Hail / Wet Microburst - Olton, TX - May 6, 2008

[MrNeonmonkey12]

so amazing its moving soooo fast!...DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!

[MrSveners]

sweet

[JerseyShore117]

Why is one of your tags 1080p?/

[vmax135]

@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.

[JerseyShore117]

@vmax135 Oh okay good idea. And that wall of dust was coming right at you guys!

[vmax135]

@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.

[JerseyShore117]

@vmax135 Oh wow

[RobloxTitanicMovie]

4:56 DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!! SO BRIGHT SO VIVID

[Rcrby525]

@RobloxTitanicMovie IT'S A FULL ON RAINBOW MAN

[AtarahDerek]

LP supercells do tend to have beautiful structure. Here in Montana they get some truly awesome pics of LP cells out on the plains.

[chimoy1]

1:20 who? WHAT? where im i? huh? is this heaven? GOD is that you???

[whatz123451]

This is a awsome storm, Kinda reminded me of the storm we had in winthrop harbor Illionois Omg i was babysitting a 3 year old when all of a sudden my mom called screaming GET IN THE BASMENT RIGHT NOW A TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN NEAR YOU GUYS so i ran in the basment with meg the 3 year old with her tom and jerry little TVand we waiting the clouds where black after 15 minutes my mom told us to go back upstairs the storm was gone but nearby a tree was nocked over everything was in ruins i wasluck

[thefirechaser24]

4:21 thats intimidating... imagine if your house was right next to it and your looking out the window at it 0.o

[thefirechaser24]

Nice Vid. If you could do a time lapse that be awesome!

[clonewar7]

Strong Supercell

[krazedgunner]

Last one looked like a baby baby version of what tri state could of been.

[krazedgunner]

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

[AtarahDerek]

@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?

[chemicalwarfare224]

0:02 beautiful cumulonimbus cloud

[laura20022004]

Freakin amazing video

[Darkrai9547]

4:57 OMG! A DOUBLE RAINBOW! ;D

[XA7XX7AX]

@Darkrai9547 A TRIPLE RAINBOW!! OOOO MMMMYYY GODDD ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

[Darkrai9547]

@XA7XX7AX

ITS SO INTENSE!!!! TELL ME TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS!!!!

[PIEequatesAWSOMENESS]

4:56: Double rainbow all the way!

[LDKBBAB]

"storm chaser"??? yea right... more like storm watchers from a safe distance

[809380]

ATTENTION, ""MAYBE"" THERE IS AN UFO AT 3 mn and 37 sec. THIS UFO IS PASSING VERY QUICKLY. HAVE NICE FLASHES OF LIGHTNING , REGARDS, DANIEL

[XA7XX7AX]

@809380 what the fuck kind of crack are you smoking?!?

[ilovejustinbieber980]

who noticed the rainbow @ 1:30 lmao :P

[drdoom554]

oh my. iv never seen a tilted meso. i didnt think it was possible for that or even the ffdd

[6Seraph6]

1:45 It looks like the rain is going upwards.

[MrPoliticallyIncrct]

At 4:20 massive hail shaft, probably baseball to softball sized!

[mattxr2i]

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!

[ChrisSmiley22]

5:00 OMG DOUBLE RAINBOWWWWWWW WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDDDDDDDD OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMMMMMM OHHHHHHHHHHH

[mattxr2i]

@ChrisSmiley22 It means the storm has a sense of humor. It shows you rainbows after destroying your city.

[LysosTarcho]

Amazing Clouds Storm

[minibikedod]

you should come storm chase in MI we got some pretty wicked storms

[vmax135]

@minibikedod If the set-up is right, who knows, I might wind up in MI on one of my future chases!

[StormsOfBlackHoles]

@vmax135 I so want it to be tornado season already :( tornadoes occur mostly in April, May, and June right? If so i am so ready

[coacht93]

@vmax135 Looks like that Rain-X is working for you! ;)

[dumbpoo112]

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

[Silverhedgehog1000]

What is a microburst

[FinalSmashBrother]

I see a head @ 2:53 to the right. Looks like he's looking up, or laying down.

I see a cloud @ 3:03 (lol)

4:04 O.O

5:00 were is the butterflies, and the blue skies.

[jackass5566]

Perfect cumulonimbus and Anvil!!!!

[weres8131]

We experience that storm in New York City on September 16, 2010

[hebneh]

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.

[ptakja1]

Great video. Nice camera work.

[dawitekid20]

DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!

[Why416]

That is absolutely amazing!!!

[MartinNFLFalcon]

Thats what I'd like to call balls.

[miniiceman1212]

wow !!!!!, Nice Quality!!!!!

[HowsaBowsaYowsa]

Thanks for the video.

[ChaseThatTornado67]

dude that was awesome!

[joetastic08]

Storms are so powerful, and absolutely gorgeous. God truly is an artist.

[tetra021]

Gotta love rain-ex!

Great vid

[Greddy305]

That is insane! 4:04

[ProfessorIgor]

that folks, is a storm losing it's updraft and puking it's guts out in the form of a dowmburst.

[ExtremeSpinner99]

Very nice and interesting supercell with this downburst and  amazing rainbow at the end.

[patje7]

Wow you has to be film it when it come over you :o

Very impressive movie. Thanks for sharing.

[Torn80cj]

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.

[skateboy159]

u can see it rotating 2:16-2:30

[Wobstormi]

I Think it´s not healthy to drive into the hail core of a LP-Supercell ;)

Hail can grow up to 15cm size in a LP-Supercell ;)

[mattxr2i]

@Wobstormi Um... isn't that rule number 2 of storm chasing? 1. never chase at night. 2. never punch the core.

[DEMIFAN01]

my dad was in that storm he went in to hiding a minet before it went over the celler he was taking pic and vids he is crazy !

[tedFrost]

You should have driven into the hail core near the end.

[aurora990]

it looks tempting to get into the hail core. however, it is not worth the risk of vehicle damage from hail ranging from the size of quarters to the size of a softball from a rotating thunderstorm. a good storm chaser never goes into the hail core intentionally.

[Jamiesyme999]

wow, what a beautiful storm

[VirtuaCory]

OMG...I would love to ride along with stormchasers and circle a supercell like that.

(face drooling)

[Stormyday2006]

Beautiful Storms!

[stormchasingmikey]

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.

SCM

[SupercellNathan]

Wow! This must of been the storm you got on next after you left Southeast Kansas days after with the Supercell that we where all looking at around the Independence, KS, and Fredonia, KS area on May 1, 2008.

What a hail shaft! I would be turning around myself. You could see it coming right at you.

[vmax135]

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!