Deadly Lightning Near Miss - Twin Cities, MN 10-05-07

[NiteOwl1224]

Since it's deadly, did it kill someone?

[torn80s]

I see your camcorder get's the same reflection of the lense surroundings as mine does. That bolt that hits on the treeline is the real bolt. Then you see a second image of it which appears to be right in front of your face. That second image you see is a actually a reflection of the real lightning bolt. I don't know if there's a way to stop this from happening, because this reflection deal has messed up some really good lightning video stills I wanted to keep. That was still close though. Nice!!

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

@torn80s Shoot in P mode. 24 or 30

[DiscreetDropkick]

Im gonna major in Geo sciences/Atmosphere meteorology. Want to start out as a storm chaser and get footage of shit like this. To me, one of the most badass jobs on the planet, Luckily i live right in tornado alley :)

[stormspinner1]

DAYUM! Awesome lightning! I'd be nervous, too ... lightning my favorite element of Storm, but nothin' to mess with. 5/5 stars. (love the noise at the end)

[autisticotakugirl]

Really, what is that weird sound at the very end?

[ubernate860]

was that a burp at like 1:30?? lol

[Tommy3stars]

if it wants to get to u it will get to u......that one strike at 1:09 was all over that place ...looked very close!....saw a great storm last tues with a f-0 tornado here in NE Tennessee.....not much damage..but insane c/g lightning...great footage!

[Anebelle930]

IM REALLY REALLY SCARED!! THERE ARE TORNADO WARNINGS NEAR US!!! ALSO!! Nice vid dude!! Love the thunder and lightning

[fraranuc]

lol man NICE THUNDER :x

[Murphoftheturf]

Fuckin' thunderstorm. We have 'em here too.

[SevereTstormFan]

Awesome thunder

[irvinfrei]

if you pause at 1:11 it looks like a skull to the right

[samluvzcc]

it really does! CREEPY!!! : /

[JCRailAirProduction]

awesome

[blinkingblythe]

The window is no protection either, lighting has been known to go right through the glass.

[Celtisback]

What is a step leader?

[timreap]

It's a path of ionized air which extends downward from a thundercloud during the initial stages of atmospheric breakdown during a lightning strike. Often, there are multiple, branching stepped leaders. As the step leaders form, these branches of ionized air form in a stepwise fashion, followed by a short period of inactivity, until the final step leader reaches the ground, then a streamer is launched from the closest tall objects and when it connects with a stepped leader BOOM Lightning strikes.

[Celtisback]

I could have picked that out of wikipedia aswell :p

[boomaticaboom]

Pretty:)

[UncleGrizzo]

Thanks.

[matysek123456]

That wasn't step leader or positive streamer ... this was ghost lightning, a reflections of a strike on your camera lens ... streamers are at tall places like chimneys, trees, etc. and they are looking for stepped leaders to connect to.

[UncleGrizzo]

Tall places, like me standing outside with nothing else taller around.

[matysek123456]

Well, that's maybe true :) ... but streamers are not going from camera ...

[weeardguy]

@matysek123456 I'm not too sure about this one: if you pause it at the right moments, you will see the main bolt that indeed is 'ghosted' a few times. BUT.... to the right of it, you see a bolt that looks like a ghostbolt, but doesn't look like the actual strike a bit to the left, and also doesn't appear to 'roll' down the screen, as most ghostbolts do. Leaders can come from any point, and don't have to originate from tall object (ofcourse, the chance they do, are higher)

[snikliw87]

what's a step leader?

[chaserchick87]

awesome...:)

[momotous]

I just love being in the strike zone!

[CupOT1]

Holy crap! That is some of the coolest lightning I've seen in a long time. Pause it at 1:10 and you can totally see the step-leader leave his camera and luckily not make contact. Dude, you woulda been dead for sure!

Nice video bro!