INSANE Hurricane Alex video!
Posted on July 9th, 2010
Extreme storm chasers Jim Edds and Jeff Gammons traveled to South Padre Island Inlet in Texas to intercept the landfall of Hurricane Alex. While filming with his trademark surge cam, Jim is at one point washed away by the powerful storm surge! Later, they encounter some tense moments as the surge washes away the road beneath their vehicle! ! Check out Jim's and Jeff's websites for more, below! www.extremestorms.com www.stormvisuals.com
Tags: 2010, alex, away, cameraman, category, Extreme, Flooding, HURRICANE, Island, june, Mexico, Padre, South, surf, surge, texas, wash, waves
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Hurricane Opal – Fort Walton Beach, FL – October 4, 1995
Posted on June 2nd, 2010
This is a sample of my Hurricane Opal chase footage. This video was taken during Opal's landfall in the western Florida panhandle, at Fort Walton Beach, on October 4, 1995. A day prior to landfall, Hurricane Opal had strengthened rapidly to near Category Five intensity, with sustained winds of 150mph and a minimum central pressure of 916mb (27.05in). During the following twelve hours the storm steadily weakened, however, Opal was still a very large and powerful Category Three at landfall, with sustained winds of 125mph and a central pressure of 942mb (27.82in). Hurricane conditions begin at about 3min 30sec into the video and the eyewall occurs from 4min 50sec through 7min 40sec in. Peak winds at my location were sustained between 100-110mph with gusts to 140mph. The highest officially recorded surface wind in Opal was a gust to 144mph at Hurlburt Field, near Mary Esther, Florida, in southwest Okaloosa county, which was three miles west of my location. The highest storm surge at my location was approximately 13ft and with the ground elevation at 8-10ft above sea-level, this resulted in a surge depth of 3-5ft, with higher waves. The peak surge and maximum inundation occurs just prior to the eye/calm at about 9min 40sec into the video. Though the eastern edge of Opal's eye did pass over my location, winds never fell below 20-30mph, I did record a minimum pressure of 960.3mb (28.36in) during this time.
Tags: 1995, Cyclone, Extreme, Florida, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, meteorology, Opal, Severe, storm, surge, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, wind
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Hurricane Fran – Carolina Beach, NC – September 5, 1996
Posted on April 1st, 2010
Hurricane Fran moves over Carolina Beach, North Carolina on the afternoon and evening of September 5, 1996. The storm made landfall directly over this area with maximum sustained winds of 115mph and a minimum central pressure of 954mb (28.17in).
Tags: 1996, Carolina, Cyclone, Extreme, Fran, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, North, Severe, storm, Storms, surge, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, wind
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Hurricane Katrina Part One
Posted on February 27th, 2010
www.hurricanetrack.com This segment is from my 2005 DVD entitled "Tracking the Hurricanes: 2005". Here, in part one, I begin tracking hurricane Katrina with my colleague, Mike Watkins, in south Florida. From there, Mike and I head over to the coast of Mississippi to complete the mission of observing and documenting one of the deadliest hurricanes in US history. However, the story does not end with landfall as we will see in part two.
Tags: chaser, Florida, gulfport, HURRICANE, katrina, mark, mike, mississippi, Rain, storm, sudduth, surge, watkins, waveland, wind
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Hurricane Katrina Part 3- post Katrina Mississippi
Posted on February 2nd, 2010
tipjoy.com www.hurricanetrack.com This is the third part of my three part series of videos from the "Tracking the Hurricanes: 2005" DVD of hurricane Katrina. This video picks up 47 days after Katrina along the battered coast of Mississippi. We make our way to Waveland where my colleague and I were going to ride out Katrina in the "safety" of the fire department (make sure you watch parts one and two to understand the sequence of events). We interview fire chief David Garcia as we drive through an almost completely flattened Waveland. The video does not begin to convey the enormity of the devastation there. I end the Katrina section with a music tribute that I composed and performed myself just for the DVD. I think you will find it moving. You can learn more about our work at www.hurricanetrack.com
Tags: aftermath, biloxi, gulfport, HURRICANE, katrina, mark, mike, mississippi, recovery, storm, sudduth, surge, watkins, waveland
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Hurricane Hugo (High Quality) – 20th Anniversary – September 17-18, 1989
Posted on January 1st, 2010
Between September 16th and 22nd, 1989 one of the most infamous and disasterous hurricanes in Atlantic history, Hugo, devastated portions of the Caribbean and South Carolina. From the evening of the 17th through the morning of the 18th, the US Virgin Islands, and the northeastern tip of Puerto Rico bore the brunt of Hugo's exceptional violence. Alongside the thousands of residents who suffered through the terrifying experience, a small group of veteran storm chasers, including myself, had the ...
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Hurricane Katrina Part Two
Posted on November 15th, 2009
www.hurricanetrack.com This is the second part of the three part series of my Katrina documentary. This comes from my successful "Tracking the Hurricanes: 2005" DVD which chronicles the landfalling US hurricanes during the historic 2005 hurricane season. In part two, the action really begins. It is now daytime on August 29, 2005 and Katrina is making landfall along the central Gulf Coast. I am in Gulfport, Mississippi working with colleague Mike Watkins. We are seeking refuge at a hotel near ...
Tags: coast, gulf, gulfport, HURRICANE, katrina, mississippi, storm, surge, wind
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Hurricane Katrina Sample Footage Hurricane Video Stock
Posted on October 27th, 2009
Hurricane Katrina as it hits the Gulf Coast, shot by Warren Faidley. Faidley, recently called America's "Top Storm Chaser" by MSNBC.Thank you for watching our extreme storm footage. Please note the following! 1: If you wish to contact us, please do not leave me a message here, as we do not check our YouTube mail very often. Please visit www.stormchaser.com and use the contact data there. 2 For commercial licensing of this footage, please visit www.weatherstock.com 3 For consumer DVD's ...
Tags: biloxi, chaser, chasers, chasing, DAMAGE, destruction, Faidley, flood, hunters, HURRICANE, katrina, mobile, New, Orleans, storm, surge, VIDEO
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Hurricane Katrina from ground zero!
Posted on October 4th, 2009
Hurricane Katrina video from Slidell, LA as a 15 foot storm surge battered the area. TornadoVideos.net storm chasers were trapped on a second floor balcony in Slidell before catching a ride on a fishing boat, and hitch-hiking back to Oklahoma City. Check out TornadoVideos.net for more insane tornado and hurricane footage.
Tags: 2005, August, chasers, footage, HURRICANE, katrina, Louisiana, New, Orleans, slidell, storm, surge, tornadovideos.net, tvn, VIDEO
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Hurricane Fran – Carolina Beach, NC – September 5, 1996
Posted on September 12th, 2009
Hurricane Fran moves over Carolina Beach, North Carolina on the afternoon and evening of September 5, 1996. The storm made landfall directly over this area with maximum sustained winds of 115mph and a minimum central pressure of 954mb (28.17in).
Tags: 1996, Carolina, Cyclone, Extreme, Fran, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, North, Severe, storm, Storms, surge, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, wind
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