Ever seen a storm with red lightning and 100+ MPH straight-line winds?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Tulsa, OK, 6/18/23
Red lightning, or sprites, are a less common form of lightning associated with high-altitude discharges in very powerful storms. Listen close for the buzzes and pops of blowing transformers, and stay tuned to the end for some photos of the aftermath.
The silence, followed by the sirens, then the wind came. Amazing build up. This would be both incredible and terrfying to witness.
This is when I usually run outside and start jacking off into the wind while screaming "take me Thor!!!!"
Typical Texas Panhandle thunderstorm that happens several times each year. Of course we build with them in mind so the power lines usually stay upright like they are suppose to and the transformers do not blow unless struck by lightening. Of course we also do not have those sort of trees and the trees we do have are deeper rooted; although limbs do get torn off occasionally. We are so use to them that they do not bother with the alert sirens either.
this happened about a week ago in arkansas. 100mil strai line winds. tornado warnings power outages
We had a derecho a couple-ish years ago here in SD, really tore things up. In one of the parks, we have these massive trees that have been in our city for well over 50 yrs and they are very deeply rooted in the ground. The storm ripped a bunch of them out like they were theater props. In another storm not too long after that, the sky turned such a bright shamrock green it was like the aliens had invaded.
Hurricane and tornado 🌪️ season in the Gulf States region began the second week of March and it will end the third week of December this year. It is usually the third week of May and ends on the third week of November. But with global warming and environmental issues affecting the earth and climate change and nature everything is now out of balance.
20 years ago, my lovely wife, my two children, and I were checking out of a hotel in Bismarck, North Dakota at 2am heading back home in northern Illinois. The desk clerk asked me which way we were going. I told her east. She pointed to the TV behind me that had the Weather Channel on indicating severe storms along our intended route and recommended we delay our departure to let the storms pass. In my cocky, overconfident ignorance... I said I am not afraid of a thunderstorm. Well buddy... two hours later we were smack dab in the middle of one of the worst, most hellish storms I've ever encountered. Straight line winds, raindrops as big as dinner plates, and golfball sized hail. I managed to stop under an overpass that acted like a venturi. The winds lifted the back of my 96 Suburban off the ground twice. The lightning was blinding and seemed to be striking everything in sight. The storm lasted for about 20 minutes... but the memories of the fear and danger I put my family through will last me a lifetime. Mother Nature will not be trifled with.
You left out the part where your wife said "I told you so" or something along those lines.
She'd be well within her rights to say "I told you so. "
That wasn't cocky, that was stupid.
GOD IS NOT TO BE MESSED WITH (STOP THE MOTHER NATURE FANTASY) GOD IS JUDGE AND BEINGS JUDGMENT IN THIS WAY AS WELL. PEOPLE NEED TO GET BACK TO GOD.
aint readin allat
I’ve seen bright green and bright blue lightning. It was quite spectacular. Unfortunately it was followed by an F4 tornado which wasn’t so great.
I saw the same thing many years ago near Huntsville Alabama then a rain wrapped EF-5 quickly followed
I've only ever seen green lightning once. It was when the eye of a hurricane passed over me. Only ever saw that tinge of green one other time and that was the next day when we were trying to assess the damage and clean up. It was just some green in a lonely little cloud. But as soon as i saw it I knew it was time to go. And, sure enough, all hell broke loose less than 20 minutes later.
I've seen purple lightning flashing about every 2 seconds while driving through arizona
Yes I have seen red lighting once in my life time and ever since I too have wondered if anyone else have seen such lighting this was on the west coast of newfoundland my home
And yet here you are
There's something so beautifully and distinctly American about just casually filming a storm on your front porch that is literally destroying transformers and trees. 10/10
The Midwesterner experience 👍
@@kiddosam8032 lmao
it's a midwestern instinct, i swear. we were under a massive tornado warning in april and pretty much everyone on the block was standing on the porch, waiting for the tornado lol
@ald7282 It may be extremely stupid, deadly, and dangerous, but seeing a force of nature like a tornado is just something else. It's got a destructive, monstrous beauty about it.
You can't hide from mother nature
Thank you for not screaming and repeating, "Oh my God" over and over again. Appreciate you allowing us to hear the storm.
agreed
When they say that, they are speaking to "mother nature", aka "the queen of heaven", aka satan.
@@repentofidolsyou are obsessed.
lmao
@@repentofidols Ok. I never thought of that before. The people who say this might be referencing the god of this world.
My mom use to wake us kids up in the middle of the night while dad was working midnights back in Midwest Illinois. She would turn the couch over and make a bed for us kids and we would have fun unawareof the danger. But once I looked at my mom and she was peering out through the curtains and the lightning flash on her face revealed real terror. She was protecting us.
Mom's. Always do that we use to get woke up like that all the time
You obviously had a great Mom.
and that chidlren is an example of a darm good parent protecting their kids and not telling them the problem so they dont freak out all while being terrified themself
W family there, y’all will be successful in life with great parenting
Sounds like a psychopath.
Those stright line winds can be terrifying. My son, 14, is deathly afraid sever thunderstorms because one time we had an extremely severe storm roll through with hail, lightning, but almost no rain. The winds were insane. They kept building and I could hear the tornado sirens in the distance. The winds kept intensifying until it sounded like a jet engine and a freight train next to our house. I yelled at him and my wife to get in the basement. He was almost hyperventilating. After the winds subsided, we learned it was just straight line winds at almost 100 mph.
"Just" straight line winds lol? I've seen some straight line winds do just as much, if not more damage than a tornado.
Poor kid 😭 Totally understand his fear though.
@@Christy.1 Straight-line winds have been known to exceed 115mph in extreme cases, which is the equivelent of a category 3 hurricane or an ef2 tornado.
Bro I am 25 and I am still batshit scared of thunderstorms (due to fear of getting struck by lightning and fear of loud banging roaring sounds of thunder), I go running like the Flash to get back home whenever I spot a storm heading my way while I am out for a long walk. A severe nightmare thunderstorm like that would give me heart attack 😢💀
That's called lilapsophobia. I have it too.
I have actually. The year was 2013 and I was in Northwest IN. Coming home from drive inn w my girlfriend ‘at the time’ and was looking in my rear view mirror. Huge long red bolts of lightning highlighting how big the storm was. Wow. It only lightly rained where I was but East mid state really got a big storm ….love to watch storms. Always have. Always will ….cool video by the way😉👍🏻
There’s nothing more terrifying than a tornado at night
yup... God puts on a blindfold and turns on the vaccum cleaner and sucks up whatever he can. LOL
That’s a derecho, not tornado
@@innocentnemesis3519you can have tornadoes in a derecho
@@patrickhamilton6677 you _can??_ Wow 🤦🏾♂
maybe two tornadoes
I have seen pink and green lightning before. Back in the late 1970's, we were under a Tornado Warning in central Alabama. As a weather nut, I was standing outside of the storm shelter, watching the storm go over. And I am NOT color blind. Other people saw the same thing that I did! Mother Nature can throw in some surprises sometimes!
Having lived all my life in the South and even a year in the Texas panhandle; the only time in my life I have seen a tornado was on the night of the tornado outbreak in 1974 in Decatur, Al. At the time I didn’t even realize what it was but it was lit an eerie red..
@@samfoden311that must've given fear to most people who probably didn't know they had
Snowstorm of '93 in NE AL had green lightning. It was scary and no one was prepared for it.
My father recalls seeing green lighting in the 1974 tornado that hit Huntsville, Al.
So you're saying storms like this happened over 50 years ago and probably much much earlier? But all of the climate activist say stuff like this is happening now because of global warming. 🙄
What a terrifyingly beautiful planet
Ikrr
Seriously!😮 what planet is this I want to move there
@@FlyWithTyy Reminds me of those crazy storms that were in Wall-E, minus all the dust and all.
@@FlyWithTyy i forgot the name, starts with an e or something
@@rotunda_ like earth im pretty sure
I saw this a few times in Indiana growing up but I have lived on the coast of MS since early 2000's and went through Katrina and several other hurricanes, so yes I have seen it. Nature is amazing! Thank you for this wonderful video!
Uncle Mark? 🤔 😂
Yes. I’ve also had lightening strike within ten feet of me. Thank god my kids and I were in my vehicle at the time. Everything went white when it happened. I hope everyone in this person’s community was safe.
I’m deathly scared of that happening to me! How loud was it?
I was working on a SAGD site in northern Alberta about 10 years ago when I had this happen too. Thankfully almost all the grounding was done, and we were in full PPE. Yelled at my apprentices to run to the van, told the GF that we were all good over the radio. Did need a new pair of shorts after that though.
Yeah, one thing you never realize about a strike that close is the smell of it. A surreal situation
@@solowundesignsbysamdavis9043 ozone right?
@@DaP84 yup
While at work, a massive storm came through my city. My coworker and I were closing, it was pitch black outside and out of quite literally nowhere, the wind picked up to probably 50 mph constant. There was massive thunder directly above us, it was so close and powerful that the building was violently shaking from the sound alone. We went into the basement and the power cut out leaving us in pitch black. The thunder was still so powerful that we could feel the ground shaking underneath us. There were two tornadoes that touched down about a mile away from us.
What's really something is when the building lifts up slightly off the foundation a bit. That's a loud sound!
Wow, 2! You were lucky you hadn't already locked up , & started driving.
Haven't seen red lightning, but I have seen green. Terrifying.
Is that when you and your co worker fell in love, in the dark basement, with only each other to hold?
@@desertweasel6965 no...? lol
Here in Missouri, on the first of August, we had a derecho storm blast through at a measured 95 mph. It hit my garage door straight on, and BUCKLED the heavy steel door. I was a weather forecaster (and taught severe weather and analysis) for 30+ years. Strongest thunderstorm I have ever seen, as far as straightline winds.
I live in Tulsa and have lived in Oklahoma my whole life. The storm in this video was without doubt the strongest storm I've ever seen. Hope to not experience it again!
This happened in St. Louis back in 2006. It was the most insane storm I have ever been through and nobody had power for 7+ days. They had to announce PSA’s over the siren system while everyone’s power was out.
@@hellsfire9892 the series of thunderstorms in the summertime. Those were two derechos that hit STL within the matter of a few days and then was a sweltering heatwave. The ice storm was also a spectacular sight to see. That was a crazy year for weather. I was about 12 years old
@@hellsfire9892 the ice storm was a little more widespread but the derechos were isolated, specifically in St. Louis city. Having no power in the freezing cold is arguably worse than not having it during a heatwave. Ameren electric made massive systemwide upgrades after 2006
@@hellsfire9892 maybe you have point! It could be preference. It’s hard to imagine how people survived 80+ years ago without air conditioning. Also, don’t underestimate a high quality down winter coat. You could ski all day when it’s -1 degree out as long as you’re bundled up appropriately
When I was a teenager in the early 70's a late spring storm kicked up on my way home from school, around 3:30pm. I was able to shelter under a friend's front porch but I saw the most beautiful hot pink lightning that day, I had never seen it before or since and of course never forgot it.
Assuming everyone was okay, I gotta say I love storms like this. The awesome power of nature gets my blood pumping! ⛈️⛈️
Yeah same I love crazy wild storms
Me too.
I agree!
Yep, Me too
Same
I was here for this storm. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever experienced. My wife and I were huddled in our hall closet because we don’t have a storm cellar. We moved to Tulsa from Oregon ~2 years ago and this was our first major storm experience in Oklahoma. Back on Oregon, we have wildfires. It’s scary, but not in the same way as this. Miraculously, our house was not damaged (we were one of the lucky ones!). We drove around the next morning and I couldn’t believe how many massive trees were just completely ripped up out of the ground (like in the photos) and how many power poles were just snapped in half. Much of Tulsa was out of power for a week or more.
I lived in Idaho and moved to Missouri. It only took 2 yrs of severe tornadoes for me to sell my house and get out of tornado alley. The intense destruction, explosive weather and wind was too much. I was petrified. I would put heavy cinder blocks on my yard furniture and it meant nothing when the winds came in the middle of the night. Some afternoons I would be sitting in the kitchen at 3pm, sunshine, nice day and in 15 minutes the sky was black, the thunder exploded and the whole neighborhood would start flashing. I learned to despise that weather- it destroyed property and created so much trauma. I have lived thru many disasters and earthquakes but I cant handle these storms.
Funny, it's the other way around for me. I grew up in southern Oklahoma and would stand on the roof waiting for these kinds of storms to arrive. Now I'm in Oregon and deal with this wildfire season shit. lmao
and you're somehow not ashamed at all to post that here on a public website?
wauw.
@@darkracer1252 What the hell does he have to be ashamed about, precisely?
@@joshuafranks3156 Ha, saaaame! I'm from SW Oklahoma originally and never flinched once at a bad storm or tornado. Always kinda dug it tbh. Now I've been living in Seattle for about 10 years, and I do love it here, but I don't think I'll ever get used to fire season! 😩😷 (also we lose power WAY more here than ever did back home, just from slightly high winds and all the trees lol)
Some of the BEST ever audio of a good storm I have ever heard!! Lighting was also fantastic!!
I live in Illinois, and we do get storms like this. I do remember some storms when I was growing up in the past.
When I was living on Clark St. in Rantoul, IL we had a storm like this, caused a lot of storm damage, that was like in the early 2000's when I had seen that storm.
I remember the April 27th, 2011 storm, it was one the most powerful storms that I ever seen, some counties in Illinois was under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch and a Tornado Watch as well. The storm arrived in the evening of almost 7:00 P.M. lots of lightning and Tornado Sirens was sounded in Rantoul, IL, because the they're was a rotation near the Rantoul area. I saw a green lightning flash through the door window, I've never seen that color of lightning in my life. That was during the Tornado Outbreak that was going on down in the southern states at the time.
And the recent storm I remember was June, 29th 2023, one of the storms that I ever seen since the April of 27th, 2011. It was so powerful that it caused a lots of power outages in several locations in Illinois that was in the path of the storm, the storm was moving at 80 MPH, that's the highest speed of a storm that I ever seen in my life. Lots of lightning, damaging winds, some hail, but a thick sheet of rain. The power was out since the storm came in, until the late night hours of the A.M. like almost 1:00 A.M. The storm caused over $800,000 in damages.
Was in a category 4 tornado in Shoreview MN, in 1996, the sky turned green/grey, the air pressure popped your ears and the triple pane storm and efficiency windows of my office bldg/campus just went “pop” and cracked…. My 1996 Toyota 4 Runner SUV was spun around 180degrees, every piece of glass was shattered including my sunroof, headlights and dash… the entire vehicle body was just thousands of hail dents and the interior was just soaked…. They totaled out the vehicle - meanwhile, my brand new, newly built home, located 4 miles away in Lino Lakes MN, had its vinyl siding destroyed on 2 sides of the house… it was surreal…
F-4 Tornado*
EF- tornadoes didn’t exist in 1996.
this reminds me of 2 years ago, we had a really bad storm. the lightning was pink and constant(strobe effect). They smell in the air smelled like rotten eggs. We also could hear this odd noises, almost like an animal squealing. We later found out that a tornado had crossed over our apartment building and hit a housing development 1/2 mile away from our home. I'm not sure what was the freakiest, the smell, the sound or the strobe pink lightning.
That smell is sulfur from the lightning strike which was very, very close to you.
@@RRb2348Ztrue
@@RRb2348Z Is "sulfur" smell being confused with ozone? I'm not aware of there being any sulfur present in lightning, but ozone definitely, though ozone is a very distinct scent.. though I suppose it can be considered "sulfur-like" if one has never smelled it before, though I'd rather think it smells more metallic.
A damaged power line arcing perhaps? They can create a very loud electrical whine, and extremely bright arcs and flashes of electricity which are sometimes bright enough to light up miles of clouds above them. They are also very hot and often set themselves and the pole (and any shrubs nearby) on fire, which could account for a sulfur smell, I imagine.
Sulfur smell? Could it beeee SAAATAAN? 👵 ⛪️
Went through one of these in a deep ditch as a kid, the funnel cloud was huge but didnt touch down. Scared us but even as an 8 year old, we KNEW what to do. We were out playing at our lake cabin in Texas and we watched it coming and found a good ditch.
My MOM and sisters were screaming at us, out of Fear because they didnt know where we were.
ALL children should be taught what to do in dangerous weather events. Saved our lives because we didnt run 300 yards back to the cabin. We got safe and rode it out
Also the reason I think all kids should have some kind of phone, not necessarily a smartphone. Just something they can use to contact their parents in a situation like that
My mother's father was of the "Tall Tales" tradition growing up in the Oklahoma territories in the 1880's. He frequently told of his friends Hy and Cy (Hyram and Cyrus) being caught up in a cyclone on the open Plains. As kids we were enraptured by these stories, but never gave them much credence. Mom would tell us that as a kid he would have them run for the nearest ditch when these big storms arose, even if it was pelting hail. He said his home was "safer" because it was partially underground and built of sod. More than 50 years ago I, too, once rode out a ferocious storm in an underpass and watched the hood of the car facing me ripped off by the vortex. Mother Nature is NOT to be messed with. Shouldn't all new home be built with storm cellars? And older ones be retrofitted?
@@sharonholdren7588not all areas can be built with underground storm cellars, the type of soil the home sits on can prevent that from happening
It’s time for homes to be better designed to withstand high winds, if I lived in tornado alley I would build a monolithic dome type of home with reinforced steel/metal rebar it would be perfect to withstand even the most intense winds as the wind would flow around the structure rather than slamming right into causing fatigue/failure of the entire structure
I lived in Florida and had a golf course property house. I loved watching a storm from the pool area. One storm was bad so I called the dogs in and as I closed the patio doors a deafening sound simultaneously with a huge orange fire ball filled my vision and threw us to the ground. We took a lightning hit. It blew out a massive hole on the corner of our concrete block house, split a big oak tree, blew out the pool pump, the well and burned the perimeter of our chain link fence. It was terrifying. We were lucky we didn’t stay in the pool cage area.
Having lived most of my 72 years in Arkansas and S.W. Missouri, I have often seen cloud to ground lightening that is bright, fluorescent pink. And those winds! Not often but a handful of times in those years we have had those hellacious winds. It's not fun. Back when I was a kid and up until the tornado hit Joplin, we never had a safe room. We just got in the bathtub with pillows and quilts or up against an interior wall. I hope nobody was hurt badly from this storm on the video!
I asked an old guy from Missouri why they didn't have basements and he said "That's the only form of birthcontrol we had in the south." LOL
@@Elysian777oh my 😂
@@Elysian777I don't understand.
@@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon
The only thing that I could figure is that there's no basement with a TV room in which to fool around (and be out of view from Mom and Dad).
@@EYE_GOTCHA So...if I'm understanding correctly; a lack of privacy was the only form of birth control?
Back in the 70s we were on a road trip and spent a few days in Colorado Springs, CO. The first night there was a huge storm with hail and blue, green, red, and yellow lightening. Never saw anything like it before or since. It was amazing to watch. Thankfully there was no hail damage or super high winds, but it is a storm we will never forget!
You know a sprite is extremely powerful when you can see it from beneath the cloud. Sprites only come off of positive CGs, so the corresponding bolt was also extremely potent.
I prefer doctor pepper but generally just drink water.
Must have been a Sprite remix.
@@Waluigi164 Same, actually. But I've been off of HFCS for a while.
Supercells are very particular. I've never met one that will accept 7Up as a substitute.
i didn’t even realize sprites could get that crazy, that’s insane. i always just figured they were too short, too high altitude, and to byproduct-ish to really be seen other than directly. that’s nuts
@@Timmy-fk8uk Sprites are very often taller than the bolt that produced them. Some are taller than the entire storm.
It’s all fun and games until you hear the sirens
I saw this here in NW Arkansas about 2 weeks ago. I'm 40 years old and lived here my entire life and have never seen this before. I was up on the roof at work and saw a bright red flash and thought it had blown up a transformer or something but never heard the explosion. It lit up the whole sky to the south of me. I thought I was nuts, thanks for posting this.
It's crazy to see it from this perspective. This storm completely uprooted and changed my life. I was in my home when our massive tree fell on the house. I thought a tornado was ripping up the house behind me, looking back that doesn't make much sense of course. Definitely the scariest moment of my life. I'll never forget the aftermath of water pouring into the house, the gas leak, and watching the storm get worse out the window all while scrambling to save what we can. Then to not have power for weeks, absolutely devastating. They're still doing construction as well. And many people dealt with much worse. I'll also never forget my dad and I driving around Tulsa at 4 a.m. that night and seeing the total destruction and darkness it left behind. I saw a tree completely cover a six-lane road. Aside from tornadoes, it was by far the worst storm devastation I've seen.
Yeah Derecho Happened Near me On July 4th And August 25th
My mom Said A Tornado Touch down Near My house
My Sister Got a Tornado Warning On Her iPhone
For a minute I was making sure I didn’t write this. Same thing. We are finally getting out house put back together.
Many people just don't understand unless they've experienced it themselves. And the trauma can really stay with you. Hope you're doing okay.
You are incredibly brave for sticking it out to get that incredible footage - especially seeing the aftermath. I salute you!
Lol it wasn't that bad. We've had much worse there. This is a yearly thing
Don’t know if brave is the word I’d use for someone who stood outside in a tornado.
@General_M wasn't a tornado it was straight line winds but i agree its very stupid tonstand outside in that kind of weather
@@khalilray2755it would be stupid to not do it at least once. That would be a rush that drugs would struggle to compete with
From somebody who lives in Florida this really isn't that bad I actually personally like this kind of weather
Props to the man standing outside and recording!
Last week I was driving through western Kansas on my way to Colorado and got caught at about 3 AM by one of these types of storms rapidly approaching, so I had to take a detour down a road in the literal middle of nowhere where I did not see any other form of life while driving. Needless to say, it’s pretty eerie to be running from a storm like this early in the morning with no one around to help you if something really bad happens.
Western Kansas SUCKS. I try to avoid it.
That's crazy you dodged a nasty storm like the one in this video and at 3 am?? Jesus talk about an adrenaline rush that's scary. Glad you are okay 👍
@@1ACLWhy does western Kansas suck?
Spent last month moving from colo. To missouri! They look like golf balls too! Kansas hides their farm houses from the road!
Feed lots are full of cattle they couldn't keep cool or fed!
WINDMILLS
Red lightning, 100+MPH winds in straight lines, heavy rain. That is a TRUE BEAST!!! And would be EPIC to capture of at my area!!!! Great EPIC video, mate!!!!
Weather Warfare; Here to help.
Notice how you only saw the red color in the distance. I believe that's because it was phenomenon called lightning sprites, also known as red sprites. They are large-scale electric discharges that occur in the mesosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds or cumulonimbus. they shoot out wards towards space instead on down to earth.🌩🙂
@@knightowl-vt8nh Indeed, mate!!
@@MrMjolnir69 That's right!!!
Wow, 82 likes?!?! Thanks alot, people!!!
Great video! I had a seasonal camper on a lake in the Northeast and we had some t-storms with straight line winds. Took down trees in the campground and across the lake. Another time we had hurricane Irma come through in Florida. Snapped power poles took down trees, transformers blowing up everywhere. Lost power for 8 days. Weather is wild!
Wow! I've been looking for videos of the Tulsa storm. My Van Halen tribute band was playing in Tulsa that night. We had just loaded up the tour bus and was about to pull out of the venue when the storm hit us. Me and the bus driver were looking outside the window and seeing stuff flying about two or three blocks away. I told everyone that we have to get inside ASAP. There was a garage door that was breathing and it felt like the whole ceiling was breathing. Pretty scary storm. My lead singer was at the back of the bus.... He didn't make it out on time and had to ride it out in the bus. Luckily he was okay but water was leaking inside because the storm blew off some of our vent covers. So glad somebody got a video of this
That’s crazy. I work at a shopper drug mart. Our power went out at 8pm. The emergency lights lasted about 20 mins. You never realize just how spooky a store can be when it’s pitch dark. Got paid for 3 hrs just sitting in the dark. Was a crazy night, power finally came back on a little after 11pm.
Oh naw we’re u alone or was it someone else working with you ?? That’s scary as hell😭
The only time I've ever seen red lightning was when lightning struck an oil tank at a refinery and blew it up. Considering the winds, what you saw might have been something similar or related to power lines getting wrecked. Looks like there were probably lots of power flashes with that too. Still a wicked storm. Thanks for sharing the experience.
This was basically a miniature inland hurricane. There were even a few tornadoes embedded in this storm. As others have mentioned, that multicolored "lightning" was in fact power flashes from electrical transformers shorting out.
To get "red lightning," which is typically referred to as a "sprite," you need a powerful thunderstorm where the electrical charge is released high into the atmosphere, causing a large-scale discharge in the mesosphere that appears as a reddish glow, usually triggered by a positive lightning strike from the cloud to the ground; this phenomenon is very rare and difficult to see with the naked eye.
Key points about red lightning (sprites):
High altitude discharge:
Unlike regular lightning which strikes the ground, sprites occur high above the thunderstorm clouds in the mesosphere.
Triggered by positive lightning:
Most often, a positive lightning bolt from the cloud to the ground initiates the formation of a sprite.
Red color:
The red appearance is due to the way the air molecules in the upper atmosphere interact with the electrical discharge.
Rarity:
Seeing a sprite is considered very rare as they are often obscured by clouds and require specific atmospheric conditions.
Your welcome if you read this all.
Wow that was something. Glad you are okay though. I kept saying “ok time to go” but couldn’t stop watching. Great video. ❤❤
I'm from Michigan and we get slammed with those straight line winds here more often than tornados. It's kinda scary because they'll come out of nowhere occasionally. No warning. 4th of July years ago one came through while the sky was blue and sunny and knocked down our neighbors massive maple, but missed ours. The tree took out part of my neighbors house, our fence, tore some of our siding, and crushed my van and the front of my mom's van. Luckily no one was hurt.
Aussie here. Experience in this country is when there is a lot of reddish/rustic lightning ahead of the main storm it is due to a lot of dust being carried in the atmosphere of the storm front. The lightning flash gets filtered through this reddish or rustic hue.
I note others have mentioned tree branches or transformers exploding, and that may also be the case.
If you don't get much rain in this type of storm, or miss the main downpour, everything gets coated in rain that has collected this fine dust and turns it into a light mud. Your vehicles look filthy as do your house windows. Any laundry left out needs to be rewashed.
You did a great job staying calm and documenting the storm. Thanks for sharing.
This was a crazy storm. My wife and I are new to Oklahoma/Tulsa and we have been here for a year; while I knew storms can get crazy, I didn't expect sirens to go off for 30min straight. My roomies were downstairs freaking out. I kinda sat in the laundry room looking out the kitchen window just watching the crazy colors.
Ive lived in Tulsa for 20yrs and have never seen anything like this.
This reminds of a storm we had in Michigan 20 years ago
I'm in north Texas. Our sirens go off when the winds go to 70 mph. We're all in tornado territory. The last few years have been insane weather. I've driven to shelter a couple of times, a nearby parking garage. HAARP ramps up the energy of weather. ..weaponized.
What a welcome to Oklahoma!
It was bad, I came through Tulsa right on the heels of that storm on Interstate 44 up to 412. We drove around lots of debris in the highway and saw one semi on its side. It seemed like the entire town was out of power, we could just see areas of emergency vehicle lights scattered in the dark! It hit Locust Grove east of Tulsa hard too.
As someone who lives in area where tornados are very rare, this was amazing!
Hi Nick.ive lived through this once. Let's just say I'm glad to be here
I live in Tulsa and remember that storm very well. Summer of '23. Over 100 MPH straight wind (as you've stated). The days following the storm were chaotic. We were without power for nearly a week.
the part when it goes silent and then the sirens start is chilling, sent shivers to my body
Terrifying.
Where Was The Shadow Monster at
I went through a very similar event. I was 7 years old. Happened at dinner time. Got dark , windy, then those SIRENS ! I will NEVER FORGET those SIRENS !!! I have retained a great respect for mother nature from that time forward. The SIRENS in this video brought back some REAL MEMORIES.
last year i was at my grandparents house when hurricane ian's eye wall hit directly around 2am where they lived, jumped up from 50 mph to 110 mph winds (stayed that way 100+ around 30 mins) , the noise outside was so loud i cant even describe it , never seen power in mother nature like that up close i will never forget it.
I’ve driven through a storm like that with 80 mph winds. It was blowing me off the road, nothing I could do. I wasn’t going to be picked up sitting still, so I just kept driving and got really lucky. I’ve also been asleep in my bed, inside a room, and saw lightning through my eye lids with my eyes closed. It was crazy. It was so close and the loudest bang I have ever heard in my life. When people say you can see an atomic bomb with your eyes closed, I can totally see why.
Awesome capture!! Thank you for sharing, and glad you are safe.
Crazy storm, right? I would have been scared to be in it. Always a tragedy to lose the trees...hope no one was injured. Thanks for sharing. 😉👍❤
Not just the lovely trees but what about the birds and squirrels in them, and other nearby creatures? Sad isn't it?
that happened to my family just a little while back in early spring a severe thunderstorm went by and are big beautiful spruce tree that's at the back of our house fell on our rv, truck and our beautiful iron wood tree splitting right down the middle if the rv wasn't placed beside our house where we had since last summer it would've gone right through our house the ford was totally total the rv has some damage but can be fixed and some new lawn stuff from last summer also got ruined too after the storm was followed by a really bad Winter Strom/ blizzard warning am just really sad at what happened to the trees they've been Thier since we moved up where we now live which has been almost twenty years now but not close yet but it feels hollow out back there now and empty it also feels like to me like we lost a family member
@@stormtellier3804 yes,I totally feel the same way about the v trees in my yard too. They are family.😉👍❤
The loss of Silver Maples is no tragedy. They're worthless trees
Great video. I've been near some lightning strikes that have done some damage, but where I live, I'm extremely glad that we do not get storms as violent as this. Our worst was in1987- I was on night shift at the power plant, and my wife and son were at home with trees in our gardens crashing down both sides of our house, luckily missing it. The roads were blocked so I could not get home and the relief shifts could not reach us.
This is the most beautiful storm i have ever seen outside of what i have seen with my own eyes.
Lived through something like this on September of 1998 during Labor Day, nothing is more terrifying then the sound of straight line 100+ MPH winds and Strobe lighting and sparks flying from a Transformer.
But it sure did make me respect and appreciate Mother Nature a lot more rather then fear her.
Where was this at?
@@Mississippian it happened in New York State, wide spread Damage from Lake Ontario down to Pennsylvania.
Edit: There is a Video about it on UA-cam from our local News station about the Labor Day storm of 98.
What a storm. Thanks for filming it.
I'd of loved to see that!! The best storm I've seen here in the UK was amazing!! The clouds where huge mushrooms and pretty low and when the lightning flashed they were lit up purple and orange! You could see them very briefly cascade into the sky, it was truly powerful and immensely impressive! That was 12 years ago now I still remember that.
i do not think you would have loved to see it. it's terrifying and dangerous
This thing cut out power in Tulsa for a week. The worst I saw from it was broken branches but you don’t want to see this.
Storms in the united states are a different breed. They're hellish monsters and I've had years of anxiety and anxiety attacks over storms as have many others- I don't even live in the "bad weather states." I live in Indiana.
It’s not fun when you are actually in it. Storms in the US are generally much worse than anything in the uk
@@daveslamjamA lot of us disagree, we find it amazing and exhilarating. Sure it may still be dangerous, but it's still fucking cool
I remember having a storm like this in about 2014/5 in my part of Australia. I'd just bought a new car and was terrified it was bringing hail. With no where to park undercover I dashed outside as rhe storm ramped up and drove to the nearest undercover car park. Hairiest 15 min drive. The air was electric, enough to my my arm hairs stand on end, and the wind enough to push the car around and the lightning turned night to day for about 20 mins. Never experienced another storm like it. Insane! Beautiful footage you got :)
Most terrifying thing. I’ve been through enough of them to know. When that siren goes off at night it’s enough to chill your soul.
I just went through a nasty storm 1 hour ago. There's nothing quite as spooky to me than when that tornado siren goes off and you live in a mobile home. It scares the bejeebers out of me every time.🔊 🌬🌪
Everybody safe in our community🙏Thanks
EXACTLY I was stationed in TX and it never failed that the tornado sirens would go off in the night at the same time as we were getting heavy hail. I had a baby less than 6 months old and lived in a trailer; it was so hard to decide what to do as we were out of town with not many options.
Hi Patrick.glad yr okay.ive also been through this once.its very scary. Right. But glad u all r ok.👍👋🌀🌪️🌪️⚡
I live in a neighborhood, so I don't know much about trailer homes. If you live in a community of them, is there any storm cellars to go in? Can you build one with your home?
I live 30 minutes west of Tulsa. Couldn't believe how strong it got by the time it got to Tulsa. When it hit us out here, the winds were around 70 mph, or there are so many trees that we were luckily buffered from the wind. In either case, the amount of damage in town is way more than I expected. I feel for y'all still without power from this.
Winds were up to 100MPH when it blew through midtown. We actually just got power back at my place about an hour ago finally.
@@iammandalore Oh wow!! Bless your heart! So glad you finally got power back on! It was horrible being without it! Everyone shut down. Ginormous Antique trees just pulled up like nothing. Now, that's some powerful wind!!
@@iammandalore I don't know if you've been watching the forecast, but looks like Tulsa and surrounding areas might be under a similar predicament in the next few days, specifically June 28th. Stay safe!
You probably live pretty close to my son. He has a ranch in Sand Springs. I always watch the weather because I worry about him, and I told him this storm looked pretty serious. I got him to use his shelter, and I think he was glad he did. Luckily he only lost some large tree limbs and had a little fence damage here and there. He said there was a lot of wind damage in town.
I personally really enjoy storms, they're so awesome to me, in both meanings of the word at once. One of my fondest memories is when I was at Play Practice in high school, and a MASSIVE thunderstorm came through. It was strong enough that we even got Storm Surges, a Storm Surge is like a gust but upscaled; massive amounts of wind and rain and some debris barreling through the air with enough force to rip through houses, localized in a relatively small area, like the storm is sending down a fist and punching the world beneath it. It's very distinct, because it's so loud; it literally sounds like a runaway train is crashing. I was sitting in the auditorium, a thick stone wall between me and the closest entrance, and I was just listening to this monster of a Storm. I heard one or two Storm Surges nearby, but then I heard one roaring directly towards me. The sound filled the entire auditorium, and I'm pretty sure the surge blew out some windows.
We had this happen a few years back here in Northern Michigan, it was pretty wild, and the aftermath looked exactly like that of your video.
For anyone who's been through these situations .. it's kinda trauma-inducing to relive even vicariously on video. It's important for those who haven't to know that sometimes it gets even worse and just goes on for hours & hours too. Truly the stuff of nightmares as some watch surrounding homes get battered and broken or as their own get violated by the fury of nature.
@@PatchesFlannigan You hit several nails right on the head there. Having taken the foolish choices a few times in my youth.. I always have a plan to evacuate now. It's not worth the risk or taking a chance and ending up diverting needed resources because of being stubborn, lazy or just plain stupid.
@keltic341thoughtyouknuskii4💯
@keltic341thoughtyouknuskii4 They did say they feel for people who get caught in spontaneous events. They drew a distinction between the two types of situations
It's only "traumatizing" for Millenials.
@keltic341thoughtyouknuskii4 💯
I like to sit on my back porch when it storms and just watch the chaos unfold.
The only thing that really scares me is the idea of trees falling on the house.
@@cosmickittehtrees falling on the house is a terrifying idea but find the thought of a wind so strong that it lifts the roof off your house or even lifts the entire foundation to some degree even worse. At that point, if you don‘t have a basement you‘re screwed. 😬
@@heyna1185well, those winds generally come with tornadoes, don't they? I think straight line winds can be destructive, but not destructive enough to rip the entire foundation apart, right?
I’ve been in the Nebraska December 15th derecho of 2021. One of the scariest severe thunderstorms I’ve ever witnessed. Thank goodness the trees lost all their leaves by then, otherwise the tree damage would have been much worse. I’m surprised no sirens were activated where I lived (maybe it wasn’t necessary idk).
Hey, awesome footage, but sorry that you had all of that destruction! I've experienced two derechos and plenty of windstorms, and the amount of damage that those powerful straight-line winds can do is unbelievable, especially to the power transformers and trees. It looks like a war zone afterwards. Please stay safe, and thanks for the footage.
My husband and I lived through this exact scenario in Wisconsin back in May of 1998. I have never been so scared in my entire life. We had straight-line winds clocked at 118 MPH. My BIL lost his barn. I have never seen so many trees down. It was like living in a war zone. Once in a lifetime is enough for me.
This footage is absolutely insane, in such an earthy way. I love how powerful our environment is, and how truly amazing it is that our modern safety allows us this level of comfort to perceive such wonders.
As an aside, as someone who works for Ford, seeing that Maverick crushed by a tree truly broke my heart.
I got a couple of things I wanna say about this - firstly, thank you for this awesome video. Secondly, I really appreciate that you filmed this without screaming and yelling. I don't know that I'd be able to manage it, this is scary as all get-out, but it means we really get a sense of the size and scope of this storm and what it's like to be on the ground during it. And lastly, this is a really great example, at least to me, of why people do this - standing on their porch and filming a terrifying storm. We had the biggest storm I've ever seen last summer, and the loudest one I've ever been under this summer, (I'm UK so they're all small by comparison) but I stood in my porch and watched the sky, and there's really nothing like standing on the ground as a tiny little human being while the sky turns to chaos and the wind whips up around you. Fantastic video, thanks so much for sharing it with us all!
Yes, all spectrums of colors of a rainbow in streaks and bolts of lightening danced through the dark midnight to morning sky during hurricane (Alecia, 1983). Hours before the eye passed over Fry Rd in Katy, Tx, we experienced 93 mph sustained winds.
More than once throughout the years while traveling from Texas to New Mexico during the month of July -- right through tornado alley, witnessed streaks of pink and streaks orange lightning.
The colors are mesmerizing and frightening all at same time.
They are called electrical transformers failing. This is such basic knowledge. Do you people in the USA not learn this?! When they fail, they emit light in rainbow colors!
Yes! I was 6 years old and my family was living in Port Neches- Groves, TX. We were living in a house trailer and I remember that the whole thing was rocking back and forth in the winds. I thought that it was fun 😂. Thinking about it now makes me terrified.
I was on my porch on Father’s Day in Oklahoma as well. It got crazy and the funny thing about it is there wasn’t much wind on the porch but the trees and everything around me got devastated. I hope you have recovered.
I wonder if wind kinda cancels itself out, near a house or a wall?
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 I live in a heavily wooded area and I think all of the trees helped break up the straight line winds. The trees definitely payed the price for it.
I’ve never seen the trees move like that in the 22 years I’ve lived at this place. I hope I never do again.
Get inside, you're begging to be hit by lightning.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 The faster the wind, the harder for it to redirect. Extremely fast gusts will go straight ahead and be deflected by walls, and won't "curl" around into you like a light breeze might.
Once they get sufficiently fast, however, such as in a tornado, the wind gusts become so strong that they effectively create a pressure differential which would suck you towards the violent winds.
@@J_BwnThe trees saved our ass. We had lots of metal shops that got leveled around here and roof damage. Basically anything without trees around it got messed up.
I was in a loading dock for this. It was pretty awesome. No one was hurt but, the trees really suffered.
a few years back , friend and I were backpacking in the High Sierra @ 10000 ft. we got pinned down in a hail and corn snow storm, in August...accompanied with Pink lightning...by chance your red lightning caught my attention
I went through a storm like this in New Mexico. The lightning was lighting up the whole sky this blood red color. It was wild.
I sat on a mountain one night and watched a storm for an hour it was the most beautiful colors I have ever seen.
I've seen strange things. I live in Ohio. One night during a storm the entire sky started changing color - uniformly, stretched from start to end, no lightening strikes and without a primary source, no blown transformers, it went from yellow to blue to green to red, just as if a veil were being switched back and forth. The single oddest thing I've ever witnessed. Not one word was said it about the next day, not from the weather stations, not from people, not in the news or social media. It was very strange. I don't do drugs and I'm mentally stable - I know what I saw.
That stuff happens quite alot at sea during high heat times...it is to do with the way water evaporates and refreezes midair,if u then are at a time where the sun is hitting it just right,its able to change to any colour of the rainbow
I think I know what storm you mean. Might have been one that slammed into me. I'm in SW PA, near Pittsburgh, and 2 waves of storms a few months back struck me. One with some gusty winds, and the other, which blew up behind the first, packed at least 80 MPH, blew a powerline cause the ground shorted out. Cause much of the 2 storms on my phone, and I still got the footage.
Nobody questions anything anymore it's crazy...
I've always been told that the sky turning yellow or green during a storm indicates high chance of a tornado or some type of rotation developing. Seek shelter or find a ditch is what I was told. Terrifying stuff.
@@John-ct9zs Sky turning Green, that's real, had it happen here before. I can't remember exactly what causes it, but it's light reflecting and bouncing off of something in the clouds.
Ahh yes, the Tulsa Father's Day storm. That one was special, never seen so many colors of lightning at once in my life and my brother was out of power for weeks.
Way back in Oct 12, 1962, the Seattle area experienced it's only sustained, "Cat 2" windstorm, with winds sustained at 60-+ mph, and gusts well into the 80s...outlying suburbs registered 100mph gusts. I was caught in the middle of this, trying, and then giving up, to deliver my daily newspaper route!..The storm is legendary in the Pacific NW...we NEVER get these kind of super-intense storms, although we occasionally get more brief storms, that blow themselves out after a couple of hours. The 1962 storm lasted over four hours!...I am now 76yo, and oddly enough, feel privileged to have experienced such a random force of Nature. When I mention it to younger folks, they think I am exaggerating. But film exists that documents the damage. The 62 storm actually made landfall in N california, and the eye of the storm marched up the coast, doing most damage to the state of Oregon--where winds hit 130 mph!...It actually was losing some strength when it hit the Western Washington area. I will never forget that day!
This is actually super interesting & I'm glad you mentioned it! I had no idea this happened until I read your post & Googled it. It's wild because I was in Snohomish County, WA a couple of years back during Fall & got stuck there when they had an unusual sudden & massive windstorm. I think it was just a mph or two under being labeled a category 1 & I remember being caught on the road in the middle of it right when it kicked up & I couldn't believe it; had no idea it was coming. Got to the house I was staying at not long later, driving under sparking power lines, through horizontal rain & all that, then spent the whole rest of the night watching all of the transformers around town blow out & fearing the wind was about to rip the roof off of the house. Pretty uncharacteristic for the area so I was the embodiment of a raw nerve that whole night, still kind of am years later lol.
Glad you came out of the '62 storm safe & sound.(:
Me neither! I was about three months old at the time!
Richmond equivalent is probably Isabel in 2003 which was a cat1 hurricane
I grew up in Wedgwood...I was ten when this storm roared through. I was trying to fly out in the backyard. I almost succeeded ;) and yes that is how Wedgwood is spelled in the northeast Seattle 'burb Cheers from Camano Island.
I remember seeing a segment about "the Big Blow" in one of the Weather Channel's "Top 10" specials. To think it originated from a typhoon that spawned all the way in the Marshall Islands.
I used to be a lineman. Seen this stuff a lot
This is actually insane. Such a good video to show the true extent of what straight line damaging winds can do!
I have been in numerous tornadoes in the Dallas Texas area over the years which caused me to be terrified of them. In 2015 I finally bought a tornado shelter from New Day Shelters for my wife, son and myself. The peace of mind is worth every penny of the $4000 we spent. It is built of a 3/8" thick cylinder so the wind does not have a flat surface to push against and is rated for EF5. It is designed for 3 adults but 5 can fit.
Born and raised in Tulsa. Live in Arkansas now but can't explain this sort of thing to the locals. It's just bone terrifying to witness first hand. Nothing but war or spec ops comes close to that feeling. That all-surrounding electric dread. You either run like hell or dive all the way in and flow with it. Very intense. If you didn't believe in something bigger than yourself you probably will start after this kind of experience. Thank you so much for this video. Nature needs to be seen, felt, and respected.
I survived a derecho outbreak in 2012. For three months, I kept my shoes and car keys on me at all times and googled the local radars obsessively. When the radars showed any strong winds, I would call up my best friend's mother and head over to her house to have someone to ride out the storm with. And also her mom had a brick house with a cellar. I live in South Western VA. That wind was something I had never experienced. It picked up and rattled my locked, heavy metal front door in it's door frame. I'll never forget it.
I Saw The Shadow Monster in 2017
Suffered a derecho back in 2019 northern Wisconsin, it happened so fast where the Tornado/Thunderstorm Warning sirens didn't even go off. Our tree in the backyard was ripped from the ground entirely. Scary thing was I was just outside a few minutes ago, it was cloudy but there was no sign that it was going to storm anytime soon. It was just downpour rain suddenly and straight winds.
Yeah I live in Iowa and experienced a derecho in 2020. I had never experienced such a storm. Trees uprooted everywhere, no power for 8 days. We had 140 mph winds. Just awful.
I’ve been through 2 derechos in 2020 and 2021, the last one snapped our tree in half 🤣
Awesome footage. I was on a plane and we flew right past this storm. My first time seeing red lightning, I even got a video of it!
I have now. That was definitely 100+ winds, no doubt. Thanks for sharing!
That’s definitely The Upside Down
I didn't know planet Earth did a collab with Netflix.
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I was thinking that to lmao😂 but i think it's called a red sprite storm
Nah, just another beautiful Oklahoma summer evening.
Queue the theme song!
Yep, it's Australia alright
Impressive storm. We get bad windstorms once or twice a year when the seasons are going into winter or out of winter and lasts about a day or two. It's probably my favorite thing to watch at night and listen to the howling wind.
We had a Major heavy Ice storm hit my house many years ago. The weird part was not the heavy damaging ice but after the storm ended it started too get really really Foggy at some point. Because of the heavy ice When the transformers from all around my neighborhood and distant one's started to let go it turned the Fog all different colors. The fog Was very very thick also taking 50 75 yds visibilty. Me and my parents stood on our porch hearing the pop and hum and watching Green white Blue orange Red purple Colors. Was like being inside a colored Marsh mellow . It was the coolest thing I had ever seen
The red lightning was amazing! I've watched a video by Pecos Hank about red sprites--had never heard of them before. I do enjoy watching videos of thunderstorms, because here in coastal Northern California our storms are usually missing the thunder and lightning. Sometimes we get crazy heavy rain and big winds, but almost never the extra elements. I still remember the few vivid lightning storms we've had in my lifetime--one in the late 90s where my friends and I stood for a couple of hours in the Oakland hills watching with awe the show of lightning over San Francisco, and another time in Mendocino--on July 4th, I recall--where my husband and I sat at a darkened window for hours watching the lightning flashes out at sea. A couple of years ago we had a gorgeous dry lightning storm which sadly caused some devastating forest fires.
But it wasn't always such a rare occurrence. When I was a child, growing up in Berkeley, thunder and lightning were frequent. My Dad used to joke that thunder was just God moving furniture around up in heaven. We still get as much (sometimes more) rain as we did then--drought periods notwithstanding. But the thunder and lightning are mostly gone. I miss them.
The biggest storm I've ever experienced in northern California was in January of 2002. It was the remnant of a huge Pacific hurricane, or typhoon, which managed to make it all the way up the coast to us--a rare occurrence indeed. THAT was a storm! We actually had a lot of thunder and lightning, and the rain and wind were almost midwestern-tier, with gusts up to 75-80 mph. We had a huge tree by our house, a 100 year old black walnut, and we were really afraid it would come down on us. Thankfully it did not. But I"ll never forget the incredible noise of the wind and the thrashing tree, the heavy sheets of rain and hail smashing against our windows. Our neighbor kept his collection of old cars in the lot next door, and several had big, heavy old carports over them--semi-permanent structures made of metal, anchored with huge concrete blocks. Two of them actually went aloft and crashed into our fence, knocking it over. That, and all the toppled trees around town, made that storm the most impressive and memorable of my lifetime.
We had a storm like that in Sioux City in 2001. Blew a tree down in my neighbor's yard and took a tree down at a house we were renting out. There was a lot of damage, just like you showed. One wind measurement was 104 mph!!
ALL LIES! We never had bad weather until 2005.
@rodmunch69 We also had a tornado touch down by the bypass in 1998, and another one touch down in Stone Park back in the 2010s. But yet we're supposedly immune from bad weather 🤣🤣
Looked like the scenes from War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise edition) with all the flashing lights. Very cool!
Had something similar a couple of weeks ago. It woke me up about 2AM and I went to our living room and listened as the roof on the house was being racked and twisted by the wind...actually, after looking at the date on this video, it could have been the same storm. We're in SW MO.
OMG I SAW RED LIGHTNING BACK IN 2023 AND I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT WAS!!!
Wow, helluva storm. Sorry for the destruction, never saw utility poles like that. Scary footage but fascinating to watch. We had straight-line winds during a storm a couple of years ago, and they are frightening to watch. Great footage.
I remember being in Arkansas for vacation and it was around 105 degrees Fahrenheit that day. It came close to night and I watched from the top of my hotel as the green sky came in and the wind was howling at least 80mph. The tornado was 5 miles away but I saw a massive industrial transformer blow and a super bolt which is very rare hit a tree and it blew up everywhere. It was terrifying.
The people who lived on that part of Arkansas acted like it was normal which I sort of guessed it was.
Can't say I've witnessed a storm like that, but up here in Canada, we sometimes have winter storms with heavy snowfall, lightning and thunder. A couple times the electrical was frozen, and with the weight of the ice and added wind, the wires snap under pressure. It's happened enough times that they started moving the electrical underground.
That actually happened here in Tulsa (same place that this video was shot in) back in 2007. We had a MASSIVE ice storm that year that had us without power for more than a week. The derecho in this video is actually the first time I had seen such catastrophic damage and prolonged power outages since that 2007 ice storm.
There was a tornado hit Edmonton in the late 80s/early 90s that upended several MASSIVE oil silos, picked them up and dumped them upside down on the other side of a 10 lane highway. (my dad said it was 12 lanes, but then he took us up there to see it and it wasn't that big) My dad was supposed to be there that week (we lived in Calgary, but he was often in Edmonton bc his company had offices there.) but my little brother got really sick so he stayed home to help mum. Then that happened, and shocked us all, bc it's not common. Or wasn't at that time. It is a lot more now, I've heard. (I live in Europe now)
Never ceases to amaze me how a part of the country they can see tornadoes so often, still refuses to bury their power lines.
Native Oklahoman here, I’ve been through many storms like this. Each brings a level of damage and worry unique to each storm. Great video of the storm.
I'm from Oklahoma also, agreed.👍
@@PatchesFlannigan you said it perfectly and nailed a huge problem in medical and corporate America, your last line: “it’s plain greed and lack of foresight”