Violent Thunderstorm on Miami Beach - 80mph wind gusts - June 5, 2009

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[LazerXX2234]

Dam u sure tht wasn't a hurricane lol was very close with wind like tht good lord lmao

[40030792]

Nice filming! I would of loved to have seen that for real!!

[UltimateOwnz]

Sexy VW Golf 3 there.

[UltimateOwnz]

I love thunderstorms.

[Ezdduf4kuZ]

This isn't Calgary Alberta and it certainly isn't Vancouver Canada....the wind yes!!, but not the Thunder, Lightning, Tornado and Hailstones. (Ho Ho Ho)

[maglouc]

also it reminds me of the time of this storm and it wuz like a hurricane

[maglouc]

there wuz a storm in encinitas california witch is where i live and there wuz a violent THUNDERSTORM

[123456RaulMorales]

WARNING:This subject matter is not suitable for brontophobics(The real name for the ones who are scared shitless towards thunderstorms)!!

[UncleSlim64]

@123456RaulMorales And also astraphobics (those with a fear of lightning).

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 BIG DEAL!!

[UncleSlim64]

@123456RaulMorales Just thought I would include it.

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 Yes,sir,it can be included,sir.....OBVIOUSLY.

[UncleSlim64]

@123456RaulMorales Get off your high horse you pompous prick. What the f***'s your problem?

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 Pompous Prick is your mama,pendejo(asshole)!!Let's fght 'till the end,cabron(bitch)!!

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 Shut the fuck up,jodio cabron(you fucking bitch)You messed with me,and I will fight back until the end,cabron(bitch)!!

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 And I don't need to be called a pompous prick because you don't know any fucking shit about me,pendejo(asshole),cabron(bit­ch)!!Hijo de la gran puta,maricon(SOB.Faggot)!!

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 LET'S FIGHT UNTIL THE END,CABRON(BITCH)!!!!HUELEBICH­O(COCKSUCKER)!!JODIO INUTIL,PERDEDOR ASQUEROSO(USELESS,FUCKING FILTHY LOSER)!!

[UncleSlim64]

@123456RaulMorales Sorry. I only speak English

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 I speak both English and Spanish,And more of 101 languages.

[123456RaulMorales]

@UncleSlim64 Speak for yourself,you pompous prick,cabron(bitch)!pendejo(di­ckwad)!!!

[WavyGravyTrain1]

My friend lives in Orlando and he says these storms happen alot with violent lightning and flash flooding. The weather conditions there are a perfect recipe for storms like this.

[cierzo36]

that kind of storm looks like a hurricane

[FLguyGB]

He kinda sounds like the honey badger guy.

[StefkeBIA]

Pause at 0:21 .. Crazy! And that was nice video, thank you for this. :)

[lindenly22]

This is what you get when you get 5,000 joules of kilogram of positive convective available potential energy...this!!!!!!!

[nanlisa]

I did hear that thunder at 21, and believe me, it's sounds just like an explosion. I would have been scared to death.

[nanlisa]

Cougar338: I know what you mean. Don't take this personally, but I would never ever want to live in Florida. I don't think I could take this all year long. I've had a fear of thunderstorms ever since I was a kid and I would be scared stiff.

I am staying put right here in Pennsylvania, where I born and raised. I'd rather have the change of seasons than thunderstorms all year long.

[skylilly1]

Florida storms are scary as hell, the lightening is so bad, that's why I moved...

[CallieAlways2010]

now that's a storm. cool!

[story762]

In the prairies people don't look twice at weather like this :P

in California they might think this was the end of the world

[skunk96]

this is what i need here in Los Angeles, action!

[Superarragon5]

Oops... I'm gonna get flooded! I'm just gonna stay in my house and play my pc for a few hours until it blows over. Please pray for me that no trees fall on my house please?

[Superarragon5]

Or lots of fallen trees?

[Superarragon5]

I'm getting hit by hurricane Irene with winds like this... Is there any uprooted trees or fa

[TheKumquat8]

same here were getting hit by irene and the winds were i am r up to 80mph at least im not nc were they gotta evacuate cause of 120mph winds @Superarragon5

[BELAIRCHARGERHEMI]

Did you ever lose electricity?

[mckeiyane123]

poor hobos

on the streets

[JDdaDJstressed]

Nothing like a bit of hardcore weather.

All the weather in the UK is boring. No wonder our ancestors flocked to the US

[mark40511]

Those isolated pop up storms like that can be CRAZY

[19928710]

Esta tormenta da miedo.

[kkloomis]

how much people passed away/died

[StormChaserMax]

@kkloomis No one died. I think there was a lightning injury, but I'm not sure. The storm was very localized and only affected a small area.

[longbeach225]

@StormChaserMax Was your house flooded? Florida I call that state lightning alley. More than 100 thunderstorms strike that state every year.

[StormChaserMax]

@longbeach225 No, I was living in Coral Gables, and the storm was pretty much focused over South Beach, so my place was a-okay.

[hamlinfanVA]

@longbeach225 That's Florida in the summer for ya when you are not getting any tropical systems.

[JerseyShore117]

@StormChaserMax How often do these storms occur there?

[StormChaserMax]

@JerseyShore117 I lived in Miami for two years and this was the strongest storm I saw when I was there. But throughout the spring and summer there were quite a few good storms with high winds.

[disjoinedchip2]

crazy weather. storms of this intensity are exceptionally rare in the uk thankfully. but last monday we had eight hours of thunder. a case of shower upon shower upon shower.

[Randoman35]

@nanlisa I totally agree!! I am SO glad I do not live in Florida!

[nanlisa]

The Sunshine State? Florida should be nickamed "The Stormy State". Why? Because it's the hurricane and lightning capital of the U.S.

[Cougar338]

@nanlisa I agree,because those loud bits of thunder at 0:08 and 0:21 sounded like it blew up a whole building.

[JulieNoWay]

Mother nature's just pissed her pants.

[jwm239]

big time gully washer; only a hurricane could probably top that intensity.

[babygirl1140]

dang iv seen bad ones down there when i was little but dang that was a nasty one

[antonazha]

i love miami

[PhysStud2006]

Amazing footage. I need to move to Miami ;)

[pudding231]

i would just call that a damn hurricane..jeez lol

[FLAHighFlyer]

@pudding231 Most of our thunderstorms remind me of Mini tropical storms lol

[simsarethebest925456]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO MY ANUTI AND COUSIN LIVES BY THAT BEACH i think BUT I HOPE THEIR O.K

[nanlisa]

I was in Miami in February of '98. The weather was nice then, but it was raining the morning that we left.

With all the storms that you get down there, I don't think I want to live there.

[UncleSlim64]

Ye gods, that was the grand-daddy of all storms! I knew you got 'em bad in Florida, but I never would have thought on that magnitude.

[moee112]

very nice strom, and i like the comments u did during the storm. goood job bro!

[flounder75x]

An outstanding weather video. Great Job.

[StormChaserMax]

@wormsicle It was just a Canon digital camera that had a video feature. Can't remember the make or model. Only cost me $120.

Canon's seems to take the highest quality film among all the camera's under $150.

[fireblaze82]

@StormChaserMax Uhh..If it wasen't a tornado.do you think it was a hurricane?

[08Aniyah]

That was absolutely beautiful!

[sattski]

and i thought weather in wales was bad. next time it rains i spare a thought for miami! great video by the way.

[AnimationAnimater12]

more of a hurricane

[zachsaber1]

@AnimationAnimater12 NO KIDDOI NG

[njer]

سبحان الله ... خلية بردية معها رياح هاااااااااابطة سريعة جداً

اجواء جميلة جدا وهي رحمة من الله

[StormChaserMax]

@njer وكانت عاصفة مدهشة. شكرا لك.

[njer]

@StormChaserMax

شكرا لك على الكتابة لي باللغة العربية

أعجبتني ياصديقي وهنئيا لكم هذه الأجواء المنعشة

تحياتي لكم

[hebneh]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Nature in the raw is seldom mild.

I will also point again that Lights-Up Googly Balls are 2 for $10, as this video also shows us.

[pietrovaldes]

Now thats alot of rain how inches did it rain that day and was this a tornato or does it rain always like this in miami

[StormChaserMax]

@pietrovaldes Miami is prone to high intensity rainfall events, but this was definitely unusual. I think they recorded nine inches of rain in less than three hours.

[skydragon8525]

 instant hurricane LOL

[justinbonytube]

thats a dam hurricane

[SancLunatic]

I visited Florida for one week a few years back. And we had storms with nonstop thunder some for hours every evening. How do people in Florida put up with that. >_>

[skunk96]

I wish we have a bad storm here in Los Angeles. As far as thunderstorms gose, Its sucks here!!

[StormChaserMax]

@skunk96 Tell me about it - I've been here in LA for four months and haven't even seen a drop of rain.

[skunk96]

@StormChaserMax Well that depends, During the winter we will have heavy rain and sometimes not. But California is a weird area to live. It will rain today, tomorrow we will have and earthquake and or wildfire. Stick around in LA, is a great life.

[ChaseThatTornado67]

@MrWeatherForecaster me too

[imanseven]

that was the category 1 hurricane that nobody prepared for!

I would call that a disaster

[omgthisiscrazy1]

LOVED IT.  MORE.

[ChaseThatTornado67]

looks like a category 1 hurricane amazing

[StormChaserMax]

@ChaseThatTornado67 It definitely made me feel a little better for chasing nothing in the 09 season.

[ChaseThatTornado67]

@StormChaserMax yeah it was crappy where i was at first but later on there was good rain kinda like 2010

[SeverePunch14]

0:21 did lightning touch ground?

[StormChaserMax]

@SeverePunch14 Yeah, it struck a building right across the street. And that was one of probably six or seven lightning strikes that hit within 100 yards of the building I was in.

[SeverePunch14]

incredible



[xoxocandice17xoxo]

wow, that city got a big wash down. This is the real miami weather. they make the city look so glamorous on television but in reality there are crazy storms there lol. thank god i live in Connecticut, i can't deal with florida weather

[StormChaserMax]

@MrWeatherForecaster Why thank you! It really was an incredible storm, and yes, the high winds lasted for well over an hour.

I wish the winds had reached 100mph - that would have been amazing! For the most part the winds I experienced were probably in the 45-60mph range, with a few higher gusts.

[ChaseThatTornado67]

@StormChaserMax I thought today it was going to get some winds to 55 mph but i only got a drizzle

[HowsaBowsaYowsa]

Great storm video. Love the intensity of the rain and wind and lightning. That place sure did flood something crazy.

[SkyscraperMind]

Love this video man! Good shots of the city in disaster mode man.

[StormChaserMax]

@SkyscraperMind It was very, very, very fun. And no body got seriously hurt, as far as I know, so theres no shame in loving a good storm like this.

[shnizcakes]

QUICK! CALL IN THE CIVIL AIR PATROL!

[mainchow10]

I'm no meteorologist, but I'm pretty sure without lightning or thunder, much bigger size, and a circulation, this would've been Hurricane Ana as a Category 1 hurricane.

[StormChaserMax]

@mainchow10 Ha, I wish there had been hurricane force winds with this storm. As it was happening I was thinking there were wind gusts up to 100mph in certain parts, but I can accept that most of the wind gusts were in the 50 to 60mph range.

[DarkShadowRage2]

Awesome lightning strike at the start of the video.

[redeljann]

holy! this is epic!

[buho78]

Awesome!!!

I remember that storm

[tornadovideostock]

Awesome!!

[CaStormChaser]

WOW!! Insane thunderstorms Max!! Those thunderclaps are intense!! Love your footage!! 5 Stars and an add to my fav's!

[bg0821]

thanks  for posting this you weren't kidding a massive storm with hurricane force winds wow.

[agrant82]

I live in Brisbane, Australia, and we get a number of severe thunderstorms every year (we're just starting our storm season) Last year we had our worst storm in over 20 years, one area of the city was without power for almost a week

[StormChaserMax]

Yeah, there are quite a few films on youtube of that storm. I have to say from the videos that I have never seen a stronger thunderstorm than that! It must have had wind gusts over 115mph!

[StormChaserNathan]

That was one intense storm Max!

Amazing footage!!!

I experience winds like this on May 8, 2009 with that powerful Derecho that went right through my area.

[StormChaserMax]

Yeah I've seen your video. That was one intense derecho! I think they said it had winds over 100mph when it was passed through Missouri. I'd love to see something like that!

[StormChaserNathan]

Yea winds did make it over 100 mph as it became more intense while crossing over into SW Missouri. That was one incredible storm. I wish you were here to see it! They say that it was the worst derecho in a decade! I am glad I got to see it. I got the NWS storms of 2009 dvd in the mail the other day, and my footage was on that dvd of the derecho. I think that is pretty cool!