This is exactly what I heard one stormy night at around 1AM. I was laying in my bed opposite direction from my window and all the sudden I saw a huge bright flash that lit the entire room. I was like "oh no this is going to be very bad!" and then all the sudden, BOOM!! Scared the living shit out of me! Loudest thunder I ever heard! I'll never forget that night.
Had one of those a few years back aswell. Description sounds the same.. I laid in bed, eyes closed, bright flash which i saw through my closed eye lids and suddenly this heavy thunderclap, I literally stood in bed
I heard like 7 of these one night when I was trying to sleep and it literally was so loud that it shook the entire house It sounded like an atomic bomb just landed on my house
@@wykazze Positive lightning typically carries a lot more amperage than negatively charged bolts. Positive lightning originates from a higher altitude so it will need more amperage and voltage to reach the ground.
Three times in my 50 plus years life I have experienced this... First was was like the above. Second was at a friend's place and a storm came over. I mentioned to my friend of a lightning to my previous encounter and within a minute later this same lightning struck very close by the roar happened and it not only scared the nightlights from my two friends but it must have struck the phone lines because all the landline phones in the street were ringing... This was the 1990s The third as it even scared me in my mid thirties was the same thing happened and a tenth of a second later the roar hit. It felt like a cannon blast but at very close range. My windows were shaking from the thunder. That was one hell of a close range. I honestly believe the three were "smooth channel lightning" strikes and I believe is yours too.
@@storm12weather Well as it's been a while since I left a message of that being the most epic sound, In my home town there was a positive strike on 29th June 2019, The sound travelled nearly a quarter of the way across scotland as it was very powerful boom just like this video.
@@storm12weather Yeah, Had all the characteristics of a sonic boom, Was extremely loud strike. The sound travelled nearly a quarter of the way across Scotland up the east coast.
Awesome video, that’s one heck of a static discharge and sonic boom. Nothing can match the raw power of a positive lightning strike. I never get tired of watching your video.
A positive lightning strike like this woke me up from dead sleep when I was a kid. At that age, I was terrified of thunder, so the explosion caused me PTSD. The next night, I suffered a terrible nightmare about it, and I woke up shaking violently. I was simultaneously frozen in place and I couldn’t stop shaking for a few seconds after I woke up. My baby sister was sleeping in my bedroom with me, so I crawled into bed with her, and then I calmed down enough to go back to sleep. Now I’m not as scared of thunder as I used to be, but to this day, I never want to hear a sound like that again.
I've heard sonic booms generated by an F-18 at an air show. About the same decibel level. Instead of a physical object at high speed, lightning creates an over pressure from the massive amount of heat in the plasma channel. But the effect is the same.
It sound like a supersonic wave or a sonic boom which CAN travel at speeds well in excess of 700 mph thus breaking the sound barrier and causing that "bomb like" sound due to the air ionizing and ripping apart at more than twice the speed of sound. And more often then not the positive lightnings voltage many times can be felt long before the sound, usually mere miliseconds before the shockwave hits your eardrums as well as your skeletal system causing you to feel the lightning. Its a very visceral feeling if i do say so myself
THIS IS IT! I woke up during the night from what I thought sounded like an explosion going off, it was a night filled with thunder and lightning but I couldn't find any lightning that sounded like it until this video popped up
It certainly could have been positive lightning! Much rarer, but when it happens it sounds so much different than typical negative lightning. Glad my video was able to help!
When I moved into a new house with my parents (unemployed) my parents heard something that lines up pretty well with this based on their description. It didn't even wake me up, probably because I have a basement bedroom. Also it wasn't immediately after moving in, just with a few months
I'm sure you also noticed the strange sound of the thunder. The thunder crack from positive lightning sounds totally different from normal, negative lightning.
+Brett Castro 117 That's because a positive strike will travel all the way from the top of the storm (5 to 10 miles high) to the ground, so the sound waves caused by the air explosion are spread over a much larger distance when compared with negative strikes. Not counting the sound waves hitting different objects on the ground or hills/mountains and then returning to the observer (much less audible though). The "popping noises" could be caused the the various branching of the strike.
+Marcus Tornea The pop I'm referring to isn't actually after the loud noise. It's almost instantly after the bright flash. You have to turn the sound up to hear it as its not very loud, and it's definitely not thunder. It had something to do with the massive electrical field around the strike. Positive strikes generate up to 1 billion volts and up to 300 Thousand Amperes. That's 10 times that of a usual lighting strike. It has an incredible effect on the surrounding atmosphere. Even at 1 mile, my brother could feel the static discharge in the house as well as hear the effect on the TV in the living room.
This is probably the best thunder I've heard. Wish i could have heard it in person. Last year in Louisiana I was enjoying a massive storm and watched a Superbolt streak diagonally in front of the house. The sound that followed was Insane, it was as if the atmosphere ripped apart, tearing the air from one side of the sky to the other. Followed by a boom that sounded a lot like this. It was like getting punched in the chest, i could feel the ground shaking from its power. I always hope to see another positive bolt that strong and get it on video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. And yes, it was very similar to your description to actually experience this. I could feel the pressure wave in my chest. My younger brother was in the house listing to music with headphones. He knew when the lightning strike occurred, even before the thunder because the enormous static discharge actually caused a buzzing noise in the headphones he was wearing, and the actual strike was over half a mile away.
We've been having an unusual amount of positive lightning strikes this year where I live. It's hard to explain why a storm feels or sounds different when you're trying to explain something like this to people who have never actually experienced strong thunderstorms before. Or, never got too close to a strike.
Thank you for the comment, but this strike was slightly less than 1 mile. I'm thinking you may have said that because you couldn't see the bolt. It was visible, but out of the frame to the right. You can do a simple calculation to measure distance from lightning. Its called the 5 second rule. Sound takes just under 5 seconds to travel a mile. The time between the flash and the thunder in this video is a little over 4 seconds. Therefore the strike was slightly less than 1 mile away. That's quite far though and a normal lightning strike would be nowhere near as loud from that far away. That shows you just how powerful positive lightning strikes are.
Delirium Yeah, i suppose it's closer to 5 seconds than 4. But again, it's still less than a mile. UA-cam is a bit strange. If i pause and play the video in small increments to get the best idea of the exact time, sometimes the thunder hits at 12 seconds, and sometimes at 13 seconds. Pausing and playing very quickly must mess with the videos timer.
@@Tstorms The bolt consistented of only one, incredibly bright return stroke. It was right on the edge of my vision to the right, so I can't say if it was a smoother channel or had a lot of branching. It happened too fast.
I will buy that one. So many other videos claim + bolts, but if you can't see the smooth non pulsing channel, the thunder is a dead give away, does not rumble
Had a winter thunderstorm a couple years back during the night and was woken up by what sounded like a bomb going off. I’m pretty certain it was positive lightning just from the sound. Terrifying
There was only one time in my life where I sat thru an intense storm that only had positive lightening. Back to back lighting exactly like this one. It was the MOST frightening event I ever witnessed in my life. It felt like bombs surrounding my entire city. It was once in a life time and I never saw it happen again. And can’t find any video on UA-cam. It was such a freakish storm.
Just had a couple positive strikes in the area last evening. The first one, which arced less than a mile overhead while we were taking a walk, sent us scrambling indoors. The closest negative strike up to that point was 10-12 miles away. This was followed by to or three others of note, the last of which was an incredibly bright flash followed about 5 seconds later by a loud boom which visibly shook our glass patio door! We tend to get these slow rolling storms in late summer that are ripe for positive lightning where we live. Awesome power but unnerving as well.
So in Romania the other town Beregsau Mare which is close to Sacalaz, it happened at night, a house got struck by lightning it was so powerful. I still remember that it happened last year!
For normal positive bolts, it seems the thunder is like a few bombs going off, then it rapidly stops. This is definitely a positive superbolt. Listen to how long that thunder roars on for.
Indeed, the thunder actually lasted past the end of this video. Well over 30 seconds. This bolt undoubtedly originated from the anvil top of the storm and had a length of over 5 miles.
@@storm12weather there must've been a crazy amount of voltage. These types of bolts are definitely interesting. About 15 years ago, I sat on the porch with a crappy micro tape recorder and managed to capture the audio of one. The flash looked just like the one in this video, and the sudden, explosive thunder made my 13 year old ass freeze in fear. It was intense. It almost sounded like a giant piece of sheet metal falling. The audio sounded kinda crappy though, and I have since lost the tape.
This is what I heard three months ago. It was very scarry because it happened at night, so I was asleep when I heard this sudden boom. At first I thought that the lightning had stroke our house, but then I realised that it was just a positive strike. It was pretty scarry though.
@Johnny64ism I used to think that was an emp effect on the powerlines, but now I think it's the emp effect on the phone itself. Positive strikes are significantly higher voltage than normal lightning and can effect electronics miles away. There are other video examples of static in the camera audio during positive strikes. Since it occurs simultaneously with the lightning, it cannot be sound directly from the strike, which takes about 5 seconds to arrive.
GOOD ONE! That classic percussive POP of the positive strike with the blubbery retort. Had one two nights ago about 1/4 away. I could feel the shock wave enter my body from left shoulder down (was was reclined). great crop pf goose bumps too!
I have only ever experience one in my life probably and I was scared like crazy, it wasn’t until recently I found out what positive strikes are and that’s what I heard so many years ago
These somewhat rare events occur maybe once a year in my area. Typically completely unexpected as the surrounding lightning is only a fraction of what a positive strike can produce. When I was a child riding in my dads truck, we were hit by lightning, and we heard no thunder from it. Just a quick pop and bright flash. Sounded more like a rock hitting the truck, than lightning. Luckily all it did was burn the bed of the truck where the ladder rack installation points were and stalled the truck. We could feel the static charge 5 seconds prior and after. The rest of the truck was good to go and it started right back up. Getting hit by a positive strike though, would probably blow up a vehicle. Luckily these are reserved typically for bigger storms, and we don't see very many of these positive hits. If we did, thunderstorms would be much louder than they are today, and would cause many more incidents of structural fires after every storm. Imagine having a thunderstorm from Jupiter. The planet endures strikes so long, that it can wrap around the earth. 100x the electrical discharge as earth based lightning. Those can stay there.
We don't get storms very often in Phoenix Arizona, but when we do it pours, and at least 1 or 2 strikes are positive. Had one strike less than a quarter mile away and the thunder almost broke my windows
Lol well you seem to shoot some very good footage. And thank you, hope that you also enjoy the weather videos I have, there's been a lot of different weather events over the last 15 months!
Oh wow, I think I got woken up by one of these once! Must’ve been right overhead cause there was one big FLASH followed by an instant booming that rattled my windows! Had no idea there were different kinds of lightning :0
@c-bass710 If it sounded like a bomb, it was likely positive lightning. And yes, while most cloud to ground strikes are negative, positive strikes can occur! A typical negative strike moves from the negatively charged storm base to the positively charged ground. However, the anvil top of the storm also has a charge, typically positive. Occasionally a strike can connect the positive anvil top to a negative charge on the ground. Because positive lightning originates from the top of the storm (over 35,000 feet up) it's path to the ground is much longer. That means the voltage has to be much higher to overcome the increased resistance along a longer path. That's why positive bolts carry significantly higher voltage, higher energy, and produce louder and longer lasting thunder.
Actually your partially right, a sonic boom is not two individual booms after each other, its actually a combination of two waves one after another so close together the human ear cant hear both at once so it just sounds like one super loud boom
i was on our loading dock when lighting struck a big poplar tree probably a hundred maybe a little more or less when i looked straight out All i saw was sparkes around the light post near it I've also have had it hit close enough to shake the house 😮
But what part of the lightning bolt actually causes those "bomb-like" pops thoughout the duration of the thunder? Is it the jagged points of the bolts facing the observer? Such a mystery and fascinating!!
According to Google: A typical lightning strike can produce thunder at 120db of sound when a lightning strikes nearby. I can only imagine how loud the thunder would be on this video if you were only like 75 or less meters away from this super bolt, it would be interesting how many decibels this would be?? I wonder how many decibels it would be if you were 75 meters or less away from the bolt? This was a cool video!
Well technically the "loudest possible sound" is 194 dB, at least on Earth. Sound is the result of a certain pressure exerted through the atm. Its a mechanical wave that travels through the air. But once the pressure exerted exceeds atm pressure at sea level, you get a vacuum along the wave interface. If you go beyond that the "sound" wave exceeds atm pressure and you get an overpressure or "Shockwave". Very close to a lightning strike you can get a shockwave, so technically it has maxed out the decibel level for sound at 1 atm. Hope that helps!
Wow this powerful blast is amazing are you sure that it was only a loud CG? I think this one was a superbolt An anvil to ground lightning bolt They have more power than a normal positive CG Superbolts are pisitive lightning bolts but more powerful. Like this one
@@storm12weather hi there i rply with my pc account. i was watching the video with my music tower. now i noticed that the thunder sounds like a jet breaking the sonic barrier
Most structures that are destroyed by lightning end up burning down when the strike causes a fire. If a positive bolt hit a structure directly without hitting a lightning rod, I'm not sure how much damage it would do. I doubt it would blow up the house, but I could see it making a nice hole through the roof, and of course you again have a fire risk.
The popping right at the time of the flash must be an effect on the powerlines very close to me because it's almost instantaneous. The sonic boom and thunder take almost 5 seconds to arrive and are Much louder.
Technically, since it's the lightning that creates sound, I'd argue you could say a lightning strike is loud. For example, if I say an explosion was loud, I'm of course referring to the sound it created. Semantics, I guess. 😆
Of course I am. As a studying meteorologist and weather enthusiast, I have a great amount of respect for lightning and know what it's capable of. But I'm fascinated by it as well and am willing to take the risk to document it's raw power.
I loved your laugh when it happen. In one of your earlier comments did you say you had your younger brother out also? I was told the strongest lightning was red.
Thanks lol. My brother came outside after the strike because it startled him, being so loud. And lightning itself is bright white. Different atmospheric conditions around the strike may cause it to appear different colors though. Purple, blue, white, depending on how much rain and hail are between the strike and the viewer.
How are they able to tell how much voltage is in a lightning strike? Example, a positive lightning strike can have a billion volts. Could they just be guessing?
We know the resistance of air to the movement of electricity. A positive bolt comes from the storm anvil over 5 miles high. To bridge the gap the charge buildup has to be enormous. In fact, air is actually a better insulator than rubber. That's why the rubber tiers on your car or the soles of your shoes stopping current from a lightning strike is a myth. A car offers protection because of the metal frame channeling the current around you, not the tires stopping it. And rubber sneakers offer absolutely no protection. Anyway the resistance medium or resistance of the atmosphere can be measured and if a strike occurs we know how much voltage was required to overcome it. In fact, if air didn't resist the flow of electricity, electrons would flow freely and charge wouldn't build up for a strike. A neat little example of this is a static shock. Ever notice that they happen to you more on cold and dry days, especially during the winter? That's because hot and humid air has a lower resistance to electricity and there is not enough build up. When it's cold and dry, build up occurs to the point of a shock.
I hv experienced positive strikes in my city about 4-5 times, within a span of just 6 years, starting from 2k17, and each time, it sounded like a Diwali Sutli Atom Bomb being burst on a Microphone, scaring the sh!t out of me, due to my phobia over bomb like explosive sounds! Spitting facts that they suck 🤢🤮
Do you really dum bum 800g is loud as this? I never heard close super bolts and never heard firecrackers above 5g so I don’t know. Everything is possible?
Oh wow, I think I got woken up by one of these once! Must’ve been right overhead cause there was one big FLASH followed by an instant booming that rattled my windows! Had no idea there were different kinds of lightning :0
This is exactly what I heard one stormy night at around 1AM. I was laying in my bed opposite direction from my window and all the sudden I saw a huge bright flash that lit the entire room. I was like "oh no this is going to be very bad!" and then all the sudden, BOOM!! Scared the living shit out of me! Loudest thunder I ever heard! I'll never forget that night.
I'ts very likely that was a positive bolt!
I have heard a lightning bolt that broke the sound barrier and flashed in the same spot 18 times
Sounds scary!
Had one of those a few years back aswell. Description sounds the same.. I laid in bed, eyes closed, bright flash which i saw through my closed eye lids and suddenly this heavy thunderclap, I literally stood in bed
I heard like 7 of these one night when I was trying to sleep and it literally was so loud that it shook the entire house
It sounded like an atomic bomb just landed on my house
Dont you ever delete this video. This is a masterpiece!
Thanks man! I appreciate that!
agree!
@@tacotac10 about what??
@@tacotac10 What part exactly do you agree with?
@@storm12weather GEIL
The difference in loudness from a positive strike is extraordinary. Makes regular lightning sound pathetic.
Nice comment❤❤❤
Not really. Sometimes positive lightnings don't have high amperage and then it's hard to judge if it was positive or negative ;)
@@wykazze Positive lightning typically carries a lot more amperage than negatively charged bolts. Positive lightning originates from a higher altitude so it will need more amperage and voltage to reach the ground.
It makes negative ones sound better for me tho 😅😅. Cuz I hate their loud bomb like sound! I hv phobia over sonic boom noises
Three times in my 50 plus years life I have experienced this...
First was was like the above.
Second was at a friend's place and a storm came over. I mentioned to my friend of a lightning to my previous encounter and within a minute later this same lightning struck very close by the roar happened and it not only scared the nightlights from my two friends but it must have struck the phone lines because all the landline phones in the street were ringing... This was the 1990s
The third as it even scared me in my mid thirties was the same thing happened and a tenth of a second later the roar hit. It felt like a cannon blast but at very close range. My windows were shaking from the thunder. That was one hell of a close range.
I honestly believe the three were "smooth channel lightning" strikes and I believe is yours too.
That has to be the most epic sound ever of lightning.
craig anderson It was pretty crazy. Positive lightning sounds more like a bomb as this video shows.
@@storm12weather Well as it's been a while since I left a message of that being the most epic sound, In my home town there was a positive strike on 29th June 2019, The sound travelled nearly a quarter of the way across scotland as it was very powerful boom just like this video.
@@Brustkle Epic! Was it loud where you were?
@@storm12weather Yeah, Had all the characteristics of a sonic boom, Was extremely loud strike. The sound travelled nearly a quarter of the way across Scotland up the east coast.
@@Brustkle Very cool.
This is the kind of thunder that will shake your house. The shockwave from that boom is unpleasant. ⚡
Awesome video, that’s one heck of a static discharge and sonic boom. Nothing can match the raw power of a positive lightning strike. I never get tired of watching your video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was pretty freaking awesome!
A positive lightning strike like this woke me up from dead sleep when I was a kid. At that age, I was terrified of thunder, so the explosion caused me PTSD. The next night, I suffered a terrible nightmare about it, and I woke up shaking violently. I was simultaneously frozen in place and I couldn’t stop shaking for a few seconds after I woke up. My baby sister was sleeping in my bedroom with me, so I crawled into bed with her, and then I calmed down enough to go back to sleep.
Now I’m not as scared of thunder as I used to be, but to this day, I never want to hear a sound like that again.
Yes. It's like an H Bomb!
That's like an F-14 flying over your house low altitude
I've heard sonic booms generated by an F-18 at an air show. About the same decibel level. Instead of a physical object at high speed, lightning creates an over pressure from the massive amount of heat in the plasma channel. But the effect is the same.
It sound like a supersonic wave or a sonic boom which CAN travel at speeds well in excess of 700 mph thus breaking the sound barrier and causing that "bomb like" sound due to the air ionizing and ripping apart at more than twice the speed of sound. And more often then not the positive lightnings voltage many times can be felt long before the sound, usually mere miliseconds before the shockwave hits your eardrums as well as your skeletal system causing you to feel the lightning. Its a very visceral feeling if i do say so myself
THIS IS IT! I woke up during the night from what I thought sounded like an explosion going off, it was a night filled with thunder and lightning but I couldn't find any lightning that sounded like it until this video popped up
It certainly could have been positive lightning! Much rarer, but when it happens it sounds so much different than typical negative lightning. Glad my video was able to help!
When I moved into a new house with my parents (unemployed) my parents heard something that lines up pretty well with this based on their description.
It didn't even wake me up, probably because I have a basement bedroom.
Also it wasn't immediately after moving in, just with a few months
I'm sure you also noticed the strange sound of the thunder. The thunder crack from positive lightning sounds totally different from normal, negative lightning.
yes it causes loud popping noises as well as deep booming thunder that goes on much longer than thunder from a negative
+Brett Castro 117 That's because a positive strike will travel all the way from the top of the storm (5 to 10 miles high) to the ground, so the sound waves caused by the air explosion are spread over a much larger distance when compared with negative strikes. Not counting the sound waves hitting different objects on the ground or hills/mountains and then returning to the observer (much less audible though).
The "popping noises" could be caused the the various branching of the strike.
+andreiwindstorm I believe that the popping noise originated from the first and the loudest, which bounced back from houses, buildings, and hills.
+Marcus Tornea The pop I'm referring to isn't actually after the loud noise. It's almost instantly after the bright flash. You have to turn the sound up to hear it as its not very loud, and it's definitely not thunder. It had something to do with the massive electrical field around the strike. Positive strikes generate up to 1 billion volts and up to 300 Thousand Amperes. That's 10 times that of a usual lighting strike. It has an incredible effect on the surrounding atmosphere. Even at 1 mile, my brother could feel the static discharge in the house as well as hear the effect on the TV in the living room.
This is probably the best thunder I've heard. Wish i could have heard it in person. Last year in Louisiana I was enjoying a massive storm and watched a Superbolt streak diagonally in front of the house. The sound that followed was Insane, it was as if the atmosphere ripped apart, tearing the air from one side of the sky to the other. Followed by a boom that sounded a lot like this. It was like getting punched in the chest, i could feel the ground shaking from its power. I always hope to see another positive bolt that strong and get it on video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. And yes, it was very similar to your description to actually experience this. I could feel the pressure wave in my chest. My younger brother was in the house listing to music with headphones. He knew when the lightning strike occurred, even before the thunder because the enormous static discharge actually caused a buzzing noise in the headphones he was wearing, and the actual strike was over half a mile away.
We've been having an unusual amount of positive lightning strikes this year where I live. It's hard to explain why a storm feels or sounds different when you're trying to explain something like this to people who have never actually experienced strong thunderstorms before. Or, never got too close to a strike.
Thank you for the comment, but this strike was slightly less than 1 mile. I'm thinking you may have said that because you couldn't see the bolt. It was visible, but out of the frame to the right. You can do a simple calculation to measure distance from lightning. Its called the 5 second rule. Sound takes just under 5 seconds to travel a mile. The time between the flash and the thunder in this video is a little over 4 seconds. Therefore the strike was slightly less than 1 mile away. That's quite far though and a normal lightning strike would be nowhere near as loud from that far away. That shows you just how powerful positive lightning strikes are.
Brett Castro 117 I count 5 seconds 0:08 to 0:13.
Delirium Yeah, i suppose it's closer to 5 seconds than 4. But again, it's still less than a mile. UA-cam is a bit strange. If i pause and play the video in small increments to get the best idea of the exact time, sometimes the thunder hits at 12 seconds, and sometimes at 13 seconds. Pausing and playing very quickly must mess with the videos timer.
I never knew that
What did the bolt look like out of frame? I imagine from the sound alone that it was branchless and smooth
@@Tstorms The bolt consistented of only one, incredibly bright return stroke. It was right on the edge of my vision to the right, so I can't say if it was a smoother channel or had a lot of branching. It happened too fast.
This video is... WONDERFUL
Ignacio Buiatti Thankyou!
I will buy that one. So many other videos claim + bolts, but if you can't see the smooth non pulsing channel, the thunder is a dead give away, does not rumble
Had a winter thunderstorm a couple years back during the night and was woken up by what sounded like a bomb going off. I’m pretty certain it was positive lightning just from the sound. Terrifying
There was only one time in my life where I sat thru an intense storm that only had positive lightening. Back to back lighting exactly like this one. It was the MOST frightening event I ever witnessed in my life. It felt like bombs surrounding my entire city. It was once in a life time and I never saw it happen again. And can’t find any video on UA-cam. It was such a freakish storm.
Now THAT'S what lightning should sound like.
Positive lightning is also very smooth and you could miss it if you aren’t paying attention
Just had a couple positive strikes in the area last evening. The first one, which arced less than a mile overhead while we were taking a walk, sent us scrambling indoors. The closest negative strike up to that point was 10-12 miles away. This was followed by to or three others of note, the last of which was an incredibly bright flash followed about 5 seconds later by a loud boom which visibly shook our glass patio door!
We tend to get these slow rolling storms in late summer that are ripe for positive lightning where we live. Awesome power but unnerving as well.
vvebvvaster That sounds epic! I would have been enjoying every minute. Lol
So in Romania the other town Beregsau Mare which is close to Sacalaz, it happened at night, a house got struck by lightning it was so powerful. I still remember that it happened last year!
For normal positive bolts, it seems the thunder is like a few bombs going off, then it rapidly stops. This is definitely a positive superbolt. Listen to how long that thunder roars on for.
Indeed, the thunder actually lasted past the end of this video. Well over 30 seconds. This bolt undoubtedly originated from the anvil top of the storm and had a length of over 5 miles.
@@storm12weather there must've been a crazy amount of voltage. These types of bolts are definitely interesting. About 15 years ago, I sat on the porch with a crappy micro tape recorder and managed to capture the audio of one. The flash looked just like the one in this video, and the sudden, explosive thunder made my 13 year old ass freeze in fear. It was intense. It almost sounded like a giant piece of sheet metal falling. The audio sounded kinda crappy though, and I have since lost the tape.
I can only Imagine the compression felt from this kind of like an explosion shockwave
This is what I heard three months ago. It was very scarry because it happened at night, so I was asleep when I heard this sudden boom.
At first I thought that the lightning had stroke our house, but then I realised that it was just a positive strike.
It was pretty scarry though.
massive blast. sweet capture
Thankyou. Certainly caught me off guard!
did anyone here the little Pop right as the Lightning Stuck Just b4 the Clap of Thunder
@Johnny64ism I used to think that was an emp effect on the powerlines, but now I think it's the emp effect on the phone itself. Positive strikes are significantly higher voltage than normal lightning and can effect electronics miles away. There are other video examples of static in the camera audio during positive strikes. Since it occurs simultaneously with the lightning, it cannot be sound directly from the strike, which takes about 5 seconds to arrive.
GOOD ONE! That classic percussive POP of the positive strike with the blubbery retort. Had one two nights ago about 1/4 away. I could feel the shock wave enter my body from left shoulder down (was was reclined). great crop pf goose bumps too!
I have only ever experience one in my life probably and I was scared like crazy, it wasn’t until recently I found out what positive strikes are and that’s what I heard so many years ago
These somewhat rare events occur maybe once a year in my area. Typically completely unexpected as the surrounding lightning is only a fraction of what a positive strike can produce. When I was a child riding in my dads truck, we were hit by lightning, and we heard no thunder from it. Just a quick pop and bright flash. Sounded more like a rock hitting the truck, than lightning. Luckily all it did was burn the bed of the truck where the ladder rack installation points were and stalled the truck. We could feel the static charge 5 seconds prior and after. The rest of the truck was good to go and it started right back up. Getting hit by a positive strike though, would probably blow up a vehicle. Luckily these are reserved typically for bigger storms, and we don't see very many of these positive hits. If we did, thunderstorms would be much louder than they are today, and would cause many more incidents of structural fires after every storm. Imagine having a thunderstorm from Jupiter. The planet endures strikes so long, that it can wrap around the earth. 100x the electrical discharge as earth based lightning. Those can stay there.
Holy moly that Sound like a Atombomb great Job! And greetings from germany and stay healthy :)
Yeah, it was certainly intense! And thank you for the well wishes my friend. You as well.
We don't get storms very often in Phoenix Arizona, but when we do it pours, and at least 1 or 2 strikes are positive. Had one strike less than a quarter mile away and the thunder almost broke my windows
I've heard of incidents where the overpressure from positive lightning actually did shatter windows.
We had this type of lightning in late May 1992 in Manchester! United Kingdom!
Still waiting to hear the thunder from a positive strike in real life... Can't wait for it to happen!
I hear it’s more common in the midwest. I live in S. Fl and only heard it 3 or so times.
Awesome, great positive strike!
Thanks! And this came from a storm that I thought was a dud. I was just about to pack up and go inside.
I can't imagine the shockwave.
I just experienced this exact thunder myself!!
Its really cool hearing positive lightning in person. It sounds like artillery rounds. This was by far the loudest I've heard though.
So much better then negative strikes.
I'd say so. They carry a much larger current, create much louder thunder and a rare to capture. So it's always a treat to catch one.
That was freaking awesome!!
Ethan B This one made my week! Lol. I'm glad you are enjoying my videos. I'll make sure to check out more of yours.
Lol well you seem to shoot some very good footage. And thank you, hope that you also enjoy the weather videos I have, there's been a lot of different weather events over the last 15 months!
Oh wow, I think I got woken up by one of these once! Must’ve been right overhead cause there was one big FLASH followed by an instant booming that rattled my windows! Had no idea there were different kinds of lightning :0
@c-bass710 If it sounded like a bomb, it was likely positive lightning. And yes, while most cloud to ground strikes are negative, positive strikes can occur! A typical negative strike moves from the negatively charged storm base to the positively charged ground. However, the anvil top of the storm also has a charge, typically positive. Occasionally a strike can connect the positive anvil top to a negative charge on the ground. Because positive lightning originates from the top of the storm (over 35,000 feet up) it's path to the ground is much longer. That means the voltage has to be much higher to overcome the increased resistance along a longer path. That's why positive bolts carry significantly higher voltage, higher energy, and produce louder and longer lasting thunder.
@@storm12weather neat! Thanks so much for sharing those fun facts! (: it’s always awesome to learn how Mother Nature works!
@@AtLeastA.C-plus No problem!
This type of thunder I live for
Holy cow. Nature is epic
That was freakin awesome dude!
Double boom = sonic boom! Wow
GSDubz Definitely. It was quick, but it's the loudest sound I've ever heard.
Actually your partially right, a sonic boom is not two individual booms after each other, its actually a combination of two waves one after another so close together the human ear cant hear both at once so it just sounds like one super loud boom
This one befire you hear the blast you can hear electrical sounds, like crackling effect of firework
The positive lightning sounds like a relatively large meteorite exploding in the air.
I think I’ve never seen a video whit this loud thunder rumbling. The camera can’t even produce the loud sound
i was on our loading dock when lighting struck a big poplar tree probably a hundred maybe a little more or less when i looked straight out All i saw was sparkes around the light post near it I've also have had it hit close enough to shake the house 😮
I've had a few uncomfortably close calls myself. I try my best to take precautions but when you storm chase there is definitely an inherent risk.
What a amazing Catch, cant believe this bang
Thanks! I was so lucky I decided to start recording one last time before going inside.
This is the type of thunder that broke my windows earlier this morning.
Wow. You actually lost windows to thunder? It must have been pretty close too!
But what part of the lightning bolt actually causes those "bomb-like" pops thoughout the duration of the thunder? Is it the jagged points of the bolts facing the observer? Such a mystery and fascinating!!
No. That's just the thunder breaking the sound barrier since its traveling fast due to the power of the lightning.
According to Google: A typical lightning strike can produce thunder at 120db of sound when a lightning strikes nearby. I can only imagine how loud the thunder would be on this video if you were only like 75 or less meters away from this super bolt, it would be interesting how many decibels this would be?? I wonder how many decibels it would be if you were 75 meters or less away from the bolt? This was a cool video!
Well technically the "loudest possible sound" is 194 dB, at least on Earth. Sound is the result of a certain pressure exerted through the atm. Its a mechanical wave that travels through the air. But once the pressure exerted exceeds atm pressure at sea level, you get a vacuum along the wave interface. If you go beyond that the "sound" wave exceeds atm pressure and you get an overpressure or "Shockwave". Very close to a lightning strike you can get a shockwave, so technically it has maxed out the decibel level for sound at 1 atm. Hope that helps!
@@storm12weather awesome answer. thanks!
@@PHXAZSTORM816 You're welcome!
WTF how loud and Long
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Wow this powerful blast is amazing are you sure that it was only a loud CG?
I think this one was a superbolt
An anvil to ground lightning bolt
They have more power than a normal positive CG
Superbolts are pisitive lightning bolts but more powerful. Like this one
It was a positive bolt so yes, it was likely an anvil to cloud superbolt. Usually positive strikes are anvil to ground. 100% agree.
Yeah but this one is amazing
@@dragonlord_8538 Thanks! I was so happy I caught this on video.
@@storm12weather hi there i rply with my pc account. i was watching the video with my music tower. now i noticed that the thunder sounds like a jet breaking the sonic barrier
Can positively lighting destroy a house?
Most structures that are destroyed by lightning end up burning down when the strike causes a fire. If a positive bolt hit a structure directly without hitting a lightning rod, I'm not sure how much damage it would do. I doubt it would blow up the house, but I could see it making a nice hole through the roof, and of course you again have a fire risk.
It warns you before the moon hits you destroying your little precious ear drums
Im Like Hearing this for the 200th time now
Glad you like it! I'm still happy that I caught this rare moment on video.
The popping thing is the sonic booms that only positive lightning can produce. Only 1 out of 20 bolts are positive bolts.
The popping right at the time of the flash must be an effect on the powerlines very close to me because it's almost instantaneous. The sonic boom and thunder take almost 5 seconds to arrive and are Much louder.
@@storm12weather It could have been the tail of a failed leader. You may have got rather lucky there that it didn't connect!
ba-DOOOOOOM! That'd be + !
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Lightning is not loud.
_Thunder_ is.
Technically, since it's the lightning that creates sound, I'd argue you could say a lightning strike is loud. For example, if I say an explosion was loud, I'm of course referring to the sound it created. Semantics, I guess. 😆
Amazing
nice
Not even a little scared to go outside when it is lightning?!
Of course I am. As a studying meteorologist and weather enthusiast, I have a great amount of respect for lightning and know what it's capable of. But I'm fascinated by it as well and am willing to take the risk to document it's raw power.
I loved your laugh when it happen. In one of your earlier comments did you say you had your younger brother out also? I was told the strongest lightning was red.
Thanks lol. My brother came outside after the strike because it startled him, being so loud. And lightning itself is bright white. Different atmospheric conditions around the strike may cause it to appear different colors though. Purple, blue, white, depending on how much rain and hail are between the strike and the viewer.
How are they able to tell how much voltage is in a lightning strike? Example, a positive lightning strike can have a billion volts. Could they just be guessing?
We know the resistance of air to the movement of electricity. A positive bolt comes from the storm anvil over 5 miles high. To bridge the gap the charge buildup has to be enormous. In fact, air is actually a better insulator than rubber. That's why the rubber tiers on your car or the soles of your shoes stopping current from a lightning strike is a myth. A car offers protection because of the metal frame channeling the current around you, not the tires stopping it. And rubber sneakers offer absolutely no protection. Anyway the resistance medium or resistance of the atmosphere can be measured and if a strike occurs we know how much voltage was required to overcome it. In fact, if air didn't resist the flow of electricity, electrons would flow freely and charge wouldn't build up for a strike. A neat little example of this is a static shock. Ever notice that they happen to you more on cold and dry days, especially during the winter? That's because hot and humid air has a lower resistance to electricity and there is not enough build up. When it's cold and dry, build up occurs to the point of a shock.
Good God almighty that just snuck up on you.
Textbook positive strike that!
Definitely. The moment it hit, I was like "yep, that was positive!". Lol.
I hv experienced positive strikes in my city about 4-5 times, within a span of just 6 years, starting from 2k17, and each time, it sounded like a Diwali Sutli Atom Bomb being burst on a Microphone, scaring the sh!t out of me, due to my phobia over bomb like explosive sounds! Spitting facts that they suck 🤢🤮
I heard this just today
Sounds like a sonic boom.
Wha?
dat sound :O
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wow!!!
WoW sounds like a Nuke lol
mR andross guy It was ridiculously loud!
RIP my headphones 😂
@@DawnDupponmi My bad. 😄
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Sonic boom. 😎
WOW!!!🙈🙈
sounds like dum bum 800g
Do you really dum bum 800g is loud as this? I never heard close super bolts and never heard firecrackers above 5g so I don’t know. Everything is possible?
What is this all about? I see nothing terrifying.
It's exactly as the title suggests. A very loud positive strike. Where did I describe it as terrifying?
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Oh wow, I think I got woken up by one of these once! Must’ve been right overhead cause there was one big FLASH followed by an instant booming that rattled my windows! Had no idea there were different kinds of lightning :0