Exactly! We were 8 minutes down the street from home. Tornado warning on the phone, then like a minute later a Destructive Storm Warning, I think that one scared me more. Then bam it was on top of us. Got caught at a red light just before our street and the sky was so dark and lighting up green. Ran in the house just in time for the power to go out. gathered the dogs and huddled in the hallway! Scary stuff! Hope you and yours are well!
@@TangledWinston naa just fulfilling his ignorant narcissism. I wish it was its own country that way the pacific nw wont see more of them become climate refuges in our part of the country.
The most bizarre scene I have ever seen is the way it got so dark it looked like the middle of the night but once it blew over, the sun was out for almost two hours after and everything seemed so bright and clear. It's almost as if we were briefly transported to another dimension.
I chase tornadoes for a hobby, so have seen some of the craziest thunderstorms ever. This is one of the craziest ever, and is something ive only seen one other time. So powerful that it fully blocks out the sun and turns day to night is unreal power. Thoughts go out to those affected
That had to be about 530-6pm. A good TWO HOURS before sunset. My wife had just made it home to Montgomery County from a conference in Clear Lake. That camera view is accurate. It was DARK !!
@pamelah6431 EXCUSE ME Pam-meh-lah. I commented before I got that part in the video, but nonetheless, it was an hour and a half or so before sunset. The POINT BEING, it was still early enough in the evening that there would be ample sunlight outside. I hope you and those who don't understand that are happy.
It's hard to go by camera views because they are often brighter or darker than what the human eye sees, but you said this was accurate because you saw this first hand. I've heard of "dark as night" storms (really just a metaphor), and I've been in daytime storms where it got very dark, but never night-night like this. I'm thinking a lot of dust had gotten kicked up into the storm from somewhere else and that's why this particular storm was so dark.
This storm was terrifying. I usually love bad weather, but this one was different. The darkness and wind were nothing like I've seen before. Tornado touched down not too far from where I was. The wind was crazy. I'm thankful my home and car were ok.
That's a derecho! I've seen derechos before. So I know firsthand how dangerous and destructive derechos can be. Derechos are a complex of thunderstorms that comes together and becomes long-lived windstorm that can travel for hundreds of miles. It's not unusual at all for derechos to have winds well over minimal hurricane force. The worst time of year for a derecho complex in the US is during the month of May, although you can have derechos anytime during the summer months. Sometimes derechos have been called an "inland hurricane."
I drove through towne lake with my family and we were devastated at the damage over there! absolutely insane. Wishing everyone at towne lake a fast recovery ❤️🩹
I experienced the derecho that went through Illinois last June, it was darker than midnight during the lunch hour that day. When they blew the sirens, my cat was the smart one, he went into hiding, while i watched it roll through. I live just outside of Springfield, the state capitol, while my town didnt get much damage, Springfield sure did, and it took a while for power to be restored in some areas. Yeah, that was scarier than schnott, dont want to go through that again!
Yeah, I live in Illinois and I’m getting quite tired of these so-called ‘derechos’, the one last June and all the others we’ve been getting here for a few years are starting to really piss me off! As soon as I retire I’m getting out of here, and I’m going to find some other place to live in that is not this crazy!
I’ve been through many storms similar to, but not equivalent to this one in my lifetime. Thy thoughts and prayers are with those affected and their families. This was a wicked storm.
Me and my daughter left the Heights area from work and ran right into on I10 😢 it was absolutely terrifying. The wind, rain and our car shaking. We prayed and called my mom and told her we loved her.. we were that scared.
That darkness hit in about 30 seconds. Man that would be terrifying. I remember that storm looking at the radar and I'm in Louisiana. Everyone of those cells in the past week had tornados and high winds involved with a lot of lightning.
I live in the Montrose area, and I have been through several Hurricanes and a tornado once that uprooted a tree and a 10 foot circle of roots. The winds were worse Thursday than anything I had ever seen. I made my dog get away from the windows it was so scary. I moved 2 weeks ago, and my old neighbor 75 feet away still has no power, and my street two houses down have no power. Second move I have made, where within a couple weeks, the past place had a major problems. Makes me so happy I moved.
Crazy I was literally watching the footage of the EF5 that hit Joplin years ago just the day before this weather headed our way. The sky turned black back then too. Didn’t know an EF1 would do that too. Tornados are horrifying and we didn’t even get the worst of it.
I was only a couple miles north of the Parkersburg tornado and it was the scariest thing I've ever been through. Looked like it was 2 miles wide, sucked people out of their basements. They found debris all the way in Wisconsin.
Wow I’ve only ever seen a non-tornadic storm that scary once before in my life, probably 15 years ago on the interstate in south Florida. Floridians know thunderstorms there can get pretty crazy, they’re used to it and those crazy people will drive through anything. But that particular storm EVERYONE just stopped dead because you had to because of the shear amount of rain and speed of wind. Packed interstate around 5-6pm, but you couldn’t see the head or tail lights of cars that were literally within arm’s reach. It lasted about 2 minutes at that intensity I’ll never forget that.
@gordon9177she’s actually right. Here since the time zone switched the sun sets at 8/8:30 the latest so yes it should’ve been daylight around this time.
@@LynnMcAllister were you not even listening to the video? The guy said its 6:30, the sun doesn't even set for another two hours. So yes it was that dark during the day
This storm was particularly strange as it was spooky. It wasn’t a tornado and wasn’t a hurricane either. But it was definitely something in between. These storms in 2024 are getting weirder by the week.
Very reminiscent of the 2020 derecho that hit here in Iowa. I was in a second floor office building surrounded by glass. It came in so fast, and seeing the trees nearly snap in half, it was crazy. The area on my drive home looked so much like a war zone.
That’s bad!! I got family and friends live in Santa Fe where I use to live. It’s been storming down here in southeast live oak county all day, there’s a little break in the storms.” Not for long there more storms going to continue until 6:00 this evening. Then another chance of storms around 9:00pm tonight..” Y’all stay safe stay dry!!
it was 6-7pm. 6 TO 7. it’s always light outside around that time but it looked like it was 9pm. there was green in the clouds, my older brother had the shelter ready. it was a scary night, and im so glad nothing terrible happened in my area.
i was driving home when the storm reached its climax. it was pitch black and i witnessed the traffic lights break. Trees were about to fall and the windshield wiper couldn’t keep up
My family had to take shelter in my grandmothers home cause it is more stable than our mobile home, we ran to the car before the heavy winds came in, we had tornado warnings come in. We were speeding off into our grandmothers house, fortunately, we had everyone including our dogs. He headed to the driveway and we checked we had everyone and we ran the the door. The wind felt so strong. We took shelter in the closet for several minutes. There was a massive branch on the front yard, and a few more on the backyard. Our mobile home was not touched by any branches.
I lived in Joliet Illinois in 96,97 and back then every summer you would get storms like that. It would be 12 in the afternoon and it would be pitch black with tornado sirens going off and crazy wind and lightning. Needless to say I'd sleep in the basement all summer cause the storms would pop up out of nowhere.
Thank you for your comment, I live in Joliet, Illinois now…have been here since 1999, and let me tell you. We have had these storms EVERY year, there never is a year when we get to have some peace! The sky can be completely blue, with not a single white cloud or anything at all, and then in a couple of seconds, ‘midnight’ rolls in (that’s what I call these things, ‘midnight’, because it’s like a ‘wall’ of midnight darkness rolling in out of nowhere), and you are swept away by 79-95 mile-an-hour winds that blow away entire neighborhoods and wipeout power to entire towns in a matter or seconds! I hate this place, I hate this place with such a passion.
literally!!! Originally from Houston, now living in Austin 4 years for school. The eclipse was not even that dark, it took a lil bit for the sky to darken but it wasn’t sudden like this, with no AC, no power and the temperatures/humidity rising on a daily basis, i cannot imagine how bad it is
I left my apartment at approximately 6:13 pm on Thursday evening with the sky looking totally normal (very light gray "overcast" - not even remotely ominous). 4 minutes down the feeder road of 290 (at 6:17 pm), it was charcoal black-colored in the sky and an alert comes through telling me that if I'm in a car, get to a sturdy building NOW. It was insane.
I remember one thunderstorm in Preston, UK when I was in my late teens had the same darkening effect. It was known as a Spanish Plume Effect and day literally turned into the dead of night and the thunderstorm which followed was huge. It was super bizarre!
I was driving to the 21 concert and about 10 miles down I-10 the black clouds finally caught up with us….had to pull over almost immediately and damn was it bad😭it was dark and it started hailing on us I though I was gonna get sucked up by a tornado. Good less I made it to the 21 concert only 2 hours late.
I was stuck on the freeway during the storm near Spring Branch. I am at an advanced age and I had never seen or experienced anything like it. I honestly still am a bit shook by it.
This kind of footage of a severe storm darkening the sky as if it is night, is quite terrifying and scary! I'm glad that I'm not in that area and hopefully the normal weather and daylight come back soon :)
From what I understand this was a derecho, which has been described as a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. Winds can exceed 100 mph in these type of storms.
When i hear that something else happened to Houston I always have tears because Houston is my home. Haven’t been there since 2019 but will always be home but damn we suffer there smh 🤦🏾♀️
I was parked in the middle of the downtown area when the storm came through. A big tree branch fell off a a tree and landed not even 1 or 2 feet from my car on the curb. It was really close. Probably shouldn't have parked near/under the tree but I didnt know the storm would be that bad. I couldn't even see the skyscrapers that were just in front of me. It was a wild storm.
When i was using my phone in my bedroom, I got a tornado warning that told me to seek shelter, and that the wind speeds were going to be +80mph so I looked at the window and it wasn't really dark at that moment, but when it looked at it again, i saw a huge dark cloud getting closer really fast.
And this is EXACTLY why I can't move back to Texas...especially HOUSTON!!! I love the culture, I miss my people...but not enough to move back. I will stay right here in the Arizona desert, thank you very much. And I actually use to miss the rainy days being in this desert...until the regular rainy days started turning into what felt like, real live hurricanes 😑😑😑 no mam I'm good right here.
According to my friend at the national tornado center the storm that hit Houston was in fact a mega tornado. It was in fact 22 miles wide at the base and 37 miles wide at the top. This extreme size made it impossible to appreciate that it was in fact a tornado. This is an extremely rare weather phenomenon.
There is no such thing as the National Tornado Center. There is the National Weather Service, National Severe Storms Laboratory National Oceanic Atmospheric Association and the National Hurricane Center
@@michaellewter8671 A derecho is not a mega tornado. Derechos are straight line winds. Nowhere near as dangerous as tornadic winds. They’re closer to mini hurricanes
Houston basically gets a freak weather event every other year now, it’s so tiring and having a generator will eventually become a necessity . One of multiple reasons I’ll be leaving the city and state soon.
No. Houston is in a mix of forest, swamp, and coastal grassland. One of the wettest regions of the country. None of the stereotypical landscape people think of who don't know the geography of the state of country.
Mmm thats exactly what it looked like out my door. Mannn I watched it come down like i was fixn be swept away. My house never lost power though. It was terrible and beautiful. My sister caught a tornado on the way home. I was just chilling waiting on my husband to cook me dinner ✌🏻
Happened here in Florida not long ago. Like a month or so. Was at the VA for an appointment at 230pm. 4pm rolls around as I'm still n walked past the main entrance to my next appointment... Looked out and it looked like it was damn near 930at night... I knew immediately I wasn't leaving anytime soon
Been having dreams about this before hand…I’m not surprised. Our earth is shifting is going to cause more geomagnetic storm increase for the next few years. I’m not trying to put out fear we need to get our act together and be more mindful about our planet.
someone should be prosecuted in Houston for installing those power transfer towers which are collapsing with winds just around 85mph. Can't you add idiots extra 1-2mm sickness to the still?
In my area, the EAS alarm came, and then it started raining HARD with 80 mph winds in just 30 secs. The good thing that was it was only about 30 minutes.
I've always thought it was pretty crazy how the tornados in Tornado Alley never seem to hit these major downtown areas but always seem to touch down in the suburbs. Can you imagine the destruction if like an F5 touched down in a major city with all the skyscrapers?
My Dad had just landed at IAH from CT and could not grasp the severity of the situation and how lucky he was to be IN an airport. Last we spoke I was at the pool on his layover so it made no sense to him.
Yes this is what we saw too in Hockley, nowhere near downtown. I think because of our geographic position we felt it before it made it down the neighborhoods. Still praying for Houstonian!!
@@natali1404 Yes! I'm in NW WA- close to BC, Canada and never have seen the lights! Last week, they looked 'fake,' and on the only 80-degree day we've had?! 🤦♀️
For those wondering this was at 6PM and it looks like it was Midnight
thank you
That's insane!!!
What lying midnight
Oh wow
Big facts!!! I live in channelview and it got pretty crazy over here
I was driving home but It wasn't raining yet. A friend called me and told me when the sky gets dark seek shelter. 10 minutes later it was pitch black.
are you okay??? hope you're safe right now ;;;;
@@couragedraws Yes I am, thanks. I had to park in a parking lot for about an hour, on West Park.
@@billywilliams4183 thats good to hear, glad you're ok now ^^ stay safe
@@couragedraws you too
TEXAS/HOUSTON GETTING HAMMERED BY THE BIDEN WEATHER HAMMER!!! LMFAO
2nd cam looks dystopian and apocalyptic
Just need Cthulhu to enter stage center. 😱😱
People in Texas: Call your loved ones.
People in Missouri: We'll finish the round of golf.
Reminds me of those radiation storms in fallout 4.
@@elusivelectronother way around lol
it truly happened in just 5 minutes - from the warning online, to dark to fierce wind and rain. SO scary
Exactly! We were 8 minutes down the street from home. Tornado warning on the phone, then like a minute later a Destructive Storm Warning, I think that one scared me more. Then bam it was on top of us. Got caught at a red light just before our street and the sky was so dark and lighting up green. Ran in the house just in time for the power to go out. gathered the dogs and huddled in the hallway! Scary stuff! Hope you and yours are well!
Maybe Mother Nature is sending this Oil City a big message???🤔🤔🤔🤔
Fr i was SO scared
That is insane. I’ve never seen a storm look so terrifying
You dont sound Texan. Leave.
@@iamyoung4eva21 Your southern hospitality sucks, work on it.
@@TangledWinston yes let me reinsure everything is gonna be okay lil jimmy
You’re gonna see more of it in the coming years. One way or another, just a time issue
@@TangledWinston naa just fulfilling his ignorant narcissism. I wish it was its own country that way the pacific nw wont see more of them become climate refuges in our part of the country.
The most bizarre scene I have ever seen is the way it got so dark it looked like the middle of the night but once it blew over, the sun was out for almost two hours after and everything seemed so bright and clear. It's almost as if we were briefly transported to another dimension.
Yess it was unbelievable dark ,I have never seen something like this
That what I’m saying. It didn’t get dark until almost 9. I thought I was the only one tripping.
I'm wondering if a lot of dust got kicked up into the atmosphere and that's what made it so dark.
I chase tornadoes for a hobby, so have seen some of the craziest thunderstorms ever. This is one of the craziest ever, and is something ive only seen one other time. So powerful that it fully blocks out the sun and turns day to night is unreal power. Thoughts go out to those affected
More reasons not to move to Texas
That 2nd cam showing the city skyline is a lil creepy.
4TH LARGEST
That FOOTAGE of it rolling in and SLAMMING ITSELF DOWN or WHATEVER it's WILD! LIKE, VIOLENT!!
wild
it was
That had to be about 530-6pm.
A good TWO HOURS before sunset. My wife had just made it home to Montgomery County from a conference in Clear Lake.
That camera view is accurate. It was DARK !!
0:45 he said it was 6:30. It was only a 2 min 15 sec video...
@pamelah6431
EXCUSE ME Pam-meh-lah.
I commented before I got that part in the video, but nonetheless, it was an hour and a half or so before sunset.
The POINT BEING, it was still early enough in the evening that there would be ample sunlight outside.
I hope you and those who don't understand that are happy.
It's hard to go by camera views because they are often brighter or darker than what the human eye sees, but you said this was accurate because you saw this first hand. I've heard of "dark as night" storms (really just a metaphor), and I've been in daytime storms where it got very dark, but never night-night like this. I'm thinking a lot of dust had gotten kicked up into the storm from somewhere else and that's why this particular storm was so dark.
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This storm was terrifying. I usually love bad weather, but this one was different. The darkness and wind were nothing like I've seen before. Tornado touched down not too far from where I was. The wind was crazy. I'm thankful my home and car were ok.
We truly live in the End Times.
Exactly I never seen the sky. Go complete dark Like this
Welcome to the new normal
@@mimosa27Like bad weather is a new thing we're only now experiencing, get a grip and quit your fear mongering.
No one knows if this is the end times. Only God knows.@@mimosa27
That's a derecho! I've seen derechos before. So I know firsthand how dangerous and destructive derechos can be. Derechos are a complex of thunderstorms that comes together and becomes long-lived windstorm that can travel for hundreds of miles. It's not unusual at all for derechos to have winds well over minimal hurricane force. The worst time of year for a derecho complex in the US is during the month of May, although you can have derechos anytime during the summer months. Sometimes derechos have been called an "inland hurricane."
Based information
It's a DEW- just like Lahaina & Dubai.
it was just confirmed to be a derecho. I was in Brenham when it hit, it was black as night.
Just an excuse for obvious weather manipulation
@@deafbyhiphop Like you think somebody is controlling the weather? That is called psychosis. How do people control the weather?
Cypress was literally pitch black!!! Scariest storm ive ever experienced
Bro it felt like 9pm when that storm starter it was scary…
My home was hit by that tornado that formed in Towne Lake in Cypress. That Derecho was no joke
I drove through towne lake with my family and we were devastated at the damage over there! absolutely insane. Wishing everyone at towne lake a fast recovery ❤️🩹
That 2nd camera angle starting at 1:41 looks downright apocalyptic and evil.
I experienced the derecho that went through Illinois last June, it was darker than midnight during the lunch hour that day. When they blew the sirens, my cat was the smart one, he went into hiding, while i watched it roll through. I live just outside of Springfield, the state capitol, while my town didnt get much damage, Springfield sure did, and it took a while for power to be restored in some areas. Yeah, that was scarier than schnott, dont want to go through that again!
Yeah, I live in Illinois and I’m getting quite tired of these so-called ‘derechos’, the one last June and all the others we’ve been getting here for a few years are starting to really piss me off! As soon as I retire I’m getting out of here, and I’m going to find some other place to live in that is not this crazy!
I’ve been through many storms similar to, but not equivalent to this one in my lifetime. Thy thoughts and prayers are with those affected and their families. This was a wicked storm.
Me and my daughter left the Heights area from work and ran right into on I10 😢 it was absolutely terrifying. The wind, rain and our car shaking. We prayed and called my mom and told her we loved her.. we were that scared.
That darkness hit in about 30 seconds. Man that would be terrifying. I remember that storm looking at the radar and I'm in Louisiana. Everyone of those cells in the past week had tornados and high winds involved with a lot of lightning.
I live in the Montrose area, and I have been through several Hurricanes and a tornado once that uprooted a tree and a 10 foot circle of roots. The winds were worse Thursday than anything I had ever seen. I made my dog get away from the windows it was so scary. I moved 2 weeks ago, and my old neighbor 75 feet away still has no power, and my street two houses down have no power. Second move I have made, where within a couple weeks, the past place had a major problems. Makes me so happy I moved.
The silhouette of that skyline is apocalyptic.
Crazy I was literally watching the footage of the EF5 that hit Joplin years ago just the day before this weather headed our way. The sky turned black back then too. Didn’t know an EF1 would do that too. Tornados are horrifying and we didn’t even get the worst of it.
I was only a couple miles north of the Parkersburg tornado and it was the scariest thing I've ever been through. Looked like it was 2 miles wide, sucked people out of their basements. They found debris all the way in Wisconsin.
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This is a derecho. Rather than twisting winds (a tornado), these are straight-line winds.
Wow I’ve only ever seen a non-tornadic storm that scary once before in my life, probably 15 years ago on the interstate in south Florida. Floridians know thunderstorms there can get pretty crazy, they’re used to it and those crazy people will drive through anything. But that particular storm EVERYONE just stopped dead because you had to because of the shear amount of rain and speed of wind. Packed interstate around 5-6pm, but you couldn’t see the head or tail lights of cars that were literally within arm’s reach. It lasted about 2 minutes at that intensity I’ll never forget that.
1:41 creepy and ominous
This was yesterday evening, right? Since you're saying it's 6:30
Sun sets at 8pm, is supposed to be pure daylight during 6:30pm.
@gordon9177she’s actually right. Here since the time zone switched the sun sets at 8/8:30 the latest so yes it should’ve been daylight around this time.
Yeah the storm was massive. Not supposed to be this dark in Houston
@@LynnMcAllister were you not even listening to the video? The guy said its 6:30, the sun doesn't even set for another two hours. So yes it was that dark during the day
The sky was dark green at my house, but it was pitch black further south
This storm was particularly strange as it was spooky. It wasn’t a tornado and wasn’t a hurricane either. But it was definitely something in between. These storms in 2024 are getting weirder by the week.
Very reminiscent of the 2020 derecho that hit here in Iowa. I was in a second floor office building surrounded by glass. It came in so fast, and seeing the trees nearly snap in half, it was crazy. The area on my drive home looked so much like a war zone.
That’s bad!! I got family and friends live in Santa Fe where I use to live. It’s been storming down here in southeast live oak county all day, there’s a little break in the storms.”
Not for long there more storms going to continue until 6:00 this evening. Then another chance of storms around 9:00pm tonight..”
Y’all stay safe stay dry!!
it was 6-7pm. 6 TO 7. it’s always light outside around that time but it looked like it was 9pm. there was green in the clouds, my older brother had the shelter ready. it was a scary night, and im so glad nothing terrible happened in my area.
i was driving home when the storm reached its climax. it was pitch black and i witnessed the traffic lights break. Trees were about to fall and the windshield wiper couldn’t keep up
My family had to take shelter in my grandmothers home cause it is more stable than our mobile home, we ran to the car before the heavy winds came in, we had tornado warnings come in. We were speeding off into our grandmothers house, fortunately, we had everyone including our dogs. He headed to the driveway and we checked we had everyone and we ran the the door. The wind felt so strong. We took shelter in the closet for several minutes.
There was a massive branch on the front yard, and a few more on the backyard. Our mobile home was not touched by any branches.
I'm glad your home was safe and I hope for you that you will one day live in a home that is actually fit for modern human occupation.
@@kjj26k Thanks man.
glad u made it somewhere safe & ur home is okay !
I lived in Joliet Illinois in 96,97 and back then every summer you would get storms like that. It would be 12 in the afternoon and it would be pitch black with tornado sirens going off and crazy wind and lightning. Needless to say I'd sleep in the basement all summer cause the storms would pop up out of nowhere.
Thank you for your comment, I live in Joliet, Illinois now…have been here since 1999, and let me tell you. We have had these storms EVERY year, there never is a year when we get to have some peace! The sky can be completely blue, with not a single white cloud or anything at all, and then in a couple of seconds, ‘midnight’ rolls in (that’s what I call these things, ‘midnight’, because it’s like a ‘wall’ of midnight darkness rolling in out of nowhere), and you are swept away by 79-95 mile-an-hour winds that blow away entire neighborhoods and wipeout power to entire towns in a matter or seconds! I hate this place, I hate this place with such a passion.
Imagine storms on other planets with winds the speed of a bullet.....
That looks so destructive. But beautiful. Scary times we are living in.
It was insane to me how dark it got... like an infinate times darker than the 'eclipse' overcast we had
Houston was never going to be darkened by the eclipse…it wasn’t in the path of totality. The overcast was just normal-ass cloudcover
literally!!! Originally from Houston, now living in Austin 4 years for school. The eclipse was not even that dark, it took a lil bit for the sky to darken but it wasn’t sudden like this, with no AC, no power and the temperatures/humidity rising on a daily basis, i cannot imagine how bad it is
Yes I feel the same i never in my life seen a sky go midnight black in afternoon, Definitely darker than eclipse was
That looked apocalyptic 😢 What the...? Houston, we have a problem!!!!
Darkest sky I ever seen in a thunderstorm
Imagine if the storm like this slam NYC. OMG. If this happens i will film it.
I left my apartment at approximately 6:13 pm on Thursday evening with the sky looking totally normal (very light gray "overcast" - not even remotely ominous). 4 minutes down the feeder road of 290 (at 6:17 pm), it was charcoal black-colored in the sky and an alert comes through telling me that if I'm in a car, get to a sturdy building NOW. It was insane.
I was 10 minutes away from the Tornado on 290 that destroyed a cellphone tower it was super scary and the sky was bright green
RIP Houston. Your loss will not be in vain. 😥
I remember one thunderstorm in Preston, UK when I was in my late teens had the same darkening effect. It was known as a Spanish Plume Effect and day literally turned into the dead of night and the thunderstorm which followed was huge. It was super bizarre!
When it moved through us in Hutto, Texas it was 3:30 in the afternoon and it was the same. The winds were hurricane force. And blew us away.
Was you able to hold on to anything
I was driving to the 21 concert and about 10 miles down I-10 the black clouds finally caught up with us….had to pull over almost immediately and damn was it bad😭it was dark and it started hailing on us I though I was gonna get sucked up by a tornado. Good less I made it to the 21 concert only 2 hours late.
I was stuck on the freeway during the storm near Spring Branch. I am at an advanced age and I had never seen or experienced anything like it. I honestly still am a bit shook by it.
I feel for my brother's AND Sisters in Houston. ❤
Amen.
This kind of footage of a severe storm darkening the sky as if it is night, is quite terrifying and scary! I'm glad that I'm not in that area and hopefully the normal weather and daylight come back soon :)
It was unbelievable,I was driving threw it ,like nothing I ever expected or experience in my life
Praying for Houston. Lived there years ago and there are so many great folks.
From what I understand this was a derecho, which has been described as a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. Winds can exceed 100 mph in these type of storms.
0:23 I'm confused. Why would people on higher floors in highrise buildings need to go to lower level?
The windows broke at the high building which was very dangerous
That is a horrifying dark storm in Houston.
When i hear that something else happened to Houston I always have tears because Houston is my home. Haven’t been there since 2019 but will always be home but damn we suffer there smh 🤦🏾♀️
I’m from Vegas I ain’t been home since 2020 ik ur paint
@@virgildunbar4189whats his paint
The 2nd cam was quite ok
Man made weather.
Yep weather warfare. Look into it folks not organic
Via climate change. That's what you get when humankind throws tons and tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere for over a century.
You're absolutely right! We should take accountability as a species for climate change.
@@xantronixbot
Nope.
That is horrific looking. Storms the past few years are so much more intense and angry.
I was parked in the middle of the downtown area when the storm came through. A big tree branch fell off a a tree and landed not even 1 or 2 feet from my car on the curb. It was really close. Probably shouldn't have parked near/under the tree but I didnt know the storm would be that bad.
I couldn't even see the skyscrapers that were just in front of me. It was a wild storm.
Read the comments and tell me humans are not devolving
u need to evolve human
That's just the vaxed...
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Devolve doesn't mean what you think it means.
@@robloxvids2233Look up devolution in biology. Maybe it means something different than what you think.
Wow, that is terrifying. I can’t believe how dark it got.
When i was using my phone in my bedroom, I got a tornado warning that told me to seek shelter, and that the wind speeds were going to be +80mph so I looked at the window and it wasn't really dark at that moment, but when it looked at it again, i saw a huge dark cloud getting closer really fast.
And this is EXACTLY why I can't move back to Texas...especially HOUSTON!!! I love the culture, I miss my people...but not enough to move back. I will stay right here in the Arizona desert, thank you very much. And I actually use to miss the rainy days being in this desert...until the regular rainy days started turning into what felt like, real live hurricanes 😑😑😑 no mam I'm good right here.
Ok I keep hearing dark as night, what time was it when this took place for reference?
Why can't we get these storms in canada
According to my friend at the national tornado center the storm that hit Houston was in fact a mega tornado. It was in fact 22 miles wide at the base and 37 miles wide at the top. This extreme size made it impossible to appreciate that it was in fact a tornado. This is an extremely rare weather phenomenon.
Source: Trust me bro
There is no such thing as the National Tornado Center. There is the National Weather Service, National Severe Storms Laboratory National Oceanic Atmospheric Association and the National Hurricane Center
Dude it was a confirmed derecho...mega tornado...smh
@@michaellewter8671 Derecho is straightline winds dumbass. It’s more like a hurricane
@@michaellewter8671 A derecho is not a mega tornado. Derechos are straight line winds. Nowhere near as dangerous as tornadic winds. They’re closer to mini hurricanes
Houston basically gets a freak weather event every other year now, it’s so tiring and having a generator will eventually become a necessity . One of multiple reasons I’ll be leaving the city and state soon.
I only feel sorry for the homeless people living under the bridges and such that had to deal with it!❤❤❤❤
There is probably a lot of dirt being pushed ahead of that derechos.... It happens a lot on the prairies.
Nope. No dirt dumped on us in Cypress. Just tornados and straight line winds tearing up our trees, fences, roofs, and houses
No. Houston is in a mix of forest, swamp, and coastal grassland. One of the wettest regions of the country. None of the stereotypical landscape people think of who don't know the geography of the state of country.
Think somebody has been playing with the contrast button.
Ugh I was in the storm and it was very dark and scary.
Is it just me, or has the US had some of the worst storms it's had in a while.
Where the hell is the lightning very strange
Mmm thats exactly what it looked like out my door. Mannn I watched it come down like i was fixn be swept away. My house never lost power though. It was terrible and beautiful. My sister caught a tornado on the way home. I was just chilling waiting on my husband to cook me dinner ✌🏻
WOW! That’s supposed to be daylight???!
Are you saying this isnt night time?
I had a dream we had 500mph winds at ground level and strange northern lights in the sky with narrow funnels
Seems like you have my kinda dreams = nightmares
They were mot your ordinary funnels. It was insane! @GriefStrickenLycan
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Our brains tend to show us what is on our mind when we sleep, whether we knew it or not.
@@kjj26k your ass tends to show too much
how ominous
Happened here in Florida not long ago. Like a month or so. Was at the VA for an appointment at 230pm. 4pm rolls around as I'm still n walked past the main entrance to my next appointment... Looked out and it looked like it was damn near 930at night... I knew immediately I wasn't leaving anytime soon
This was far "better" than the Eclipse a few weeks ago.
Never seen a storm that made it dark as night!!!
Yes I was in north Houston that day never seen a storm,turm day to midnight black,Darker than the eclipse
@@ChrisFord-d2n That's pretty crazy! Hope you and your family are ok!
Been having dreams about this before hand…I’m not surprised. Our earth is shifting is going to cause more geomagnetic storm increase for the next few years. I’m not trying to put out fear we need to get our act together and be more mindful about our planet.
someone should be prosecuted in Houston for installing those power transfer towers which are collapsing with winds just around 85mph. Can't you add idiots extra 1-2mm sickness to the still?
You meant steel , genius 🫡⚡️⚡️👀
Chances are, a tornado did that, not straight line winds, which is why you don't see all of them in that condition.
they spelled steel as 'still' LOL
What would prosecuting do?
Lived in Houston all my life. Never have seen that size tower go down ever! What in the world!
In my area, the EAS alarm came, and then it started raining HARD with 80 mph winds in just 30 secs. The good thing that was it was only about 30 minutes.
I've always thought it was pretty crazy how the tornados in Tornado Alley never seem to hit these major downtown areas but always seem to touch down in the suburbs. Can you imagine the destruction if like an F5 touched down in a major city with all the skyscrapers?
No lightning...?
My Dad had just landed at IAH from CT and could not grasp the severity of the situation and how lucky he was to be IN an airport. Last we spoke I was at the pool on his layover so it made no sense to him.
Still no electricity in the Glen Lee Subdivision we need your help. No electricity since Thursday last week.
Condolences to those who have lost their lives 😢
😳🙏 wheres the lightening?
my mom was stuck on the freeway when this hit houston; an 18 wheeler flipped on its side cause of the wind and the entire freeway was shaking
Was it a tornado or a straight line storm? Those straight line storms are scary
Both but the tornado hit Cypress and Waller, Straight line hit downtown
Deadly Storm ... 💀💵🫶
Yes this is what we saw too in Hockley, nowhere near downtown. I think because of our geographic position we felt it before it made it down the neighborhoods. Still praying for Houstonian!!
What is going on these days with the weather. Wow.
Derecho storms have been around for dozens of years this is nothing new lol.
Was chillin going to school and saw it rolling in since 730 it just got darker and darkder
🎉 Just like the DEWs in Lahaina & Dubai. A mere weather study ...
Yep, those doubting check out the Air Force White Paper for the late 90s titled: Weather As a Force Multiplier; Owning the Weather in 2025
Which refutes the 99% of climatologists telling you for decades, "this is how climate change look like"?
Days before there were northern lights on all media
@@natali1404 Yes! I'm in NW WA- close to BC, Canada and never have seen the lights! Last week, they looked 'fake,' and on the only 80-degree day we've had?! 🤦♀️
@@weekendatbernies2265 But we're the proud Conspiracy theorists! Those of us who've been watching the sky since the 60's know ✈️
Why y’all cut it off right before the red beam hits
Houston, we have a problem
what time
How’s everyone doing the night after y’all stay blessed my people
why do I live here again
I know that's right!!!
right
Because you can't leave.
Or can you?
How strong the gust
Idk what, but those storms aint scarier than what happened in 2013 in Moore. That was a ride.
Somebody watching??🤩🤩🤩
I’m watching😳😰
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