Hail / Wet Microburst - Olton, TX - May 6, 2008
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2008
- Storm chasers Michael Laca, Jim Leonard and Ray Walker intercepted a multi-cellular complex of supercell thunderstorms near Olton, Texas (northwest of Lubbock), on the afternoon of May 6, 2008. The initial storm (southwest of Olton) was relatively small but developed classic LP supercell features including a highly tilted mesocyclone, beautifully backlit by the sun.
The second storm evolved into a large HP supercell that prodcued a small and very brief funnel south of Olton and large hail in the fields to the north of the town.
The last storm approached Olton from the south with Level 2 radar data indicating a strong rotational couplet and four inch hail. As the storm neared Olton an extremely ominous, and rapidly moving hail shaft/microburst developed and moved northward across the town. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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4:38 when the stormchasers say "Ive never seen anything like that before." I think its time to call it a day.
Looks like A Ef7120 Mixed With a Microburst
They finally did say "Let's get out of here" right after that!! Stormchasing is fun but very risky of course!!
I unfortunately experienced a wet microburst here in south Louisiana a few years ago. It took down a big oak that was next to the house I was renting, which took the power line with it (luckily it fell the way it did or it would've taken out the house. My landlord at the time said he had ridden out every hurricane, but that event actually scared him.
That can be really intense! Some having tornado-like wind speeds, certainly enough for dangerous flying projectiles.
Up until Perhaps several years ago, possibly 10 or so years ago, I'd never even heard of the term "Microburst". However, since then, I've heard that term more and more frequently, and then:
BOOM!
On Wednesday, July 6, 2022, less than 2 weeks ago, I experienced a strong Microburst, as it passed over our City (Staunton, Virginia). At first, the Microburst hit us from the West, and blew over a bunch of Trees. I'd estimate it's wind speeds to have been between 60-70 miles an hour, or more. Then, for a few seconds, the wind stopped...and then, the winds picked back up very sharply, this time from the East. The wind speeds were at least as strong as the first part of that Microburst... maybe even stronger!
After the Storm passed. There were trees, seemingly by the thousands, that had been knocked down during that Storm.
It's been 11 days now, and while things are basically back to normal, there are still downed trees in some areas, that still need to be removed.
Ah .. such is life. One minute everything's good, and the next minute-Nope!
Very nice and interesting supercell with this downburst and amazing rainbow at the end.
Wow, that's a real nice microburst. I've never seen or knew about this new phenomenon as well but i was introduced with microbursts in the same year like you did, only one month later in my living town. 2008 In The Netherlands, with hail as large as golf balls which destroy cars, roofs and windows :O and a big river down the road from a hilll side and very heavy winds. Then i learned about microbursts as well. It was even on the national news and the weather forecast. We have had more microbursts in other cities and villages as well in different years.
In 2019 we have had even a real F2 tornado in the dark evening, which has destroyed homes, trees and other buildings. Such tornadoes are very very rare in our little country. I was really surprised the next day, like WHAT!? A real tornado? Here? It was also in the local and national news. The aftermath was very clear, also seen in a video from above. A long path of destroying, mostly trees, forrests and landscape. I have felt the outer winds of the tornado, we noticed the day after. One person has a picture of the tornado thanks to the lightning.
I hope we have more storms to come. 2020 was a very boring year when it comes to big heavy thunderstorms. Only one close lightning, but mostly sunnny, sunny sunny and very dry. I hope 2021 become much better.
Excellent video in every way. I like the quality of the camera used the rainex you fellas used on the windshield unlike 70% of the chasers out there. It increased the quality of footage and safety tenfold. Also, wild footage. That definitely did not look safe at all. Sinister as hell.
I am guessing there is no time lapse in this video and that those clouds actually really are moving/bubbling up and morphing very quickly. I experienced my first wet microburst in Feb 2020, when the biggest most intense storm cell Perth, Aus had ever seen formed north of the city and proceeded to move directly north to south, smashing the entire city over the course of 45 minutes. Perth is only 20 miles wide (Coast on the west, scarp and hills to the east), but north to south it is contiguous development for close to 100 miles. This cell was pretty much as wide as the city, and got wider in its path south, but in doing so, lost its intensity, eventually breaking into a line of smaller N-S storm cells. It was a spectacular and intense 45 minutes, with more than a few microbursts produced. The core of one was about 2 miles from where I live. Scary stuff.
This just made my day
Wow, I literally envy you guys with your job! I am glad you get paid for this! Being am a weather enthusiast, I would be very fortunate to be able to perform these feats and tasks that you guys do. However, I do realize and understand that what you do can be and is very dangerous. But I still would love to be able to do this kind of work. Those clouds off in the distance at the beginning and towards the end when you were stopped looked awesome! I love seeing towering storm clouds such as those. Cumulonimbus clouds, along with the anvil shape on top, are my most favorite ones! Great video guys! Keep up the good work as you normally do!
kenpalmer1965 have you thought about being a storm spotter for your local NWS
I was with you until however. I personally wouldn't kept going further in even if by foot and try to carry a hail proof umbrellas at that point to experience the wet microburst. Always wanted to see more of that personally but weather in the UK is boring.
@@nevaehsmiracleconnieelliot2297 Yes, but I have no idea on how to pursue that opportunity. Must I attend some sort of school or university for this occupation? If so, is it very expensive and where is it? Thank you!
Love the very cool and beautiful rainbow 🤗
With 25+ years of being a skywarn spotter for the NWS, that is the most intense hail shaft that I've yet seen! Wise of you to exist that immediate vicinity. Only fools would have stayed there.
That is absolutely amazing!!!
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We had a wet microburst in oshawa, Ontario a few years back and man it was scary.
Me and my sis was on our balcony and suddenly this grey wall of DOOM comes towards us and we raced inside and shut the door and as soon as we did, there was five minutes of hail and wind and it was scary.
it killed the power, downed tree's, bent power poles/hydro poles, and left us wondering WTF hit us!?
Matt Brine BTW, that was in 2009. Some people like me at first thought it was a tornado. Last time I had something like that rip through oshawa was in the late 90's, a tail end of a hurricane. Scared the shit out of me as a kid
Amazing video!! Love your videos
The Quality on this is amazing. And this is in 2008.
Great rainbow! Christmas Eve driving in NC, calling for heavy rains, tornado I later learned. Rain had stopped 40 minutes before. Then suddenly, at night, we saw what looked like a tidal wave coming at up from above at about 45 degrees. Looked just like a huge wave. Was not a drop of rain before that thick mass of a wave advancing towards us. The closest thing I saw was like a video of a giant rain bomb video in Tulsa. It poured a while then gradually subsided. Contents of trunk were soaked. We were surprised car was not washed away. Any thoughts> (Could not see sky in distance as it was dark.) Thank you.
I Have lived in Michigan my whole life 10/01/60 I just started driving a truck all over the USA & I can tell you michigan storms are very mild compared to what happens in Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas,Missouri,Colorado,Iowa,Wyoming,Nebraska & even certain parts of Illinois. Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas you can see mega storms build up real fast & I mean fast.
It's too bad these guys couldn't find some type of shelter, parking garage, or any structure that would protect their car from hail damage. This would have been an awesome storm to capture on video. What's for damn sure is that storms like this don't hit the Chicagoland area, which is a bummer. This type of incredible storm makes the strongest storms that occur in Lake County, Indiana look sick.
Great video
Absolutely lovely!
that folks, is a storm losing it's updraft and puking it's guts out in the form of a dowmburst.
Get the hail outta there!
dude that was awesome!
nice. i loved the cloud structures.
@JerseyShore117 Yeah, although that wasn't dust... it was a dense precipitation core of large (>4-inch) hail and very heavy rain. If we had stayed at the location we were at, towards the end of the video, we probably would have taken some significant hail damage to the car.
Beautiful Storms!
Reed Timmer: (yelling) I'm driving through it...I'm driving through it!!!
wow, what a beautiful storm
That noise! That steady background howling noise.
Yep. After the May 1st storm, Jim and I headed back to OK City and met up with a bunch of other chasers and hung out for a few days while the pattern reset. We headed out to Amarillo on the 5th and then down to Lubbock on the 6th. Though they didn't produce any tornadoes, the Littlefield/Olton storms were incredible. That hail shaft/microburst feature was just unbelievable!
LP supercells do tend to have beautiful structure. Here in Montana they get some truly awesome pics of LP cells out on the plains.
I've been in a downburst for the first time in 2008, but also the last one till today but there are many other places in our country who got them as well, from supercells. Even in The Netherlands it's possible nowadays, even with very large hail.
Great video. Nice camera work.
DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKYY!!
@JerseyShore117 I included that tag because the footage was shot at 1080p and I wanted to ensure anyone interested in licensing it knew that it was available in that format... and, if someone searched using that criteria this clip would hopefully be returned somewhere in their results.
First video of storm chasers that actually seem cool to me.
a very betiful video
Freakin amazing video
Amazing, just Amazing!
Thank you so much, Marcel!
+Tropmet | Storm Chasing you guys are pros! Good job
Awesome cloud!!
apperently you have never been through a wet microburst. That thing they didnt know what it was was a microburst, and they can dump up to 2 inches of rain (or more) in a few minutes and have large hail. We get these types of storms in Arizona, mostly dry microbursts, but sometimes the wet type. They are created by extreme down drafts.
That curtain of hail reminds me of the videos of the thunderstorm (bearing low-level tornadoes) which hit New York City in Sept. 2010. Both storms moved amazingly fast, and (as you hear in this video) both looked very "ominous". The difference was that the New York storm moved over a city of millions of people, instead of being out on the plains like this one.
Sometimes I like to just shoot photography and video of the storm structure from a distance. I have always wanted to shoot an LP Supercell. Hopefully I'll get to the plains one day. Great stuff Mike. I watched all your fresh videos with a cup of coffee this morning. Get that DVD out before the tropics crank up this year.
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At 4:12 I think they are looking at a hail core. At the very least it was a serious down burst. That funky white color usually indicates hail but it really depends a lot on how the light is hitting it.
No microburst!?
wow !!!!!, Nice Quality!!!!!
This is probably what the tri state tornado looked like
That or the 2013 El Reno tornado; just a wall of destruction that's so big that it doesn't register as a tornado to the casual observer.
@@Orca19904 this is literally what made el reno and probably tri state such a dangerous event. Even some storm chasers didnt think it was on the ground in el renos case while in reality that sucker was fast, expanded fast, so fast as the storm was around 70mph. If i was in the situation i would probably be struck with amazement /fear/disbelief that a situation could rapidly intensify so quickly that id be dead.
How bad is it when a storm chaser says,"I don't know what the hell that is!"?
So none of these became tornadic? Because the first and last looked like they had quite a bit of rotation! Especially with that awesome looking overshooting updraft at 1:19! Good catch guys!
@minibikedod If the set-up is right, who knows, I might wind up in MI on one of my future chases!
I was hoping to see what things would look like once that wall of rain/hail hit, approaching so threateningly...and then the vehicle turns around and drives away.
Well, I can understand why - but I still wish the video had shown it.
A micro burst happened today 6/22in Tuscaloosa right where the tornado came through. I know because it picked the sand and dirt at the cedar crest area and it was intense, my truck ways swaying
Do you even know what Graupel is???? It's compacted balls of snow (in shape of cones or small balls) which btw falls in temps below 55 degrees and is much softer than traditional hail.
It's under microburst, because that's what they were taping towards the end and they moved out of the way to avoid getting blasted with larger hail.
I have done the same thing in Oklahoma. Hail like that would be a nasty situation, especially when the wind is giving it an extra boost of speed. I got hit by a couple of 2.5 inch hailstones, but they didn't break the glass, I turned around and got out of it. The storm was still growing and had not formed the anvil yet. It eventually would spawn a huge tornado, but the road I was on messed me up so I didn't get to see the tornado. I should have set up further east.
4:56: Double rainbow all the way!
gotta love some rain-x
Amazing Clouds Storm
One time this Summer, we were having some thunderstorms, and one of my dad's friends was over. And I was watching TV outside, I look outside and my dad and his friend are looking at something above our house. I go outside and ask what they were looking at.
I look up and see what looks like these clouds slowly forming towards the ground. Looking like a funnel clouds almost. But soon it went back up in the sky. +Tropet | Storm Chasing, what do you think it was?
DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!
U did good with that video!!i think that u should be a storm chaser.leave them a comment!!!
Strong Supercell
There's a rainbow
Charlie Vlogs I could see a tornado
DOUBLE RAINBOW + MICROBURST= AWESOME~
not to mention the INSANE wind
Aww double rainbow at 5:00 :,)
@Darkrai9547 A TRIPLE RAINBOW!! OOOO MMMMYYY GODDD ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
@Wobstormi Um... isn't that rule number 2 of storm chasing? 1. never chase at night. 2. never punch the core.
Rainbow. wow.
@krazedgunner Good grief, did the storms form a union and decide to do all their wind damage on the 22nd of each month this year?
1:31 who else saw the rainbow
@vmax135 Looks like that Rain-X is working for you! ;)
I live in Olton tx and that hail core was not fun to be in lol
I can imagine! We definitely didn't want to lose the windows in our car.
+Alpha16 i wish i could have been there
ShadowBeast1263 The area in a storm where hail is falling
Alpha16
What did the other Olson resident think about it?
Last one looked like a baby baby version of what tri state could of been.
Was 1:18 to 1:28 real time or time lapse? Unbelievable movement.
They were testing "HARRP"...
Would have been cool if you kept recording as you drove away. so much suspense, then no payoff for the viewer.
Sorry this time I just don't get the 78 dislikes What. Are you really expecting or wanting!!
Am i crazy or the ground was raining? LOL
Ur probs crazy
i was in a microburst it was like katrina over my house and it was the worst storm i had ever seen and rated worst storm for new jersey
5:00 rainbow intensifies
0:02 beautiful cumulonimbus cloud
@RobloxTitanicMovie IT'S A FULL ON RAINBOW MAN
HARMLESS RAIN
I see you use Rain-X. Smart move.
that looked like rain wrapped tornado
MEGABURST;D
Microburst clouds move really fast. I know because we had a Microburst before and I saw how fast it was moving. It blew out trampoline into the pool right when my mom said please don't flip it into the pool, it did, then it blew over our hudge tree in the back of the wall!
chickened out?
No they were taking the safe option rather than merely hoping it didn't contain destructive hail or tornado-force wind (as some microbursts do - wet ones seem to be particularly intense).
Quick stupid rhetorical question, is there even such a thing as a dry microburst? :-)
ProAntiCrazyPeople there are dry downbursts, which is essentially the same thing
It's obviously wet
What is a microburst
Shit! There was a Tornado in it! It was much more than a Micro Burst!
4:58 look a rainbow
4/9/2021
Ike returns!!!!!!!!!
The hottest temperature ever recorded is 58 degrees, and you are talking about 55 and snow. Make sense much?
This sort of thing doesn't happen in Northwest Indiana. Not in Lake County anyway.
welcome to texas
@ChrisSmiley22 It means the storm has a sense of humor. It shows you rainbows after destroying your city.
5:00 OMG DOUBLE RAINBOWWWWWWW WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDDDDDDDD OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMMMMMM OHHHHHHHHHHH
bicromurst!!!!
Aaron Goodman microbirst
->bikromirst
lol
불명의미 ?? Microburst
Where was this microburst? Title doesn't accurately describe the video.
The wet microburst is the dense hail/precipitation core that is seen moving rapidly northward across the town between 4:03 and 5:00, towards the end of this clip. That core produced hail up to 4-inches in diameter and winds in excess of 60mph within Olton.
It was the rapidly moving wall of rain towards the end