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
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.
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!
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 =[
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.
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!
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.
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
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...
@@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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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. :)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
