Powerful Squall Line - Joplin, MO

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  • Took this footage in Joplin, MO as a powerful and destructive squall line swept through town. Winds reached speeds of 80mph accompanied by large hail in spots. Hail reached nickel size at my location. May 8, 2009 7am

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  • @ronaldshank7589
    @ronaldshank7589 3 роки тому +10

    Easily one of the best videos of a fast-moving Squall Line that I've ever seen! Great video!

    • @sammylacks4937
      @sammylacks4937 Рік тому +2

      This is a weather event I have seen several times in NC. Called a QLCS event its a line of violent wind and thunderstorms that form ahead of a cold front. The last time was about 10 years ago and was forecasted a day at least before. I wasn't prepared for the it isn't here but now it is suddenness driving from work and suddenly hit by near hurricane force winds. Fortunately it s over almost as sudden. Unfortunately it's said NC and SC experience 90% of the tornadoes we have from QLCS squalls. They can spin up with little warning but most are weak and short lived.

  • @calebostrowski-braman
    @calebostrowski-braman Рік тому +6

    The storm before the tornado. Two years later, the tornado. Also this should've been like this: 80 mph winds and 5 inches of rain.

  • @heatherstub
    @heatherstub 3 роки тому +14

    This actually reminded me of the intense squall line that formed on May 22, 2011 when that tornado came through your beautiful city! Someone else has a video of that storm developing outside Joplin, and those winds picked up so fast. The rain and hale was so bad you could hardly see in front of you. Hearing other videos, (yes, I'm totally blind), reminded me of it, too. If it'd been late afternoon when this one took place, I'll bet you would have had a horrific tornado! You guys dodged a bullet that morning! The thunder and lightning from the 2011 tornado was absolutely horrific! I've been through two tornadoes, and being blind my whole life, I can actually say that I'm glad I couldn't see it. I heard them and even felt them as they nearly destroyed our house and wiped out other homes just yards away from us. The ear-popping is unmistakable. I can also feel when we're going to have one, and I've warned people in the past when we were about to have one. Forty-five minutes later on one afternoon, it came within about a 10th of a mile from our building at work, and I remember feeling the air rising for about 10 minutes as it formed. Then, one of my co-workers's husband, a courier with Fedex, came in with his uniform covered in blood and glass from his van, and that made it even more horrifying. That was a third tornado, but it didn't hit us, so I don't consider myself and everyone else there with me as having been in that one. It's terrifying!

  • @ryangarrettofficial
    @ryangarrettofficial 12 років тому +21

    May 22 2011 tornado victim Will Norton posted a video about this particular storm. Said he was driving to school when it hit. Irony in it's saddest form =[

  • @kennethblack314
    @kennethblack314 6 років тому +10

    Perfect timing of the railroad engine blaring the coming of the storm.

  • @Bbendfender
    @Bbendfender 7 років тому +13

    I guess this was 2 years before the killer tornado hit Joplin. This is a very good video.

  • @siederic
    @siederic 15 років тому +7

    This is amazing! I was watching it all unfold that morning on radar, but now to see the actual storm itself is something else! Glad you were safe during that storm!

  • @marynichols438
    @marynichols438 6 років тому +25

    That is one fierce storm! Great coverage. Loved the birds chirping at the beginning of the video. I appreciate that you didn't play music or talk through the video. We got to experience all of the sounds of the storm.

  • @CyrusNixes
    @CyrusNixes 15 років тому +17

    That is incredible! The approach of the storm is awesome - I've never seen a storm move that quickly. It looks so amazingly insidious.
    I'd love to have been there.

  • @ronaldshank7589
    @ronaldshank7589 14 днів тому

    This is a true WINNER of a video clip! This shows just how fast a Severe Thunderstorm (Derecho) can move in, and cause a lot of damage. Looks like y'all made it through this bad boy alright.
    Thanks for posting this!

  • @cbizkit84s61
    @cbizkit84s61 6 років тому +6

    That's an intense storm. I am learning more about weather and always read about squall lines but have only seen pictures. This video was excellent in showing real time footage of the storm's progression

  • @Og-Judy
    @Og-Judy 3 роки тому +5

    Wouldn't be the first time a derecho run through Missouri. Then 2 years later from this....May 2011, changed everything about Joplin.🌪

  • @IDriveAFord1284
    @IDriveAFord1284 14 років тому +4

    Best video I have seen of a derecho. More people need to make videos like this!

  • @moskii-kb8un
    @moskii-kb8un 8 років тому +23

    This is the storm that Will Norton made a video about and stated that he thought he was gonna die driving thru this intense weather, & we all know what happened to him 2 yrs later on May 22...unbelievable sad story...

    • @Savaaj
      @Savaaj 7 років тому +4

      Wow.

    • @lindashapeshifter8675
      @lindashapeshifter8675 5 років тому +4

      I'm sry, but what happened?

    • @JustDante
      @JustDante 4 роки тому +4

      @@lindashapeshifter8675 So Will Norton was driving home from his graduation when he got hit by an EF-5 tornado. It was sure devastating and now it's 2020.

    • @lindashapeshifter8675
      @lindashapeshifter8675 4 роки тому +3

      Oh Geez- I'm so sry to hear that. I live in Alberta Canada, where we don't really see tornados, so I can only imagine

    • @johannesbols57
      @johannesbols57 Рік тому +1

      Maybe he should've taken cover instead of chasing storms. DARWIN AWARD!

  • @severeweather4161
    @severeweather4161 2 роки тому +2

    It being in the early morning makes it creepier. Very ominous sight in the distance. The delivery of power, with strength, with speed in an enormous, VERY dangerous storm.

  • @dmljm2
    @dmljm2 13 років тому +7

    Next to the hurricane vids, this is the best storm footage on youtube and thanks for posting my friend. This is a every afternoon thing down here in south florida in the summer lol Thanks for the share BO
    Danny

    • @1greyfivenineskeleton
      @1greyfivenineskeleton 6 років тому +1

      dan mullin hurricanes are boring to watch. Tornadoes are more exciting to me.

  • @Larsholden702
    @Larsholden702 7 років тому +20

    Did that woman just take her son/daughter for a ride straight toward all those power flashes?

  • @BRICK8492
    @BRICK8492 11 років тому +21

    Being a weather nerd, I've always wanted to see something like this in person...but then again, I also don't...

    • @TheMonie20
      @TheMonie20 2 роки тому +1

      Same!

    • @P1995.
      @P1995. Місяць тому

      It’s scary yet mesmerizing, I’ve only seen a couple storms where I live like this, but they usually happen overnight while we’re asleep

  • @MightyJimmy295
    @MightyJimmy295 2 роки тому +3

    If only the people of Joplin Missouri knew of the devastating hell that would hit them just two years later in the same month that this video was recorded.

  • @HUTINAK
    @HUTINAK 14 років тому +9

    Hear the birds going crazy before the storm

  • @UtahMike41
    @UtahMike41 13 років тому +4

    Crazy! I've been to Missouri just a few times but when I am there it seems like mother nature always puts on a real show. I have to wonder though were the lady and her child had to go that was so important they couldn't wait out the storm.

  • @Thunderstruck401
    @Thunderstruck401 14 років тому +5

    Beautiful Dericho! expressive winds, and has the characteristics of a HP supercell, i'm suprised there was't a few short lived tornadoes drop out of the cloud ceiling of the initial front base of the disorganized shelf cloud.

  • @chemicalwarfare224
    @chemicalwarfare224 12 років тому +6

    That is one awesome storm. The powerful winds must have really intensified the hail damage, too.

  • @sonconmas
    @sonconmas 12 років тому +11

    Just noticed how much the wind speed picks up after the storm front passes around 2:10!

    • @AngelWhisper_7
      @AngelWhisper_7 2 роки тому +3

      It's actually called a gust front 😉👍☺👌

  • @hasanaasim6873
    @hasanaasim6873 8 років тому +69

    i am feeling pity for the two people that went somewhere in the car.

    • @jpayne3616
      @jpayne3616 7 років тому +11

      hasan aasim same here. I really hope they made it safely out of there

    • @alexanderk.3056
      @alexanderk.3056 6 років тому +5

      Me too!

    • @Dozier39
      @Dozier39 5 років тому +10

      Only pity for the child. The adult should have known better.

    • @maragoodger905
      @maragoodger905 5 років тому +2

      That area of the US gets hit a LOT by storms, and I guess you have to keep trucking along. She probably had to go to work/take the child to daycare.

    • @dontrellsmith8632
      @dontrellsmith8632 4 роки тому +4

      I was the same way it seems like right when she pull off with her child the wind pick up

  • @KevinLuWX
    @KevinLuWX 5 років тому +1

    The winds in this video are around 30 mph. No where near 80 mph.

  • @buzz385
    @buzz385 12 років тому +3

    Just beautiful. Thank you for that wonderful video.Thunder storms rock.

  • @kevvable
    @kevvable 13 років тому +13

    do you live in Joplin? are you ok after the huge tornado of may 22th, and what with your house and your neighbours?
    greets from belgium!

  • @Oosegoose.
    @Oosegoose. 13 років тому +3

    That was so perfect, the little bird is chirping... Then u see that shit move in so quick! Did that lady actually drive into that storm w her kid!!! Wow!

    • @angelicx1610
      @angelicx1610 7 років тому +1

      The child was going to school

  • @TheInspireImagine
    @TheInspireImagine 11 років тому +4

    i saw one squall line from the plane and i though it was the most beautiful fascinating thing I had ever seen.... but of course i am aware they can be dangerous and destructive.

  • @EthanBWeather
    @EthanBWeather 6 років тому +2

    Absolutely amazing storm footage, just said that something much, much worse hit two years later.

  • @StarshotSCV
    @StarshotSCV 13 років тому +13

    To everyone angry at the car leaving: this was before the tornado, we had bad storms basically every other week and frankly this want too unusual, pretty damn windy, but nothing really dangerous. The only damage done was some tree limbs down and a TV station poll tower (I don't know the official name) and that simply landed on a parked car, so you had just as much of a chance of it landing on your house. And this was around time for school, so the dedicated students had to get there on time. :)

    • @johannesbols57
      @johannesbols57 Рік тому +1

      It was evident that the weather was risky.

  • @rand49er
    @rand49er 3 роки тому +2

    I just love a good ol' summer thunderstorm.

  • @jimmyseaver3647
    @jimmyseaver3647 4 роки тому +1

    This is surreal knowing a third of the town would be demolished barely more than 2 years later.

  • @harounankazianga2784
    @harounankazianga2784 7 років тому +2

    I feel bad for Joplin. First a squall line,then a tornado.

  • @TheSkunk1996
    @TheSkunk1996 10 років тому +4

    I wish it rain like that in Los Angeles.. Thank you for posting

    • @rob548
      @rob548 9 років тому +2

      It doesn't rain in L.A. I remember last year it didn't rain from March until Halloween where I live.

    • @saladman6434
      @saladman6434 5 років тому

      Rob McGregor That’s how Mediterranean climates are like with mild, year-long temps, dry summers and wet winters. California and the West Coast in general is no alien to this kind of weather but it is definitely not too common since this kind of weather usually happens during spring through fall and that window of time is the dry times for places with such climates.

    • @saladman6434
      @saladman6434 5 років тому

      Rob McGregor But I’d bet you were surprised this winter since it was a very wet winter and so wet in fact it left California virtually drought-free which hasn’t happened since about in years! I know thunderstorms and hailstorms are not too common in California, but California definitely sees rain.

  • @jimiguitar100
    @jimiguitar100 7 років тому +6

    Many ef5 tornadoes, but Joplin and El Reno looked different

  • @mr1spamification
    @mr1spamification 6 років тому +6

    It's beautiful, sucks that it caused damage and power outages though. I've always loved storms on a deep level.

  • @mysoundrights
    @mysoundrights 8 років тому +2

    that squall line is like "shut up! Now I 'll speak my own sermon"

  • @supertornadogun1690
    @supertornadogun1690 6 років тому +9

    If only they knew...

  • @Natester1986
    @Natester1986 15 років тому +1

    Best footage i've seen of a approaching derecho. I'm surprised your power didn't go out even though there were multiple power flashes seen.

  • @StepDownNickAnimationUTTP
    @StepDownNickAnimationUTTP 6 місяців тому +1

    GENE: Never been out there in this storm like this!!! LOUISE: A lot of lightning were in 2009 when we were alive.

  • @ninjaryder1st
    @ninjaryder1st 13 років тому +3

    who was the lady with child that drove away? what were they thinking?

  • @danielskinner7370
    @danielskinner7370 Рік тому +1

    Not gonna lie that looked like an RFD, can u tell the difference between an intense storm and an RFD without knowing or seeing a tornado in the area

  • @williamwilbur
    @williamwilbur 11 років тому +3

    Nice video, wxchaserJ! WOW! That was an awesome squall line! :D

  • @rarebasses
    @rarebasses 15 років тому +2

    This was the craziest storm I've ever been in. Almost a solid hour of non stop hellatious winds! I'm suprised we didn't get more damage than we did.

  • @tophlovr
    @tophlovr 14 років тому +2

    I remember when this happened we got dime sized hail and almost 100 mph winds we live close to main in webb city

  • @Rich_YTS
    @Rich_YTS Рік тому +2

    this feels like a supercell

  • @bdjoh011
    @bdjoh011 Рік тому +1

    I wonder how many views this video had prior to the Joplin tornado

  • @fredthompson7465
    @fredthompson7465 10 років тому +9

    Guess this neighborhood got wiped out durring the 2011 ef5 tornado.

  • @sarahwhitworth4619
    @sarahwhitworth4619 4 роки тому +1

    Love these storms but definitely do not love when people are hurt in any way. Glad you were being careful.

  • @thurston4mor
    @thurston4mor 13 років тому +1

    The sinister approach of ungodly devastation....

  • @1greyfivenineskeleton
    @1greyfivenineskeleton 6 років тому +1

    I love the sound of the birds

  • @windwhipped5
    @windwhipped5 5 років тому +2

    The Cardinal was warning everyone to get under cover.

  • @krayzkatman1990
    @krayzkatman1990 4 роки тому +1

    I'm surprised those two decided to set out when they did and I would have turned back after 30 seconds and put my car in the garage!

  • @angelicx1610
    @angelicx1610 7 років тому +1

    There's a video titled "Inland Hurricane derecho So Illinois May 8, 2009."

  • @TheDemoniusX
    @TheDemoniusX 13 років тому +2

    I love joplin. Reminds me of the past there!

  • @peterhibbert7682
    @peterhibbert7682 3 роки тому

    I was watching this when I was little just my first time i was 6 years old this film just saw came out and now to old I am 17 so I was watching this it good

  • @angelicx1610
    @angelicx1610 7 років тому +1

    This is the storm that willdabeast88883333 was talking about. He said that he nearly died in that storm.

  • @dj4310
    @dj4310 13 років тому +2

    little did they know, the place was going to be obliterated in 2 years...

  • @mirishitaunofficial
    @mirishitaunofficial 5 років тому +1

    This was an intense microburst.

  • @ayladakora
    @ayladakora 15 років тому +1

    Oh that was beautiful. That day was a bad day. First the storm.. then losing power for about 2 days.. and that was the day we also put a friends cat to sleep. I loved the storm though.

  • @bnsfmanifests
    @bnsfmanifests 12 років тому +2

    It is a good storm video. Pretty mean squall line, those straight line winds were something else.

  • @MapleSyrupBruh
    @MapleSyrupBruh 6 років тому +4

    1:22 i hear the freight train sound everyone describes!!!

    • @bassetbaby67
      @bassetbaby67 3 роки тому +1

      That was an actual train, you heard the whistle. In a tornado, you don't hear any whistle, you hear the sound a freight train makes as it roars along the tracks, and it literally sounds like it's going to come through your house.

    • @TheFlyingmowerBusRailfan
      @TheFlyingmowerBusRailfan 6 місяців тому

      Nice train horn sound

  • @Brendrumer
    @Brendrumer 15 років тому +1

    THIS WAS AMAZING! i was amzed we had no power for 6 days!

  • @interstateruler
    @interstateruler 13 років тому +4

    I felt sad that your town has been destroyed by a EF5 Tornado. I bet your place has the most violent thunderstorms

  • @mariannshaw9215
    @mariannshaw9215 10 років тому +3

    Beautiful!

  • @mirishitaunofficial
    @mirishitaunofficial 4 роки тому +1

    There were 2 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, then there was a Tornado Warning.

  • @weathermanofthenorth1547
    @weathermanofthenorth1547 Рік тому

    You can hear the power lines arching at 2:20.

  • @Beergut222
    @Beergut222 13 років тому +2

    Very cool video.

  • @Toronto324
    @Toronto324 13 років тому +2

    BEAUTIFUL

  • @felixliwei
    @felixliwei 4 роки тому +1

    That Car Go Storm Chasing : )

  • @joshuameeks6114
    @joshuameeks6114 5 років тому +1

    So this happened in joplin a few years before the tornado hit them

  • @sonconmas
    @sonconmas 11 років тому +3

    Scares the shit out of me every time when he puts his hand in front of the camera at 2:25...

  • @SupahStar247
    @SupahStar247 7 років тому

    This is incredible. Could I use this for a school project?

  • @boombastic9789
    @boombastic9789 15 років тому +4

    i was in school when this happend they sent us into the basement

  • @ingridarlington5745
    @ingridarlington5745 5 років тому

    Wow, You can hear the train sound. Great video and sound.

  • @HappyLyssa-e4r
    @HappyLyssa-e4r 4 місяці тому +1

    Tree verses tree who won? I hope everyone was safe

  • @Gunbladewarrior
    @Gunbladewarrior 4 роки тому +1

    Wonder if this guy made it through the '11 Tornado. Hope so.

  • @rarebasses
    @rarebasses 13 років тому +1

    @UtahMike41 That storm lasted 45 minutes. Winds howling all that time. I wondered the same about the Lady and kid.

  • @jonatantaddeisimancas3152
    @jonatantaddeisimancas3152 5 років тому

    beatiful storm

  • @easwisconsin7639
    @easwisconsin7639 4 роки тому +1

    my god i've seen a squall line
    you notice it when it gets dark

  • @davidcravatta386
    @davidcravatta386 9 років тому +3

    Awesome!!!

  • @chasemano789
    @chasemano789 15 років тому +1

    My grandfather dies that day it was the worste day of my life my B-day was 10 days after I cried for week I think the storm was my grandfathers passing.

  • @raithendk4980
    @raithendk4980 3 роки тому +1

    This sounds like Minecraft thunder 3:04

  • @triton115
    @triton115 15 років тому

    Now if only nature can get something like that to come through Cicero, Illinois, where I have a dining canopy exclusively retrofitted for severe weather, and where I can sit under the canopy and videotape the storm.

  • @cuwterthanu8087
    @cuwterthanu8087 2 роки тому

    Wait are those Cleveland pear trees?

  • @frankmikolay5815
    @frankmikolay5815 4 роки тому +1

    Poor Joplin gets some violent weather!!!

  • @mattjenssen7518
    @mattjenssen7518 3 роки тому

    Did you have southeast winds as inflow? Outflow winds west?

  • @mrmanlet7385
    @mrmanlet7385 6 років тому

    Power flickered at the end of the video, didn't it?

  • @johndavies7180
    @johndavies7180 4 роки тому +1

    Sure looked like a funnel on right where power flashes were

  • @jamiesaunder611
    @jamiesaunder611 3 роки тому

    Man that is freaking bad ass

  • @rss7329
    @rss7329 6 років тому +1

    Holy shit!! 😨😨

  • @Im-just-Stardust
    @Im-just-Stardust 2 роки тому

    The mom and the baby, it was a bad decision I believe to leave with the car. Too late, the storm was already there, and she drove right in the storm. Her intention were good but that was dangerous.

  • @terrymoore4685
    @terrymoore4685 4 роки тому

    This why some people get killed why in the world would you leave the house if you see a storm like this practically on top of you?

  • @patricklaurojr7427
    @patricklaurojr7427 2 роки тому

    Def powerflash but could been some trees close to wires blowing hard

  • @northwoodsmanbybobolink336
    @northwoodsmanbybobolink336 Рік тому +1

    That was definitely nasty!! 😳

  • @Bororeed
    @Bororeed 15 років тому

    I saw several power flashes. Without fail, they tell you where the gust front is. Good video, jsut wish you would've caught the winds after the storm, they were much stronger. Hell, they toppled the KSN tower.

  • @Cat-ql7jm
    @Cat-ql7jm 2 роки тому

    They say power flash, I say lightning!

  • @danieladamczyk08
    @danieladamczyk08 7 років тому +1

    This was just a free trial...