I have been in a few downbursts like that here in Tulsa. There was one a few years ago that was like this except no hail at the start. I was standing in the driveway about 50 feet from the car port and it went from very light sprinkle to intense 80+mph wind and rain in about 1 second. You could hear and see it approaching as it was night and you could see power line transformers lighting up the sky. I wasn't expecting it to be so sudden. I went from getting lightly rained on to soaking wet. It was pretty badass though. I had never seen electricity dance across a power line until that night. It literally danced along the line multiple times before blowing.
This is great footage! I can’t believe you got caught outside with it lol it just snuck up on ya! Anyway, I’m glad you stayed outside and kept the camera steady for the most part.. most people would have freaked out and ran inside and most likely wouldn’t have been able to hold their camera steady... most videos I’ve seen like this, once startled, the view is shot! So, good footage!
I can't believe (as chronically curious i am about this rare and mysterious natural event) this is the first time i tried to RUclips a video evidence since learning about it when White Squall was released. And for the first video result i clicked, u didn't disappoint me. And I'm a very skeptical person. "I better see some abused trees and white atmosphere i keep hearing about." The poor fence clinched it for me. This wasn't a misidentified hurricane/tornado. This was unpredicted and quick. You have demythed down bursts for me. And with such good quality video. Thanks!
dyscea Down bursts are no joke. We tend to get them out here in the desert quite a bit during the monsoon. They can get considerably more violent than this although this was certainly a strong one in this video. It's like a wall of wind. They usually hit the house with a boom and are very often associated with hail and extremely heavy rain.
Hello, I found this video and I found it vert useful, as we had a downburst where I live, in Catalunya, south west europe. I was caught in it driving my car home. We had so many trees blown down, and a big greenhouse was squashed! never seen this before...
Holy flying ice balls batman! I live in Florida and know me some RFD from tropical storms and that was intense. One that I experienced broke a huge limb off a sycamore tree and tore up my moms car. You were lucky to not have too much debris flying through the air!
Downburst can bring winds of 100 mph and this looks like a decent one. At it's peak it reminds me of a few hurricanes I have been in growing up on the gulf coast.
Ugh I hate these things. Being in Florida they're quite common in the summer due to the immense amount of rain produced. Just about an hour ago we had such a storm here, not as intense, but still...had a few brown outs. I can imagine being in tornado alley that would freak you out over there.
Those are straight line winds, not a tornado. Damage is similar but you can tell because nothing is being picked up, just blown over, and everything's blowing in one direction.
I've been in one of these before, one second it was just an average storm in Australia, the next it was like a tornado, it was so loud I didn't even hear a massive gum tree collapse right next to our house missing it my inches, and my car luckily too.. and quick as it came it was gone.. should have seen the damage it caused too.. all in one specific area..
2:33 That reminds me of the downburst we had in Lufkin, Texas when i was about 6 years old. It looks exactly like this except there were pine trees down everywhere in our street. Now i live in Fort Worth and haven't seen one since.
This happened to me about 2 years ago. A mile away, there was inches of hail (I got none). A mile in another direction, almost no damage. One street over, a 5ft thick tree snapped in half. I stood in my doorway watching winds were paralleling my house thank god).
a weaker form of this (macroburst) hit my area a while back i remember standing in my back porch watching the thunderstorm and all of a sudden a HUGE gust of wind came through it took out some small pine trees in areas. i'd say it was about a 60-70mph gust. the storm had no warning on it. just a random gust of wind similar to this
We went to Brisbane air port got home to gold coast gate was off its hinges now this gate is bolted to the wall how strong must it of been to blow the fence off its hinges and flatten it just crazy oh we found our dog later the next day at the pound
hell might have been more than that. I had a microburst hit where I live in Arizona, and I was right in the brunt of the storm and it was blowing so strong I was worried it was gonna blow my cacti down.. Imagine a 30 foot tall cactus blowing in the wind, it was insane.. Luckily they are strong, and stayed put. A neighbor lost his fence, it was blown around 200 feet away and there were some trees down, but not as much damage. Winds were probably at around 75 maybe less.
BTW I have lived here since 2001.. Last one I was in was in 2012 during July, during the haboob event in Phoenix, we had a severe thunderstorm over us, with hail, rain, winds and a microburst right over our town.
2:35 , is like a ferrari going from 0 - 100 in 5 seconds lol... Thanks for sharing . Great video. Sorry about your fence damage. Was anything on the house damaged?
@FloridaSeverWeather I was kidding. We got hit with this exact storm last night too and it was insane. Great video here. It's so obviously not fake that I figured everyone would know I was joking.
Wind exceed 100 mph in straight line winds and downburst, as well as tornadoes. @ rain, have you see videos of people in the eyewall of a hurricane? One of the largest hailstones weighed 0.75 kilo and was nearly half a foot in diameter (Occured in Coffeyville, Kansas) Tip: If you want to be a troll, don't say "No, this is this!", because you need to come up with an false but seemingly intelligent response to support your opposition. And don't try to argue with someone that knows their facts.
@ferretmomof3 yeah it sounds out of it, i never heard anything like that. If you were to join that sound with the sounds of the earth quakes we get here ( Christchurch) you going to have a really frightened audience haha.
Awesome vid. thank you for not calling it a tornado!
Lol ik right
sounds like a visit to a dentist
ya XD
yo that sound before it hit was scary as hell
It's because he had his hand over the microphone
@cloudtoground me too
That went from boring to OMG in 0.1 second.
To be honest... I think it was more like .2 seconds... :-)
Kevin vanderPoole nah fam, y'all are wrong. 0.25 seconds
That was very crazy and intense
Still easily one of the most impressive weather videos I have ever seen!
wow that was really good footage. This is the very first video I've seen of a downburst. They are just as scary as a tornado I think
The little tree was hanging of for its life
When the atmosphere sneezes
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have been in a few downbursts like that here in Tulsa. There was one a few years ago that was like this except no hail at the start. I was standing in the driveway about 50 feet from the car port and it went from very light sprinkle to intense 80+mph wind and rain in about 1 second. You could hear and see it approaching as it was night and you could see power line transformers lighting up the sky. I wasn't expecting it to be so sudden. I went from getting lightly rained on to soaking wet. It was pretty badass though. I had never seen electricity dance across a power line until that night. It literally danced along the line multiple times before blowing.
You could here it coming in the video. Just kept getting louder until boom it's on top of ya. Great video
This is great footage! I can’t believe you got caught outside with it lol it just snuck up on ya! Anyway, I’m glad you stayed outside and kept the camera steady for the most part.. most people would have freaked out and ran inside and most likely wouldn’t have been able to hold their camera steady... most videos I’ve seen like this, once startled, the view is shot! So, good footage!
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2:33 man i hate the fuckin dentist!!!
+savagekill82 lol wtf was that sound
Brent Guglielemencci idk I think the door was slightly cracked or somethin, but it sounded just like the shit dentist use to suck water xd
+PAID DIABLO 666 ikr😂
Thats funny af
Well that escalated quickly. O-0
Thats kinda the definition of a downburst 😂
Lol, lol, lol 🤣🤣🤣, you said the right words at 2:35, man that wind HIT hard!
I can't believe (as chronically curious i am about this rare and mysterious natural event) this is the first time i tried to RUclips a video evidence since learning about it when White Squall was released. And for the first video result i clicked, u didn't disappoint me. And I'm a very skeptical person. "I better see some abused trees and white atmosphere i keep hearing about." The poor fence clinched it for me. This wasn't a misidentified hurricane/tornado. This was unpredicted and quick. You have demythed down bursts for me. And with such good quality video. Thanks!
dyscea
Down bursts are no joke. We tend to get them out here in the desert quite a bit during the monsoon. They can get considerably more violent than this although this was certainly a strong one in this video. It's like a wall of wind. They usually hit the house with a boom and are very often associated with hail and extremely heavy rain.
I believe those winds where somewhere in the around 100mph if not greater. That is one intense downburst. Great video!!!
Hello, I found this video and I found it vert useful, as we had a downburst where I live, in Catalunya, south west europe. I was caught in it driving my car home. We had so many trees blown down, and a big greenhouse was squashed! never seen this before...
Great video! you can see the rain foot as it approaches. I would estimate winds to be 90 to 102mph. Very strong downburst.
You know it is a true storm vid when the narration includes, "Holy Sh%t !!!"
Very impressive...
That's some bouncy grass you got there. lol
Lmfao
Ran into one of these driving late last night. Scariest shit ever dodging falling trees left and right. Winds topped out at 110mph.
80-100mph sustained for a good 30 seconds or more... nuts. Hope the insurance took care of your fence.
Derecho! Inland hurricane...
This is the best downburst I've ever seen.... wow.. this shows the real strength of mother nature.
It's seems a little stronger than that! at 10m those gust seem to be around 160km/h (100MPH)
Holy flying ice balls batman! I live in Florida and know me some RFD from tropical storms and that was intense. One that I experienced broke a huge limb off a sycamore tree and tore up my moms car. You were lucky to not have too much debris flying through the air!
Downburst can bring winds of 100 mph and this looks like a decent one. At it's peak it reminds me of a few hurricanes I have been in growing up on the gulf coast.
Ugh I hate these things. Being in Florida they're quite common in the summer due to the immense amount of rain produced. Just about an hour ago we had such a storm here, not as intense, but still...had a few brown outs. I can imagine being in tornado alley that would freak you out over there.
Those are straight line winds, not a tornado. Damage is similar but you can tell because nothing is being picked up, just blown over, and everything's blowing in one direction.
Dude that maple tree in the corner was a beast that storm not a little bit of damage on it
thanks for distracting me from my reading of downbursts in college. hell yeah!
I've been in one of these before, one second it was just an average storm in Australia, the next it was like a tornado, it was so loud I didn't even hear a massive gum tree collapse right next to our house missing it my inches, and my car luckily too.. and quick as it came it was gone.. should have seen the damage it caused too.. all in one specific area..
the direction of the winds was the same, in a tornado they change direction
2:33 That reminds me of the downburst we had in Lufkin, Texas when i was about 6 years old. It looks exactly like this except there were pine trees down everywhere in our street. Now i live in Fort Worth and haven't seen one since.
0:12 Peaceful
2:39 CRAZY
this is some of the most impressive storm footage on Facebook!
RUclips
2:35 looks like that part of the microburst where it spreads out hit you.
When it first moves onscreen there is definite rotation, most likely a small tornado blowing through. Downbursts are actually quite rare.
+sputnut Actually the only tornadoes to hit on June 14th were in SD, NE, and MI so this is not a tornado.
"HOLY SHIT!!"
This happened to me about 2 years ago. A mile away, there was inches of hail (I got none). A mile in another direction, almost no damage. One street over, a 5ft thick tree snapped in half. I stood in my doorway watching winds were paralleling my house thank god).
best video of a microburst ive ever seen
2:40 sounds like the dentist.
You have a steady hand in the face of adversity. Excellent!
Hmmmm.
THIS explains why you see mass reports of damage yet no actual Tornado had been spotted.
Interesting. And humbling.
Thank you for your share..
a weaker form of this (macroburst) hit my area a while back i remember standing in my back porch watching the thunderstorm and all of a sudden a HUGE gust of wind came through it took out some small pine trees in areas. i'd say it was about a 60-70mph gust. the storm had no warning on it. just a random gust of wind similar to this
I was standing in an open-air hallway at my apartment complex when this hit. Turns out wind blows faster through a narrow corridor. Who knew?
Looks 100+
Holy downburst Batman! I remember that day well, fortunately I was south of the main downburst.
Nice work holding the camera fairly steady and not talking too much.
Here in Rhode island we don't get many downbursts, but I remember one when I was twelve, and it was just wild.
100% sure it was a microburst because of how quickly it came!
The strongest storm in my city is nothing compared to this. O.o
Whenever I search up storms I keep getting sleep sounds and shit even tho I was looking for this.
At the beginning you can clearly see that characteristic bent wall of rain coming
That is so amazing. I'm glad we don't get storms like this in Chicago. How often does this sort of thing happen there?
Some of those downburst can send the hail flying toward you. In this case it is actually more dangerous than being in a hurricane
very true
and could probably cause a good fracture :/
Youve never been in an actual hurrican have you? lmao
Kyle Currier Yes I've been in a lot, probably more than 30.
Awesome video of downburst!
That is one cool video. You are almost as brave as I am to continue filming the storm when that huge blast of wind hit.
We went to Brisbane air port got home to gold coast gate was off its hinges now this gate is bolted to the wall how strong must it of been to blow the fence off its hinges and flatten it just crazy oh we found our dog later the next day at the pound
in Central Arizona, I have been in 4 microbursts. Two were wet, and two were dry.
Here in Montana we have had a few downbursts flatten hudreds of acres of trees int he mountains.
Its cool how those winds come in so suddenly!
awesome downburst!
very interesting video thank you
Did the little tree survive being squashed by the fence?
The iphone Fock'd up with the 4:2 video format WTF!
Could barely get a good look @ whats going on,
hope you guy are safe though.
how many times a year, on average, do you get severe storms in norman?
hell might have been more than that. I had a microburst hit where I live in Arizona, and I was right in the brunt of the storm and it was blowing so strong I was worried it was gonna blow my cacti down.. Imagine a 30 foot tall cactus blowing in the wind, it was insane.. Luckily they are strong, and stayed put. A neighbor lost his fence, it was blown around 200 feet away and there were some trees down, but not as much damage. Winds were probably at around 75 maybe less.
BTW I have lived here since 2001.. Last one I was in was in 2012 during July, during the haboob event in Phoenix, we had a severe thunderstorm over us, with hail, rain, winds and a microburst right over our town.
Holy shit...the understatement of the day, that was intense!
A week ago there was one in Argentina, Buenos Aires, but less intense, but was very strong as the first registered in that country
How fast could be the most intense wind here? 90 km/h?
I can't figure out how you did the fence, though. That looks real. And the tree.
2:35 , is like a ferrari going from 0 - 100 in 5 seconds lol... Thanks for sharing . Great video. Sorry about your fence damage. Was anything on the house damaged?
The Preamble To A Storm Is Very Interesting.
Awesome video!!! That is a microburst explosion!!!
what did u do with the little tree that got hit by the fents
It looks like the tree is fine, but is the ground ok?
@FloridaSeverWeather I was kidding. We got hit with this exact storm last night too and it was insane. Great video here. It's so obviously not fake that I figured everyone would know I was joking.
The light at the center is the weak sun or a lamp post?
Don't ever tell Chuck Norris there's something in your eye.
wow....epic @!!!
Ues, I agree...One of the few downburst vids on youtube that show an actual bona-fide downburst.
Nice vid man that downburst is cool for me I’ve been in a lot of them lol
wow, that sounds like something being sucked through a giant straw...impressive event :3
Sustained winds gotta be atleast 60 to 70 ph with 100 mph wind gusts at one point
that was awesome, never seen anything like that before.
Oh look, hail. Let's stand outside. Oh look, dangerous winds. Let's step over here and keep filming.
very very impressive... i think i would have turned hysetrical and euphoric and ran outthere screaming...
was this filmed with a potato?
Wind exceed 100 mph in straight line winds and downburst, as well as tornadoes. @ rain, have you see videos of people in the eyewall of a hurricane? One of the largest hailstones weighed 0.75 kilo and was nearly half a foot in diameter (Occured in Coffeyville, Kansas)
Tip: If you want to be a troll, don't say "No, this is this!", because you need to come up with an false but seemingly intelligent response to support your opposition. And don't try to argue with someone that knows their facts.
It’s making noises like if you make a cup with your hands and blow in it.
@ferretmomof3 yeah it sounds out of it, i never heard anything like that. If you were to join that sound with the sounds of the earth quakes we get here ( Christchurch) you going to have a really frightened audience haha.
lmao it sounds like the thing the dentist puts in your mouth to suck out the spit
do you have any information on the wind speed or was it too localized?
It sounds like when you're spraying whipped cream and you're starting to run out of it
Are you sure that wasn't a tornado? Great video..
That was gusts of 80-90 mph!!
The thumbnail looks like Godzilla
holy shit nice footage man!!!!!!
No action and no high-speed winds and no damaging winds either
are u sure that wasn't a hurricane in your back yard bro!