Inland Hurricane derecho So Illinois May 8, 2009

[guitarest452452]

I remember this!

[AlPalC]

I was in a derecho on June first 2010.

[zanmanzander]

at 7:52

[jh4dc5s]

weather mod

[StLouisStormSpotter]

@jh4dc5s Oh my god, it's not weather modification. I am so sick and tired of someone always saying it's weather modification for every weather video.

[jh4dc5s]

@StLouisStormSpotter How do you explain the stationary clouds @ 7:52 ?

I'm a 29 year old Engineer BTW. I know how they can do this stuff.

[StLouisStormSpotter]

@jh4dc5s Haha stationary? Click 7:57 then 8:12, you can see how they move. Debunked, I win.

[jh4dc5s]

@StLouisStormSpotter They are still moving too slow for the amount of wind flow in the area.

[StLouisStormSpotter]

@jh4dc5s Umm not really. By that point, he was probably on the back side of the storm in which the clouds aren't always moving with the wind. If the wind is at 70-80 mph, clouds towards the back won't move that fast.

[jh4dc5s]

@StLouisStormSpotter I see your point. But this does not look like a regular Mesocyclone with the conditions you are describing.

[StLouisStormSpotter]

@jh4dc5s Also, when you're farther away from the clouds, it has that effect.

[jh4dc5s]

@StLouisStormSpotter You do know I sub you right, lol.. You got some good footage yourself, keep em coming.

I will admit i do not know 100% if this is weather mod, If i had a satellite view i could tell you.

[guitarest452452]

@jh4dc5s Yeah man I remember this.... I chased this storm lol....

But then it began to chase me :x

[jh4dc5s]

waw

[MISTER7KIMBEL]

Lol, we have one of that every month in the winter in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, maybe stronger than that, but only on the winter because of the Antartical winds with a velocity of 74 miles or more and temperatures of -5. Yes, South of Brazil is cold. and snows there. A little bit of informations to you.

[fuku654]

I was outside in it standing on the side of the house that wasn't getting wind(which was the east side of the house)in JC.I left towards marion got stuck on 51, realizing how bad it was when everyone was getting out of their cars and walking around,it got worse when I realized that the gas pumps weren't working when I finally reached Marion.

[nit0134]

Lol May 8 is my birthday^.^

[SwordInThroat]

The fact that it lasted that long just BLOWS MY MIND!

[Hbdach]

I had graduation the next day there, in the morning, on the football field, in the rain, the microphones working/not working on power generators...

[rocker4u123]

i was near cape gir. when that happened. in the area that got the hardest (in that whole area, i never saw IL), local video's captured whole barns blowin away.

[Apolyion]

I read a derecho can move over ground at speeds in excess of 70 mph, can be as wide as 250 miles across, and as long as 800 miles with sustained winds of 130 mph. Talk about a pucker factor of 10!

[NecKClippA]

felt sorry for the guy in front with NO FUCKING ROOF ON HIS CAR!

[Keeganator12]

omg at 7:45 do u c the Scary face in the sky to the right.

[DivinityzBeAsT]

@Keeganator12 Nature has a face

[73bubbie]

@Keeganator12 I see it! over to the right middle of the screen.

[Keeganator12]

@73bubbie ikr!

[ChaseThatTornado67]

brooklyn had this yesterday. they got a taste of nebraska and the mid west and florida in new york!

[bg147]

Crazy, I was at Harbaugh's, and a tree on The Interfaith Center's property fell on my car... I only had liability coverage, it was totaled, ugh. Anyways, the man "bum" who ran the Center did everything he could to deny any responsibility. I sent photos of the tree to the Center's insurance company, the tree was rotten inside. They did nothing... which I expected and they must have told the guy at the Interfaith Center to remove the evidence because the rotten tree trunk was gone the next day.

[ChaseThatTornado67]

IT IS LIKE A HURRICANE! shit those were 110 mph winds

[Brendrumer]

illinois is never lucky lol

[carbonunit]

Thats called a Derecho, one hit here in St Louis in 2006 and left 2 million without power, sustained winds over 100mph

[edwardlovers12345]

I live in Southern Illinois and I was in school the day it hit and where my friends and I were sitting the wall started to leak......we had to move into a room by ourselves....when it was finally over we walkesd outside and the metal basketball hoop was torn out of the ground, electricity lines were everywhere, a HUGE tree was knocked over onto about 5 cars (my moms was one of them), and bricks had fallen from the building across the street onto our student teachers car.....it was BAD!!!!!

[STUNTINrockstar]

Omg i rememberthis i was at steak and shake eating my burger then it hit!

[gt3corn]

We got one of these last year. lol they happen every year here.

[schubeg41]

This was not your standard derecho. According to the NWS, "most meteorologists will only see a derecho like this once in their career".

[direwolfen82]

This was wild. I live in a hundred year old house and was sure it was gonna go down. We didnt lose but a few shingles though. All the damn trees came down on the shed and I couldnt get to the CHAINSAW!

[dotlee12]

I drove in this thing but I live in saline county... we was hit hard but not nearly as hard as some places

[SonicGeneration]

I wanna be in it

[izlude2]

@SonicGeneration i'd love to move inland and experience this. sure i may die, but sure beats the calm life here in california... it's soooooooo boring here! do ya folks over there take pride in enduring these big storms? i need some excitement and experience!!!!

[PerVersionOFaTruth01]

I was in the same storm in SE Missouri and I have a video of some of the damage on my channel if you want to see it.

[hebneh]

A good reason to NOT park next to, or under, a tree at a time like that - even if it might initially seem like it might provide some protection from the wind.

Wise not to try to drive in most of that. Notice how, at some points, the wind-driven rain completely obscures the tail lights of the vehicle in front, meaning you could practically be on the darn thing in a moving car and not be able to see it.

[wj74]

it wasn't a 'great sense of feeling' going without power for a week and a half

[TriaMaxwell]

@wj74 We were without for five days. I could handle the darkness, it was the lack of hot water that pissed me off.

[dqndn19]

Some may have caught the weather the night before this when it was in a bow shape headin our way and when mornin came in was just ugly on radar. I had finals and I just got to class before it started to pour. After class I said f it im driving home. I got to 148 and you could see the storm rotating over Rend Lake, insane. I got to sesser just as it was hitting it, bad timing i know but it was worth it lol. Great sense of feeling seeing mother nature unleash some power. Thanks for the clip.

[trailboyus66]

I was traveling US hiway 60 West bound early that morning. I called 911 around 9:15Am I was between Mountain Grove and Norwood Missouri.

The sky had been a greenish fog from Sunrise. We had allot of damage in Licking Missouri.

The wind shifted to the North and picked up my wipers several times.

The Licking P.D. has video but does not want to release it. Mike the officer who got caught in it told me it pushed his patrol car. The center of the storm passed over Licking.

[MistyLuvsKendall9]

It was freaken crazy that day I was in West Frankfort IL, my god I hope nothing like this happends again!

[beckasha83]

I am originally from Johnston City, but I lived in Carbondale not long ago, and now I live in brookport. Before I went to pick my nephew up, I was watching Chan. 3-- and the signal from them stopped as that monster was approaching, and as I was picking up my nephew, my best friend barraged me with texts about something like a tornado... I had to scramble and find out what happened. Truly amazing footage.. thank you for putting it up.

[standxdown]

I slept through the actual storm but the aftermath told me that this shit was pretty crazy.

[1974rjb]

Amazing event. Imagine what the damage could have been if the crops were grown...they would have been flattened.

[Charmander632]

Wow! You know what they say! When 1 major tragedy happens, another happens at a different place, same day!

My computer got stolen at the same day!

[trumpicana]

Yeah man, good video...anyone stand out inside the storm?

[tmoney751]

fuck yea i did it was crazy as all hell

[NoOtherLikeMe7]

That's my birthday!

[Terrence890]

I was in a Derecho in Memphis, Tennessee, and it was scary ass hell. the whole city was out of power for about 2 weeks.

[loveisdamovement2012]

Nice vid. I was at school( Johnston City High School.) scariest storm ive ever seen

[jonhut111]

I was at Herrin High School!

[jtrude24]

I was at Carbondale High School. I was in a stairway totally quarantined from what was happening. But you could hear it, it was creepy.

[SurrenderDorothy314]

Thanks for posting. Nice video! Our band came down from St. Louis that day, and was scheduled to play outdoors at Sidetracks that night. Needless to say, we never unloaded our equipment. The power behind this storm was incredible. We'll be back there Sept. 11th & 12th. Bring some friends!

[annakoschka]

Derecho is a ridiculously weak term to use for such a highly organized system. If it had formed over water it could've classified as a Category 2 hurricane. There's no harm in letting people call it an "inland hurricane" since technically that's not misusing a current existing term, and after all, this is only the second time there's been such a freakishly well developed system with an "eye" that started over land. "Inland Hurricane" may be added to weather vocab at some point, who's to say.

[byrdquest1]

Actually it was not an MCS. It was an MCV. Mesoscale convective Vortex. On radar it did resemble a Hurricane or any type of low pressure system.

[PositivelyBored]

I think you are wrong her e- it was a MCS, which happened to have mesoscale convective vorticity, therefore was a MCV as well. It is a MCS that exhibited the voriticity that you can label it a MCV.

[w9gar]

I was in the truck that passed you 5min and 15 sec into the video. Good video and thanks for posting. Your video shows it all. w9gar

[uselessnfo]

That may be its technical term, but it definatly was built like a hurricane. I was in st. louis, feeling the "outer bands" kinda thing of it..

That is the most bizzare storm I have evern seen.

[StormChaseGroup]

I was out chasing an embedded tornado before the wind hit. I got the video on my channel but its a bit poor quality because I took it via-blackberry.

[tumblindrums10]

i was at school in marion when school happened and when we got out of school we knew it was bad, but it looked like a warzone when we went into town.

[LITTLEMONSTERSDAD]

my grandfather was killed in this this storm the damage was beyond belief i could not comprehend the damage after i got back down there after my flight from chicago it was chaos everywhere i looked i cant imagine what it was like during the event

[Seriousman23]

Almost got hit twice by trees and was in my little wrangler whenever it hit. The thing was up on two wheels when it cam through. Scary stuff.

[ExtremeChasingFury]

I caught this derecho in its earlier stages while it was leaving extreme southeast kansas into Southwest missouri. Great video. Winds at the time that I seen this in my area was anywhere from 80 to 110mph. Intense!

[lttlemissred]

I am from Murphysboro, and I have never been so scared in my life when three trees came crashing down all around my house!

[pericolace]

I was in Salem, MO (Dent County), on friday May 8th, when this storm ripped through town. I grew up in NJ, and this is the first time I have ever seen anything like this. I was absolutely terrified. We were all huddled inside of the local Walmart, after the Civil Defense sirens went off....managgers yelled 'GET DOWN!'. I thought the front windows would explode. Never so scared in all my life.

[GotDots]

yea, i live in harrisburg, it was horrible! we didnt know what was happening, and a hurricane? its weird but true....alot of damage, people have been working together and we are making a fast recovery, thank god

[nadokid1]

good greaf! was there a warning for this?

[debmo79]

Its crazy to watch. The radio in the background with the calls for help made it more intense. Which road were you on in this video?

[Kaymaddie25]

Ugh - that reminds me too much of Katrina! Watching that sort of weather out the back window of your home is just as scary!!!!

[ebarnes419]

great footage. I live in marion and this storm was the wildest shit i have ever seen. Was in my car two years ago in mt vernon when a simular storm hit but not as bad as the one we got in wiliamson co.

[gogoriotgirl1976]

I Live In Carterville,IL. And That Was One Of The Craziest Things I Have Ever Seen!!

[allyroo85]

This was intense, I was in a sturdy apartment building during all of this, but I felt the pressure drop in my ears at one point and it really scared me! I would have been in the basement, but we didn't have one! Thank god for all the hard working people in SO ILL, and those that came from far and wide!!

[rwamike420]

my daughter was in carbondale with her u of i rugby team. she called to say she was trapped , i said said yea right, trapped at the biggest party school in the state,(maybe the country) and she's trapped there on the last weekend of the school year. yea right, LOL after they lost power, they had no info, so I had a lot of fun with it---yea, they were already SAFE!!! before i started messing with her!!!

[flutesnoot1]

i went to school in carbondale and i grew up 20 miles from champaign and the parties ive been to in champaign made carbondale halloween look tame, burning couches tossed out of apartments on green street

[beeohhski]

woot we always burn a couch at parties and see who gets off it last and the winner got the couch (i know pointless) but fun as hell

[ATLionBK]

Fuck tha police!

[chirogirl67550]

Thank God you didn't get hurt!!! My mother had the same experience as you did....

Yvonne,Bob and Kazandra

Ava,Illinois

[CustomVideoProductio]

My squad got smacked by a portable storage building in Marion. I didn't have in-car video but sure wish I would have. This was one for the books. Nice footage!

[jmarkg932200]

radar showed an eye like a hurricance. i think this type of storm could call for a new type of weather warning maybe?

[twohlrab3]

Nice video. This truly shows the intensity of the wind. I have a similar video posted with a tree falling on our house and a car in our driveway.

[ObeyBrandon]

your a police officer! haha i didnt bring a jacket! hope everything was ok

[MIDSCAR1]

You a storm chaser or just an unlucky person to get caught in the middle of it? As a storm chaser myself...I wished I was down there for that! That looked freaking INTENSE!

[schubeg41]

Yes I am a storm chaser. There were tornadoes in the area but I didn't expect this!

[stuhrenberg]

Was this Hwy 51?

[schubeg41]

This was on Rt 149 between Hurst and Royalton.

[monstercrawler1]

I think we should call it a: Mesocane.

[alfe2003]

Holy shit