota on Saturday afternoon. 

Footage shows the storms that hit the Pope County, MN area which is about 100 west of the Twin Cities metro area. 

Clip 01  High winds blow large construction debris across the road in front of the camera.

Clip 02 – 03 POV shots of high winds gusting over 50 miles per hour.

Clip 04 Storm front moving from the west near the town of Starbuck, MN

Clip 05 – 11 B-Roll of lightning and the storm front moving towards the camera near Starbuck, MN

Clip 12 Line of storms over taking area.

Clip 13 Lowering behind the leading edge.

Clip 14 – 15 Driving in high winds with lowering clouds

Clip 16 POV shot of very close lightning

Clip 17 Lightning after dark.

A large tornado formed on the tornado warned storm just south of Hill City, MN which is in Aitkin County, MN.  The tornado can be seen just north of the cameramans position which was just south of Hill City, MN on Highway 169.

Additional storm footage and hail footage from southern Aitkin County, MN.

Clip 01 Large tornado crossing Highway 169

Clip 02 Looking north on 169 at the area of rotation

Clip 03 Looking north on 169 at the area of rotation with other stringers in the shot across the road.

Clip 04 – 05 Just south of Hill City, MN looking to the north at the area of rotation

Clip 06 – 07 Under the meso area just south of Hill City, MN

Clip 08 Storm clouds south of Hill City, MN

Clip 09 – 13  Southern Aitkin County storm clouds approaching.

Clip 14 Time Lapse of the storm clouds approaching with vivid motion.

Clip 15  – 20 POV shot of the storm hitting with high winds and large hail near McGregor, MN.

A tornado warned storm moved across Northern Minnesota in Otter Tail County along highway 10 from Pelican Rapids to Wadena, MN on Monday evening. 

Clip 1 Wall Cloud

Clip 2 Wall Cloud

Clip 3 Leading edge of the storm between New York Mills and Wadena. 

Clip 4 Brief funnel cloud east of New York Mills.

Clip 5 Lightning POV

Clip 6 Driving in High Winds on highway 10 with winds over 55 miles per hour.

Clip 7 Hail falling

Clip 8 Driving in high winds and hail on highway 10

Clip 9 Winds over 60 miles per hour on Highway 10

Clip 10 Shelf cloud

Clip 11 – 12 Base of the updrafts near Wadena, MN

Who let the dogs out because after an unusually cool and sometimes cold summer in Minneapolis, MN, the  Dog days of summer have finally arrived this week.

Footage shot around the south beach of  Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, MN

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Clip 1 People on a paddle boards on Lake

Clip 2 People at South Beach on lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.

Clip 3 People walking their dog (dog days)

Clip 4 Two women running with their dog and run right up to the camera next to the fountain with a dish with water for the dogs.

Clip 5 Low shot of a dog walking by the camera.

Clip 6 Medium shot of people in the water at the beach with the skyline in the background

Clip 7 Medium shot of two women standing in the lake.

Clip 8 – 9 Life guards looking out over the water.

Clip 10 Someone running

Clip 11 People walking and running past the camera

Clip 12 A couple walking past the camera

Clip 13 A man helping a young girl get a drink from the well fountain

Clip 14 Group of people biking on the bike path

Clip 15 People out on the diving platform on the lake.

Clip 16 – 17 People playing volleyball

Ahhh, I know it has been a LONG time since I have updated my personal blog page.  The good news is that the real page, StormChasingVideo.com which was my main master project is always being updated with new content.

So what have I been up to for this summer?  The northern plains chase season has been pretty much a bust which is ok by me.  It has given me time to reflect on life and work more on my company.  We (all of us) have been working on some great new exciting stuff for the later half of 2013 Hurricane and Winter seasons and the upcoming 2014 chase season. 

Now what have I been doing with my summer?  I wish I could say I have been scuba diving a lot more then I have but life happens…  The good news is when I did get some diving in, all the working out I have been doing has paid off.  Since losing a lot of weight, the amount of weight I need in my dive belt has dropped big time. 

Speaking of weight, here is a photo Neva took of me at the gym a while back.  Yes I am really lifting 1,200 lbs with my legs.  I guess you could say I’m in training for “Round Two”…

So with a lack of severe weather, I have been spending a lot of time at the gym getting back in shape and just overall having fun working out and hope to take on the Timber Dash 5K again this year.

Now back to the chase…  Here is what I have been working on for the last few months. 

In June, there was a few storms that hit close to home.

Even the Aurora’s have been pretty slow this summer.  I have been able to see them only twice in June and not at all in July.  Here is the footage from late June near Alexandria. 6/29/2013 Alexandria, MN Auroras Borealis.

For almost a month, there was no weather happening, just cool and boring up north.  I got to the point where it was so cold that in the last week of July, over my birthday weekend, I actually shot some footage for TWC of it looking more like October in July in Minnesota.

One of the best parts of the trip up north this year to scout out locations was hanging out with Neva and not having to worry about work and the Alpine Slide.  Yeah I wiped out on the slide but it was still fun!

So for my area, Minnesota pretty much went the whole month of July without any severe weather.  The next major severe storm was last week and that was just a hail event that I was able to avoid getting smashed up in and made it around the storm to a gas station just in time.

So what is in store for the next month?  More scuba diving where I hope the weather does not blow out the dive trip.  More chasing and getting the new full time chase truck up and running before winter.