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                   Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 10:42PM CDT

July 13 storms; July 1 tornado details; photo re-edits

By DAN ROBINSON
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From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field.

July 1 chase account: The final chase account for the July 1 Illinois tornadoes is complete, with many images, detailed GPS/time data, and an extended video clip. View it here.

July 13 storms: A very unusual upper low moving westward was the setup on Saturday, one I wasn't quite sure how to play. I ended up watching the day evolve from home, then went out for a short 1 hour chase to the south at sunset. Lots of pileus caps were observed on the convection from Okawville to Marissa. This was near Venedy, looking west:

A more established storm loomed to the east at sunset behind the Prairie State Power Plant at Marissa:

All convection quickly dissipated after sunset.

Photo re-edits: I've been going through the photo archives this week, locating some images that could benefit from some more advanced editing as well as lightning images that could be stacked. Here's a sampling of those:

Okawville, IL post-tornado lightning show, September 25, 2012:

Oklahoma prairie scene, April 2009:

Intense lightning at Biscoe, Arkansas on May 1, 2010:

Lightning and dramatic clouds at Vergennes, Illinois, June 2011:

Sunset rain showers at New Baden, Illinois, September 2010:

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