I live near Greensburg, PA and these storms did a ton a damage in our area. Storms like this are almost hypnotic, this was the first time that a storm actually scared me. Great video, I took some too but it isnt as good. Great work!
@FireFlamesrocks the near strike was about 1.5 miles from the camera. It blew out a sub station on rt 50 which is about 1.5 mile from where the camera was located.
This is intense. A number of these bolts had eight or more return strokes. I counted eleven return strokes for the bolt at 1:40. From the size of some of these bolts and the number of return strokes, I am guessing that a lot of these bolts are positive.
Actually, I don't believe these bolts were positive. Positive bolts usually have only one flash and look straight. Also, the thunder from positive bolts sounds like bombs detonating.
Absolutely the best electrical storm video I've seen to date. Steady video, held in one direction (Not trying to follow each and every flash) with proper focus and no idiotic commentary. Thank-you so much!
I love storms like this that spit tons of CG's out of the shelf cloud / rain-free base. They are rare. With most storms the lighting bolts are mostly inside the rain so it isn't nearly as photogenic.
I shot this from my apartment balcony located in Mt. Lebanon. The view is from Mt. Lebanon towards the West with lightening strikes hitting area of Kirwin Heights PA
This is my favorite part of a storm. Before any rain falls, the wind, the thunder, the lightning. I especially love the singing birds in the background too. :D
Now that's a helluva storm! Could almost feel my scalp tingle as my hair stands up (actually happened once, pretty lucky)! Looks like you were pretty close to the action...
I’ll never forget this storm, I was only 7 and I can still remember the EAS coming on our TV and seconds after the broadcast stopped the lights went out and all hell broke loose outside
Thanks man, this is just amazing video... exactly what I was looking for... no voices just thunders and nature....BRAVO! Do you have some more? Here in London is crap no lightnings :(
Hello I am from Oslo,Norway and I just loved your video...Spectacular and awsome!. Seen a few in Orlando over the past years on vacation,but this one gave me goosebumps!
I live in dormont. was at my friends house in dormont up by St, Bernards church. he got up went to the kitchen and said DUDE! come quick. black wall of clouds. lol we sat on his roof till it was too close. remember this like it happened yesterday. by far the most extreme storm i ever seen.
You don't want to be outside when it is lightning like this. We had a storm like this in Detroit a couple of weeks ago. The lightning was so bad, I wouldn't dare go outside. I didn't even want to get close to the windows. Also, we had brief power outages due to the power surges. This is definitely clear the baseball diamonds and clear the golf courses kind of weather.
At 3:10 it looks like the strike may have takenout power. Look on the ground at the time of the strike and several seconds after you will see several flashes on the ground.
Now that is some amazing footage well done. I dont know if you realise that the bolts mimic each other on the far ex-streams of the clouds. very interesting.
On June 17, 2009, a rapid series of powerful thunderstorms produced multiple funnel cloud sightings. The storms dumped over three inches of rain in some locations, causing severe flash flooding.
You are correct. I went back and took one second at 3:10 and slowed it down and you can indeed see the white light from what appears to be a ground explosion. Look at the Video Responses for a better view.
the was the scariest day of my life i live in pittsburgh and i was at kennywood that day i just got off the thunder bolt and it started to happend i was a big mess!!!!!!!!!!!
My thunderstorms where I live are rather different. In Eastern France. I am very happy when I film them but they give two or three lightning strikes at most!
I loooove thunderstorms :D I recorded one yesterday and I live in the south of england :D It was awesome! It was right above our house, but only lasted about 20 minutes :p I hope we get some more.
Great lightning. My favorite was the squiggly bolt about three minutes in. This would not be a thunderstorm during which I would have liked to have been outside.
I don't know, as you get half way into the video you can clearly see the storm rotating in the back with an inflow tail to it. Dozens of positive strikes too, which usually are associated with supercells.
@@Agui007 I would definitely have to agree, you can see that the storm has a wanna be inflow band with the clouds moving from right to left as the storm itself is moving to the right or towards where the camera is located. Also the lightning is not located in the rain but what is commonly called the "vault" which is south of the rain and east of the hook echo or mesocyclone. I will have to go to Noaa and check the database but this was not atleast tornado warned I'd be shocked. Also at the beginning of the video you can see the rain/hail with the green tint ahead and to the right of the camera and towards the end the rain straight in front and a little left of the camera which to me tells me this is either a supercell with a hook echo or a line with a supercell within the line. There is also a lowering at the end of the video, I believe this is a rotating storm but will look into it.
If you watch this video in fast forward, you can actually see the clouds circling in a tornado-like fashion. I'm surprised they didn't have us under a tornado warning tfor this one. Without a doubt one of the craziest storms I've ever been witness to!
One of the best storm videos I've ever seen. So atmospheric!
I live near Greensburg, PA and these storms did a ton a damage in our area. Storms like this are almost hypnotic, this was the first time that a storm actually scared me.
Great video, I took some too but it isnt as good. Great work!
@FireFlamesrocks the near strike was about 1.5 miles from the camera. It blew out a sub station on rt 50 which is about 1.5 mile from where the camera was located.
This is one of the best lightning storms I've ever seen. Thanks for the friggin awesome footage
The view is from Mt. Lebanon to the West. The strikes appear to be in Kirwin Heights PA.
Yikes! What a storm! And such beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing this.
This is intense. A number of these bolts had eight or more return strokes. I counted eleven return strokes for the bolt at 1:40. From the size of some of these bolts and the number of return strokes, I am guessing that a lot of these bolts are positive.
Actually, I don't believe these bolts were positive. Positive bolts usually have only one flash and look straight. Also, the thunder from positive bolts sounds like bombs detonating.
Absolutely the best electrical storm video I've seen to date. Steady video, held in one direction (Not trying to follow each and every flash) with proper focus and no idiotic commentary. Thank-you so much!
I love storms like this that spit tons of CG's out of the shelf cloud / rain-free base. They are rare. With most storms the lighting bolts are mostly inside the rain so it isn't nearly as photogenic.
yes it was loud and the closest strike was about one mile away.
I shot this from my apartment balcony located in Mt. Lebanon. The view is from Mt. Lebanon towards the West with lightening strikes hitting area of Kirwin Heights PA
This is my favorite part of a storm. Before any rain falls, the wind, the thunder, the lightning. I especially love the singing birds in the background too. :D
@waggeo99 This view is from The Bower Hill Apartments facing due west, looking across Scott Twp to Kerwin Heights, across I-79 and on to Ohio.
The thunder sounds like explosions with the sound quality which is funny.
Nice catch!!!! I'd like to film some storms here in Montreal. We don't have often storms like that but they are as scary as that....
This is one of the best thunderstorm videos i've seen on RUclips
Great upload
There was one tornado warning in parts of Pittsburgh because there was a tornado spotted on the south side.
@Flackerr
The speed of sound is about one kilometer in three seconds or approximately one mile in five seconds.
Still one of my favorite videos 4 years later
Thor is battling with the Hulk again.
Freddy, There could have been closer strikes but the one that hit a power sub station was about a mile away.
One of the best thunderstorm vids I have seen......
freekin awesome video man, you can see the cloud rotation, i'm from the latrobe area, westmoreland county, storm there was insane
Man that's a massive and very beautiful storm. If only we had such thunderstorms in Greece.
Great storm... Showing my three year old this vid as we have thunderstorms in the uk today. This was a great example of thunder & lightening!
Now that's a helluva storm! Could almost feel my scalp tingle as my hair stands up (actually happened once, pretty lucky)! Looks like you were pretty close to the action...
Thank you, Great video I enjoyed seeing who long it took for the sound to reach the camera after each lightening bolt.
I’ll never forget this storm, I was only 7 and I can still remember the EAS coming on our TV and seconds after the broadcast stopped the lights went out and all hell broke loose outside
Best lightning video yet!
Dude that looks a lot like a supercell thunderstorm, just the way the updraft looks and the slight spin you see in the clouds!
Thanks man, this is just amazing video... exactly what I was looking for... no voices just thunders and nature....BRAVO!
Do you have some more? Here in London is crap no lightnings :(
this is the best storm video ive seen - ans such a clear picture!! awesome
That was one of the longest,loudest,storms that I ever heard! Great lightening shots,too.
Hello I am from Oslo,Norway and I just loved your video...Spectacular and awsome!. Seen a few in Orlando over the past years on vacation,but this one gave me goosebumps!
1:40 loudest thunder ever
4:40 super Duper loud thunder crack
What a Beautiful Storm !! Congratulations !
This is absolutely superb...
I believe you wasn’t expecting to hear that thunderstorm coming closer and closer towards your area Richard
Actually I was expecting the storm to come directly at me because that is the way most storms roll here, West to east.
@RichardSharp
My grandparents live there. They face Birdland aswell. You get some prety nice views of sunsets up there as well!
@phunkblister
I don't see a funnel but there's definitely some rotation with a nice inflow notch.
Wow!! Phenomenal video!! This is like the Thunderstorms we get in South Florida in the summer.
Yes, Pittsburgh is near the Ohio state line. The view if the camera is due west towards Ohio about 25 miles as the crow flies.
With the changing climate and weather patterns, Pittsburgh can definitely look forward to more significant tornadic activity in the very near future.
I live in dormont. was at my friends house in dormont up by St, Bernards church. he got up went to the kitchen and said DUDE! come quick. black wall of clouds. lol we sat on his roof till it was too close. remember this like it happened yesterday. by far the most extreme storm i ever seen.
one of the best storm vids on youtube.....5*****.
excellent video !!!
Something kept getting struck right in the middle of the camera view. Must have been really charged.
Wow, the sound of that thunder strike (4:40min) let me think of that one thunder that struck the roof of my uncles house. My dad was exactly under it.
Mt Lebanon always seems to get pounded. I live off of beadling and bird park is right across the street and the tree get annihilated by lightning.
Rich,
How close do you think the lightning was?
I remember this day. 3 storms rolled through and i was outside videotaping them all day. Lol.
This was excellent 🏆
@frogqueen84 if you pause it then scroll in this mode u can see it in slow motion...and it's even more fantastic
You don't want to be outside when it is lightning like this. We had a storm like this in Detroit a couple of weeks ago. The lightning was so bad, I wouldn't dare go outside. I didn't even want to get close to the windows. Also, we had brief power outages due to the power surges. This is definitely clear the baseball diamonds and clear the golf courses kind of weather.
Saturday August 30th Pittsburgh had some bad storms!
absolutely superb video, you have an excellent vantage point where you are.
amazing video mate, i didnt watched it through first time, second time i just lied back and listend
Thanks hasn't rained here in Southern California for 6 months.
This storm is like nothing I ever experienced!!!! These thunder claps sounded explosive!
At 3:10 it looks like the strike may have takenout power. Look on the ground at the time of the strike and several seconds after you will see several flashes on the ground.
@WhosMunch
yes they did and they blew out a electric power sub station.
like your video and this was pittsburgh pa right
Jr Kuzel yes, Mt. Lebanon a suburb of metropolitan Pittsburgh area.
Now that is some amazing footage well done.
I dont know if you realise that the bolts mimic each other on the far ex-streams of the clouds. very interesting.
if you slow it down you can see the very first lightning strike hit the street on the other block
What time of the day was this ? Morning ? How long did this storm last and was it a stormy day all day ?
On June 17, 2009, a rapid series of powerful thunderstorms produced multiple funnel cloud sightings. The storms dumped over three inches of rain in some locations, causing severe flash flooding.
i live about 2 miles away form Pittsburgh, BUT the is in 1st place at being the worst storm I've ever scene.
notice on the left that one cloud that is lighter than the other one is slowly spinning.....
Wow!! Amazing deadly lightning.
Very nice lightning and cloud structure!
Great view of an amazing storm.
What a storm! Where there any tornadoes?
was the thunder really loud and what was the closest lightning strike?
You are correct. I went back and took one second at 3:10 and slowed it down and you can indeed see the white light from what appears to be a ground explosion. Look at the Video Responses for a better view.
If it takes 5 seconds for the thunder to come, is it 5km away then ?
Moro no Vale do Paraíba,tb em SP e o clima aqui é assim tb. Eu amo essas tempestades bem eletrificadas!!
Awesome video to bad the sound is a little bad with the wind blowing around into the mic, nonetheless you can get a sense of the power of the thunder.
the was the scariest day of my life i live in pittsburgh and i was at kennywood that day i just got off the thunder bolt and it started to happend i was a big mess!!!!!!!!!!!
Im in Mckees Rocks we got it bad but not as bad as east Pittsburgh and Turtle Creek
Was there some damage from the lightning? Because some of the strikes looked pretty close.
What a brilliant view! I wanna live right there!
damn, i'm glad i clicked this video. Such a photogenic storm
Oh, it is very real and so was the affect it had on sections of Pittsburgh east of where this location.
Welcome to Pittsburgh:
If you don't like the weather,
wait 5 minutes.
Nice video and a thumbs up. What a shame about the audio quality.
@RichardSharp wow man! I hope everyone was okay!
My thunderstorms where I live are rather different. In Eastern France. I am very happy when I film them but they give two or three lightning strikes at most!
Did you shoot any other videos like this?
I loooove thunderstorms :D I recorded one yesterday and I live in the south of england :D It was awesome! It was right above our house, but only lasted about 20 minutes :p I hope we get some more.
The lighting at 1:40 stuck the ground like three times
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Savage
Structure looked somewhat like the Bridge Creek supercell May 1999. -- without the F5.
Great lightning. My favorite was the squiggly bolt about three minutes in. This would not be a thunderstorm during which I would have liked to have been outside.
Excellent Video !
Lo siento que no llegan a experimentar tormentas más a menudo, tenemos tormentas durante todo el año aquí es Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos.
What the hell is going on there? Chance is 50-50 to get hit by lightning.. its barely moving. Is this heat generated tstorm or along the front?
Wednesday June 17 2009
6:34 was close
This storm is non tornadic but very convective!
I don't know, as you get half way into the video you can clearly see the storm rotating in the back with an inflow tail to it. Dozens of positive strikes too, which usually are associated with supercells.
@@Agui007 I would definitely have to agree, you can see that the storm has a wanna be inflow band with the clouds moving from right to left as the storm itself is moving to the right or towards where the camera is located. Also the lightning is not located in the rain but what is commonly called the "vault" which is south of the rain and east of the hook echo or mesocyclone. I will have to go to Noaa and check the database but this was not atleast tornado warned I'd be shocked. Also at the beginning of the video you can see the rain/hail with the green tint ahead and to the right of the camera and towards the end the rain straight in front and a little left of the camera which to me tells me this is either a supercell with a hook echo or a line with a supercell within the line. There is also a lowering at the end of the video, I believe this is a rotating storm but will look into it.
I remember this storm. This storm did have a tornado warning with it and did cause serious damage. There was two before it.
Nice video! bravo! I am from Canonsburg pa!
If you watch this video in fast forward, you can actually see the clouds circling in a tornado-like fashion. I'm surprised they didn't have us under a tornado warning tfor this one. Without a doubt one of the craziest storms I've ever been witness to!
That is one epic lightning barrage!