lightning_blows_transformer_tulsa_05-22-1999_slomo_MPEG1

[tvfan103]

hope Ponyboy and Johnny were inside when this happened!

[cape6000jkg]

The green flash was the result of an overheated wire that conducted the lightning surge from some distance away, burning insulation and causing a short circuit. That green flash was the a.c. arc from the short circuit burning the copper wire. Copper burns green like that. The white flash at the point of the lightning contact was probably a burning aluminum wire.

[chavez2d]

looks like zues threw his lightning quick as hell. cause damn that was fast strike.

[lonewolfintj]

Do you know for sure a transformer was hit? From the vantage point of the camera, I can't see what was hit, because the strike point was behind obstructions. I do see a blue flash. That might be an electric arc. Or, it could be ball lightning. I've seen 1 other video on YouTube that looked like actual ball lightning, which is one of the most illusive of all physical phenomena. More likely, though, it's an electric line or transformer arcing, as you say.

[shaunh88]

Yey god is upgrading our technoligy ( yes i carnt spell no big supprisez there and yesz i did putz those z on purpose)

[ExclRocks50]

which one blew up? optomise prime or megatron? lol

[enigma800]

I'm so damn tired of people saying fake this, and fake that. You're brains are FAKE, what do you think of that?  Oh, that's right, you can't. That's a real friggin lightning strike, folks!

[hitsugaya027]

how did you know that the lightning will hit that!? Sorry for Bad English!!

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

dont listen to the "know it alls" either way that is a bad ass lightning shot and a good explosion. i like taping storms too and i have yet to get a close strike. i got some close ones but not super duper close like i want to get. cool video 5 stars

[BruceBoppoTiemann]

Google unfortunately put an ad up on the bottom of the viewer screen, which couldn't be closed. It blocked the interesting part. :(

[yuriiO16]

@BruceBoppoTiemann Then click the add away with the cross. and press play again lmao

[79Yamato]

Damnit... Lightning out of the blue. Scary

[6V92TA]

lol at 0:30

[someone7272]

WOW! You are so lucky to get that on film!

[form109]

Lightning Strikes at 0:17....Surge Blows the Transformer at 0:18.

[XyleJKH]

hmm... lightning arresters must have failed

[shadowray95]

wow why is it always clourful!?

[hugestomper]

that´s because when the air is charged it forms plasma, it´s like neon tubes

[mandycool24]

WOW AND RIGHT ON MY B-DAY

[garabella815]

i seen one blow up befor i was so scard

i almost peed my pants

[BryanBeatsYouAll]

zoomed in right before it hit, as if you knew that it was going to happen...seems suspicious.

BURN THE WITCH

[pimpinniki420420]

haha, that's what I thought

[Kamdrimar]

@BryanBeatsYouAll

He zoomed in on the best patch of exposed sky during a thunderstorm in the hopes of catching a lightning bolt on film? No one ever does this! FAKE!

[Ram123Ram112233]

wow

[DeliquescingRayne]

I believe this video is fake or your information is false. You see, the sound was too late. most people get used to thunder coming a few seconds after lighting. The speed of sound is 340 meters per second. My stopwatch counted 3.32 seconds on your video. From the time the lighting struck to the sound. That means the strike was 1129 meters away. So you mean to tell me you were 3/4 of a mile from this, yet you got that clear of a shot? Is this a Super duper zoom camera?

[DeliquescingRayne]

wait, since when does a block = almost a mile?

[DeliquescingRayne]

I'll believe it, if you actually told me it was more than a block away, but there are so many hoaxes on here, that judging off you saying it was a block from ur back door, i cant believe the video.

[Fenfir51]

u r totally right i had a thunder storm close o my home and i saw the lightning and the as fast as i saw the lightning the sound and on thi video the light comes first and you can see its close buy and the sound its toooooo lateeee!!!!!

[Arkthurius]

i am not either saying it is real or not, have you taken into account wind direction, wind speed, air density and humidity?,

i think some of those things might affect the sound thing...

[Corona688]

The lightning bolt could've been much farther away than the transformer, all it needs to do is hit a wire leading to it...

[marthmeat]

@DeliquescingRayne I may have misjudged the distance. I was working 3rd shift that year, and as a way to help me sleep in the daytime, I shot every thunderstorm that came through Tulsa in 1999 so i could play the storms back while i went to sleep. This is 30 seconds of about 30 hours of footage. Not fake, just coincidence. Had no idea lightning snobs were so contentious lol =)

[gui577b]

@DeliquescingRayne The speed of sound is 340 meters per second at sea level, in dry air, at 20 °C under ideal conditions. Even if you ignore the huge amount of ground clutter it's perfectly reasonable to assume that the humid, warm air delayed the thunder clap a little.

[Septhin]

@DeliquescingRayne It's funny how you actually take your time to prove it's fake or information fail. Pretty waste of time really.. But hey, I guess I'm wasting my time to writing this comment..

[vk3hau]

@DeliquescingRayne you need to check your stop watch dude, try 1.62 seconds from stike to clap not 3.32.

[vk3hau]

@DeliquescingRayne you need to check your Stop Watch, I have 1.62 Seconds on mine, not 3.32 seconds, and that put the stike 550 meters away.

[warfreak1111]

@DeliquescingRayne Get a life

[beaman220]

And that's why don't talk on your corded phone during a lightning storm.

[54spiritedwill54]

I would've dropped the camera. lol

[blinko656]

It's amazing you got the shot. I had one blow just above my head in 86 I thought i was dead.

[nineaclock]

That looks like a Lighting arrestor that blew.

Where did this take place in tulsa?

[certifiedfresh]

damn terrorists

[1petealmquist1]

Do not be rude cettifiedfresh.

[Gamerkiller77]

u from oklahoma? rock on!

[Arkthurius]

Cool video, but it does not look like an explosion to me, I can see the lighting, then the lighting charge running all the way the line until the transformer, and very likily sending the current to earth. Probably light on the transformer could be due to the arcs of such a lighting voltage. Had the tranformer exploded the oil would have ignited and we'd have flames and lots of smoke. The transformers light could be the fuses melting.

[Arkthurius]

The things that exploded, at least in this clip, are the transformers ray protectors, (i dont know they correct name in english), but they are the porcelain curved cilinders found before the transformers disconnecting means. These porcelain protectors isolate high voltage from ground under normal operation, but during a lighting, the transient voltage is high enough to break them, and they have zink inside them to conduct, so the line is able to send most of the lighting discharge to earth.

[nineaclock]

Good old Tulsa Oklahoma I live there nice video

[Derykey]

nice viedo

[leeharveysalem]

why were you video taping in the first place?

[1skeletoncrew]

Whats w/the kleets on the pole next to you....They attract lightning also...stay away from poles and trees during a storm..especialy the outer edge of the clouds...

[hashfromjc]

lightning struck a power line that was 30 feet away from me in mexico 3 years ago. fcking sounded like a bomb going off.

[deaztrailnutz]

Lightning struck a power line that was less than 200 feet from me several years back. I have NEVER been that scared.

[xalteridemx]

Man, I would've dropped the camera. Good work.