I live in Fort Wayne, and experienced this, however the strong winds just missed me. Nevertheless it knocked the power out for a good few days. I remember the local weather station’s feed went down temporarily. Weatherman sounded almost like he was panicking. Brought back memories of the 2012 Derecho where winds got just as bad.
That's some excellent footage! Really shows how intense those winds were over a relatively long period of time. And those trashcans never stood a chance.
Note: no trash cans were seriously hurt in the making of this video! The trash cans you've seen were just actors the names were changed to protect their identities
Fantastic footage. We had one in Ontario, Canada back in May, and tornados 🌪touched down in a few places. We hadn't had a storm like that in over 40 years. I got a warning on my phone, and I said, it's already here. Have a great day 😀.
Driving home from SE Fort Wayne shortly after the wind died down, passed four… 4! semi trucks with trailers on their side on the freeway! 😱 Emergency units on the scenes, but that would be horrific to be driving along and just get pushed onto your side side when piloting a tractor trailer. The airport, near this section of road recorded some gusts of 98 mph.
You are absolutely correct, I toured (for my job, not an onlooker) both areas, s/w city and Waynedale. Waynedale definitely was hit way harder. Now with one (1) attributed death in that area.
Tri lakes got hit very hard as well. Many, many down and uprooted trees, power outages, damage. It looks like a warzone here still today, a whole week later. What a crazy storm!
It looks so nice! It reminds me of the afternoon and evening Spring & Summer storms that tear through Brisbane and Southern Queensland in Australia. They'd drop 2 or 3 inches of rain in an hour then move out to sea and intensify into a line of gigantic, boiling, blazing thunder heads lighting up the sky for hours. In the late evening the heat would return, silent, still and yet those thunderheads would continue their incredible light show well into the small hours. Then the entire cycle would repeat the next day. The heat would cause convection, warm humid air would come in from the Coral Sea building up afternoon storms that lash the coast by the early evening.
I live SW in Aboite township. I was in my east facing garage pulling in my trash bin when it hit. I have lost 4 trees completely and damage has been done to several more. I had a tree on my roof. It seems when a really bad storm comes I to town, we get slammed hard.
I live by Saint Francis University and this storm had me a bit nervous. I was actually waiting for a tornado to sprout up, thankfully never did. The lightening and thunder was the worst I can recall in my 50 yrs in Fort Wayne. It seemed non-stop for at least a half hour, and the lightening was so loud and strong that it sounded as if it was touching down right next to my house (it didn't but felt like it). I kept watching my tree's just praying they wouldn't fall on my house. I felt this was a little worse than 2012 only bc it was non-stop for at least a half hour, which I felt was unusual for our normal bad storms. BUT WE SURVIVED 😊
One of the rounds of storms tore through Van Buren County, MI , and the historic Van Buren County Historical Museum, a poorhouse built in 1884, lost part of its roof. This is near the VB Co fairgrounds near Hartford, MI.
I live about 60 miles from fort wayne and remember seeing the rolling thunder in the distance just flashing one after another, completely silent. It was so beautiful and frightening at the same time.
I live north of Auburn and i literally watched this storm bypass me. It put on one hell of a lightning show!!! I saw it heading to the Fort and thinking oh shit they are gonna get clobbered!!
I just happened to be visiting a friend on the south side of Fort Wayne in the Waynedale area... on a street called (If I remember correctly) Old Trail Road... That was some wicked scary stuff right there... The sound was nasty, the sound of trees being snapped in half that were 2 to 4 foot in diameter, like tooth picks, all around my buddy's house. There was a massive tree in the front lawn of the house directly across and I watched that then first get all the huge limbs get shredded and collapse down crushing a Toyota and a Honda like a soda can under a foot stomp.. Then the 100 to 150 foot tall trunk got pushed over and was blocking 3 drive way...LOL... I want to go back home.. The heck with Indiana.. What was strange, it was Trash pick up or something, for the next day? and so there was trash can out at the streets edge, with all that chaos of 80 to 100 mph wind and 1000's of tons of wood falling out of the sky, there was two trash can just sitting there, not moving...Make sense of that.. That morning, In the process of checking of folks and helping to clear things out of the road ways, getting people's generators hooked up and what not, while walking by those two trash cans, I just had to look inside, assuming there was 8000 tons of concrete in them, that prevented their movement... Nah, each just had one trash bag inside... I could move those large cans around with one hand, so they are not heavy at all, but some how, all that violence, was afraid to attempt to move either of those trash cans. Heck, that is where I will hide in a storm like that, in one of those trash cans...LOL.. Great footage on this video.. Well done..
Wow. I saw that tree down that you were talking about. Just amazing. I had to laugh at your comment about the trash cans. It just makes you wonder how some little almost weightless thing can remain standing while some 150 year old massive tree can fall like dominoes.
@@chk3700 ah, so you got to see and hear all that chaos too... That was scary trippy. I haven't ever seen rain rain sideways or horizontal to the ground.. lol
I live on the Sw side where we got the worst of it. Winds 98 mph....lightening was like led headlights flashing in all the rooms...couldn't wait for it to end
I grew up ib the Fort Wayne area. Graduated from Northside High School 1966. I ended up in Phoenix, Arizona after 4 years in the Marines. I remember 1955 we had a bad storm like this. It was bad. It blew over barns north of Fort Wayne on the Wallen Rd. . Its hot here in Phoenix this time of year but beautiful the rest of the year.
I was born here in 1963, moved to California in 1985. I hated the severe thunder and lightning storms we always had. Graduated from Paul Harding High in 1982.
Great video indeed! I know someplace either in Ohio or Indiana would end up getting a Derecho and it looks like Fort Wayne, IN got it. Those trashcans knew when it was time to leave Speedway.
If this is the storm that happened on Monday I have a sick video of rotation over south bend from the severe thunderstorm warning we had. It was very wide but it was still awesome to see. It was during the sunset so you could see all the clouds moving around.
@@Religious_man It most certainly is! Instead of the usual vertical path, here the bolts move horizontally- between clouds. Since the bolt remains in the thinner air, no thunder is heard on the ground.
"Instead of the usual vertical path, here the bolts move horizontally- between clouds." Ok, but kind of clouds are you referring to? There is the standard intra-cloud lightning, and we have cloud-to-cloud lightning and we have cloud-to-air lightning. Distance and sound has nothing to do with these lightning types.
What we call heat lightning is lightning jumping between clouds, which occurs when the clouds have different charges, so the bolts remain in the sky. Since the air is thinner up there, thunder is not produced.
WOW! That got really intense really quick! The peak of this video actually gives me some hurricane florence in wilmington nc (high end cat 1) vibes with the strength of the wind. Sustained was probably near or at hurricane force in this video, pretty amazing stuff.
@@lincolnhauser Oh, for sure! That is essentially 100 MPH, and that comparison I made to Florence, pretty sure the max gust at Wilmington was 104, so not a lot of difference. This was essentially a full-fledged hurricane ! Derechos are POWERFUL!
@@lincolnhauser I talked to a guy at the airport. One of the hangars was ripped open like a tin can. All the guys that work in the hangar are getting transferred to Milwaukee until they can rebuild the hangar here.
@@lincolnhauser I thought it hit 98mph back in 2012. The Derecho from this footage I thought hit like 80mph(still significant) The one from 2012 brought the city to it knees for a couple days. Quite literally too. My area was out of power for 3 days after that storm. I remember driving back into Indiana from Ohio at that time. Trees were down all the way back to the Fort Wayne from Hicksville. I was also picking up radio stations from Wisconsin. That day was just creepy feeling all around after that storm. Great footage btw! I got some footage of all the lightning that night.
@@kyleb9454 The Derecho in 2012 was 91mph. I don't know where you live in Fort Wayne, but the SW side I think got hit the hardest. I went down my childhood home on Kyle off of Sandpoint and the streets in the neighborhood are just lined with cut up trees. Waynedale was even worse. I heard several homes were condemned.
I was born in Ft. Wayne in 1963, moved to California in 1985. I sure don't miss storms like these lol. Now I just wait for the "big one" to drop California off into the Pacific Ocean.😁
@@huntleydavis6727 This was equal to a category 2 hurricane, I would call that extreme. You should drive down the streets lined with cut up trees with only room for one car to drive down the street at a time.
Crazy. I lived in that shit hole as a kid and had to seek shelter a couple of times when tornados breezed through. We even felt the effects of a mild earthquake while playing kickball in the street one day. I now live on a hilltop in PA where floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes are of little concern.
Watching winds push debris around like makes you really think serious about storm shutters to protect the windows of your house, and hurricane clips to hold your roofs on better.
Man y'all get the worst of each season up there! I was there in Jan and everything was FROZEN, back in March and everything was still frozen, and now in June a hurricane? I have to come back later in July, if you guys could please wrap this up by then that would be swell okays.👍🤣
In all of my years (68), I have never heard the term "Derecho" referred to in connection with a storm. I even had to look up the definition in a dictionary to find out what it was.
"Hows the weather look Ollie?" *"IT'S RAINING SIDEWAYS!"* "Do you have an umbrella?" *"HAD ONE!* "Where is it?" *"INSIDE OUT TWO MILES AWAY!* "Is there anything we can do for you Ollie?" *"BRING ME SOME SOUP!"* "What kind?" *"CHUNKY!"*
Wildest part about this video only 1 of all the trash cans got blown/knocked over, and even then I think that was because the wind literally picked it up and tossed it to the side other than that they just slid across . Any way Northern California gets these every so often but they refuse to give us early warning systems to warn us of severe weather threats like tornados etc. We have had 4 tornados and warnings this summer and they still refuse 100% saying they cannot justify spending the kind of money.