EXTREMLEY CLOSE LIGHTNING BARRAGE! - We were terrified! 

Yeah that’s my buddy Chris for you lol

Pretty sure that's actually wise. You want the car to form a completely unbroken surface around you in order to create a Faraday cage. If your vehicle is struck the lightning will, hopefully, travel over the surface of your car and discharge to the ground, without ever energizing the inside of the vehicle. Would also be wise to put down the camera and take hand off the dash as if the car does become energized, the current will likely leap through electrical components.

A good plan! Better to not be open!

Just goes to show he is smarter than you, lol.

@@CeltonHenderson Sounds like a smart one. He did the right thing.

It is a sound that you really never want to hear from any. With little reaction time given, the next thing you know you drop down on all fours lol.

I've been close to a couple powerful lightning strike, and the sound I heard was like a piece of cloth being torn right before the massive boom of thunder. That tearing sound is from the upward and downward leaders forming an ionized channel for the bolt to pass through.

That's actually insane, you're 100% right that's the leader from the ground! Holy crap

2:21 you can hear it again

It was, any one of those bolts could have hit us.

I've seen videos of positive lightning barrages with no more than 5 seconds between strikes. One of the people filming such a video remarked that it was going to burn some of the houses down. What these videos had in common was very little rain or wind as the tightly spaced barrage was going on. I wonder if the lack of wind and rain could be a clue as to what causes an area to become that highly energized.

​@@BingBreep-mk6om we got lightning like this sometimes in Colorado, it started forest fires all the time.

That is also from the closest upward streamer.

damn that lighting was so loud even a laser expert with 1m+ subs commented

@@sedrah11 he chases tornados on his channel now and has filmed barrages of lightning as well check it out!! :D

@@Maximus1879- yeah ik

Lol, yeah.. that last one scared the hell out of me. That sound your hearing is likely upward streamers coming up out of the ground near us.

u know it's too close when you hear a "zap" before the crack of thunder.

Hahaha I had to go back and listen and it's a bang on description 😂 I woulda done worse, this is insane lightning

​​@@CeltonHenderson How'd I miss this for a whole year? You got 24k subscribers m'dood! 🤘🏼 Skills

Storm chasing is definitely a bit dangerous but I do it to witness the beauty of these storms, there’s nothing quite like it on Earth. I can definitely understand having a phobia of storms though, they can be and are extremely dangerous sometimes. The lightning barrage in this video absolutely would have killed us if we weren’t inside our cars which acted like faraday cages protecting us from the strong electric fields and the bolts themselves. It’s always important to remember that’s it’s extremely unlikely you will ever suffer any direct harm from storms but it’s not irrational at all to fear them.

I had this phobia too, for years. I had to go to therapy. I would had panic attacks If I saw a storm coming.

How was it mate did it storm?

Near Arkansas City, Kansas

@@CeltonHenderson Impressive stuff!

Awesome :D

This is most of the original footage, edited versions of it make appearances in some of his 2022 videos.

A lot of us start out being afraid of it before it turns into a fascination.

Since 1996, I started photographing weather.

@@CeltonHenderson I was always afraid of lightning but as you say I find it fascinating today because I know it is the power of the Lord.

@@patcola7335 It's the power of static charge. The Lord is way more powerful than lightning. 😢

Yup, that’s the sound the upwards streamers make right before they make contact. I’ve unfortunately been close enough to hear that sound on several different occasions lol.

Keep up with the Great Work :)

I’m pretty sure it was a hailstone but it’s possible.

This was filmed in Kansas. I’m actually from Florida and have experienced storms like this many times. Intense story! I can imagine it was scary.

@@CeltonHenderson interesting. Near Kansas city? I have not experienced thunderstorms in kansas. But i have listened to many videos of storms in the midwest. The thunder seems to sound quite different in the midwest to my ears. I assume that this was a supercell, and that cape values were well in excess of 3000, 4000 j/kg?

@@MrStundon1 this was somewhere in Southeastern Kansas near the Oklahoma border and yes it was a supercell.

@@CeltonHenderson Very interesting. Do you guys ever get derechos with extreme lightning rates? For instance, the derecho/mcs that moved through northern illinois and northwest indiana on August 4 2008. On that day, dew points were in the 80’s, cape values were in excess of 5000 j/kg. Here in Ireland, you’d be lucky to get 5 days of thunderstorms per year. We don’t have as much instability on the European continent as the US. Nevertheless severe thunderstorms do occur especially in the mediterranean during the fall months. The western mediterranean in particular due to strong jet-streaks and a very warm mediterranean sea . CAPE values around 3000 j/kg are common. This phenomenon is known as a mediterranean epesode, and can lead to devastating flash floods and very high lightnning rates. But CAPE values higher than 3000 j/kg are extremely rare in Europe., usually only occuring once every few years. I am also aware that in Florida, the setup in summer is often high instability but very low windshear. I study meteorology in my free time so i’m really interested in atmospheric setups etc. . On very rare occasion’s mesoscale convective systems hit the UK, setup is usually a low pressure system in the bay of biscay and an upper level trough moving into southern UK from France. Although these systems are often elevated.

@@MrStundon1 yes, Derechos are fairly common in the United States. They are pretty rare where I live in Florida though.

Yeah, what the hell is that? I heard it too!

@@oldiesmusic76rain hitting the roof maybe

On August 16'th 2020, 3:30 AM, SF east bay, CA, I was woken in terror from a deep sleep by an explosive painfully loud boom that caused the windows to shake. I thought it was a bomb at first and world war 111 had started, as I wasn't expecting it and there was no rain. Then I heard it again: positive lightning had struck the tree across the street twice, splitting it's trunk and causing it to partially collapse over the utility line.

The resulting California firestorms lasted for months, burning unprecedented millions of acres and turning the sky a murky orange so we could only see a few blocks at it's worst. We were always coughing with the taste of smoke and the feel of grit in our mouths during the rest of that horrific summer.

to me it sounded like a hailstone hit the car. but jsut 1 , your theory sounds more plausible than mine. thats way to close. Maybe a step leader that the camera didnt see?

Yeah, it was probably a smaller leader coming off the car.

@@keithposehn Very scary, if he would have been outside the car he'd be dead or very seriously injured. That's crazy!

@@keithposehn This lightning storm would make me stay inside no doubts about it, away from windows and pipes. This storm ain't messin around.

It sounded like something hit the car, but the idea of it being a step leader coming off the car that the main bolt didn't connect with is incredible, terrifying, and awesome.

Lightning is incredible to watch :)

@@CeltonHenderson I agree, It is way better and more exciting then an n@aked women lmao

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This has nothing to do with Jesus.

@@Sartorri4666Are you kidding? It has everything to do with Jesus.... Your very existence is because of him.

@@patcola7335 your are a liar. Jesus does not have anything to do with thunderstorms. That's mother nature my friend. God created us to be clear. Jesus saved us. You better get it straight in your head or risk being left behind. 😢

@@Sartorri4666 .. 😂 lol. He CREATED EVERYTHING ! You better stop trusting men and read your Bible for yourself ! There is NO MOTHER NATURE....more atheist nonsense. Believe in the LORD JESUS and be saved ! Call on his name and you shall be saved ! Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again on the third day 1 Corinthians 15.

@@patcola7335 You better be careful. Jesus is my cousin and he did not create anything. He was a man. Tread lightly demon. You risk your very soul with your nonsense. I've read every version of the Bible. Even those written before Jesus birth. Mother nature is just a term or figure of speech, not a real entity like our creator. You need to understand the difference between God, The Holy Spirit, and Jesus. Until you do, you will be left behind. You are Satan's pawn and have been lied to. Stop being rude.

We almost had another Prius get zapped after that day

@@CeltonHenderson Well I could probably provide some assistance at this point in getting it fixed if it ever happens! 🤣

@@MorePi hahaha