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• Waldo Wall Cloud Event - Time Lapse (x15) (Jim Carr / KC4MHH)
  Date: July 16, 2000
  Time: Approx. 3:40 PM ET
  Location: Waldo, FL
  Camera Used: Cannon Ultura digital vidcam (dash-mounted)
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Auto-focus/auto-iris
  Lens Used: Raynox wide-angle lens
  Speed: 15x
  01:23 [ 46 MB ] [ standard format ]

  Time-lapse video of a possible wall cloud passing over the city of Waldo, Florida. (We're not really sure what it is...some area of inflow for sure. If a wall cloud, it would be the first one ever caught on videotape in Alachua County.) There were warnings issued for that area at tha time.

  UPDATE - 05/30/2011: I did have Chuck Doswell take a look at it and he advised "It looks like a true, rotating wall cloud to me, but it dissapates quickly, likely being undercut by outflow."

  [See full-length video.]

• Anvil Underside
  Date: April 28, 2011 - 1541 Hours ET
  Location: NW Gainesville, FL
  Camer Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Manual focus
  Lens Used: Raynox wide-angle lens
  1:59 [ 59 MB, Quicktime movie ] [ widescreen format ]

  This is a time-lapse movie of the underside of a huge thunderstorm anvil slowly crossing over Gainesville on the afternoon of April 28, 2011. To the eye, anvils just seem to sort of sit in one place, looming over entire towns. But if you could speed up time, you'd see how they actually move.

  The actual video is about 28 minutes long. It has been sped up by 2000% by the video editing software so that the time lapsed is just 1 minute and 30 seconds. The video was taken from my front lawn.

  There are three viewing angles involved. The first one starts off looking to the south. This cuts to a view to the northwest above the rooftop of my home. The third cut is looking to the southwest.

  This is one of my first experimentations with time lapse photography. In the future I hope to get some shots of thunderstorm formation, and some night-time video of storms and stuff.

• Fair Weather Cumulus Burn-off
  Date: May 12, 2011 - 1600 Hours ET
  Location: NW Gainesville, FL
  Camer Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Manual focus
  Lens Used: Raynox wide-angle lens
  1:34 [ 34 MB, Quicktime movie ] [ widescreen format ]

  This is a time-lapse movie of some simple fair weather cumulus lazilly moving northwest to southeast across the sky, while being burned away by the bright sun. Kinda looked like suds on the roof. Less special effects, the actual video is only about a minute long. I was anxious to do something wih the camera. :)

  The time compression is 2000%, x20, or 20 minutes compressed into 1.

• Thunderstorms
  Date: May 14, 2011 - 1104 Hours ET
  Location: NW Gainesville, FL
  Camera Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Manual focus
  Lens Used: Raynox wide-angle lens
  1:52 [ 117 MB, Quicktime movie ] [ widescreen format ]

  This is a time-lapse movie of some thunderstorms. First scene is part of an anvil from the passing frontal storms from my front yard looking south. Second scene is of the pouring rains and strong winds which eventually fade to calm taken from my front porch looking north. The third scene is taken from my back yard looking north, showing the passage of accessory cloudage after the passage of the frontal storms.

  The time compression is 2000%, or x20.

• Post-Front Passage
  Date: May 14, 2011 - 1758 Hours ET
  Location: Alachua, FL
  Camera Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Manual focus
  Lens Used: Raynox super wide-angle lens 0.5x
  1:28 [ 34 MB, Quicktime movie ] [ widescreen format ]
  [ ALTERNATE: YouTube ]

  This is a time-lapse movie of the sky at 1800 hours on the same day, after the front had passed through Alachua County into Marion County.

  The time compression is 2000%, or x20.

• Thunderstorm Over Stevi B's Pizza (HD)
  Date: May 28, 2011 - 2045 Hours ET
  Viewing Location: NW 13th St & NW 39th Ave, Stevi B's Pizza, FL
  Camera Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Manual focus
  Lens Used: Raynox super wide-angle lens 0.5x
  0:40 [ 79 MB, Quicktime movie ] [ widescreen format ]
  [ ALTERNATE: YouTube ]

  This is a time-lapse movie of a thunderstorm in southern Alachua County as it appeared over Stevi B's Pizza on NW 13th Street in Gainesville at 8:45 pm. There was a lot of lightning in it, but unfortunately, low clouds moved in front of the storm, obscuring the view after the first ten to fifteen minutes. The video is 40-seconds long, covering a time span of 14 minutes, from 8:45 to 8:59pm, EDT. This is a plain version, without any opening titles or credits. Oh and, by the way, my girlfriend Kathy and I are sitting at the extreme left edge of the large window to the immediate left of the "Stevi B's" sign. Occasionally you can see us get up to move around. :O)

  Time compression is 2000%, or 20X.

• Thunderstorm Over Stevi B's Pizza (Modified Version - HD)
  Date: May 28, 2011 - 2045 Hours ET
  Viewing Location: NW 13th St & NW 39th Ave, Stevi B's Pizza, FL
  Camera Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Manual focus
  Lens Used: Raynox super wide-angle lens 0.5x
  1:18 [ 90 MB, Quicktime movie ] [ widescreen format ]
  [ ALTERNATE: YouTube ]

  This version has been modified slightly to display the lightning better.

  Time compression is mostly 2000% (20X), except during occasions of lightning, during which the speed is temporarily slowed down to normal rate.

  It's a little more herky-jerky, but displays the lightning much better.

• Shear/Convergence Boundary (HD)
  Date: June 30, 2011 - 1352 Hours EDT
  Viewing Location: NW 53rd Ave, across from Home Depot, Gainesville, FL
  Camera Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Portrait, Manual focus
  Lens Used: Raynox super wide-angle lens 0.5x (initially), camera's own lens (final scene)
  1:26 [ 98 MB, Quicktime movie ] [ widescreen format ]
  [ ALTERNATE: YouTube ]

  According to Chuck Doswell, this appears to be a shear or convergence boundary. Although it looks like a gust front, you'll note that is actually not moving outwards like gust fronts do. In fact quite the opposite is happening. It is actually where two boundaries are colliding and it is where convergence occurs that storms can be initiated.

  Even though this was nothing severe, this was still very interesting to me. Lots of movement. Cool stuff.

  The first scene is looking towards the east, to the east of the thunderstorm downdraft. The second scene is looking towards the SW, west of the downdraft area. The final scene is looking directly at the downdraft area.

  Time compression is 2000%, or 20X.

• Gust Front Passage Over Lowes - July 26, 2011
  Date: July 26, 2011 - 1323-1343 Hours ET
  Viewing Location: Lowes Home Improvement, NW 13th St, Gainesville, FL
  Camer Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Manual Iris
  Lens Used: Raynox super wide-angle teleconverter lens 0.5x
  01:20 [ 84 MB ] [ widescreen format ]
  ALTERNATE: [ YouTube ]

  While making a deposit at the bank, I noticed this gust front quickly making it's way across NW 13th Street. I raced over to the Lowes parking lot and set up and took this video of the front as it passed overhead.

  The first shot is looking NE over the Bank of America on NW 13th Street. Subsequent shots were taking looking back over Lowes, itself, more towards the SW.

  This stuff, to me, is so fascinating to watch, especially in time lapse. It's like watching some sort of an upside-down ocean wave breaking across the surface of some invisible "beach" layer in the atmosphere. Looks almost the same to me. ...And look at how fast it moves, too! Then it slowly loses energy and just sortuh falls apart, breaking up in the end.

  The actual time span of the event as filmed is twenty minutes. Once home, I created this compressed time lapse video, which covers the whole event in one minute.

  Time compression is 2000%, or 20X.

• Alachua County Thunderstorms - September 19, 2011
  Date: September 19, 2011 - 1655-1732 Hours ET
  Viewing Location: NW Gainesville, FL
  Camera Used: Canon HV-20 HD vidcam
  Camera Mode: Manual Iris
  Lens Used: Canon WD-H43 wide-angle teleconverter lens
  01:50 [ 148 MB ] [ widescreen format ]
  ALTERNATE: [ YouTube ]

  The actual time span of the event as filmed is 38 minutes.

  Time compression is 2000%, or 20X.

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