Thunderstorm + Hail 1" - 1.5" - May 01 2009

[athena61186]

I know what ya mean about how it wasnt stayin focused but you still did a good job with it..

[bren320]

you're fighting with the focus of the camera  hahahahahahahaha

[drft4life]

@bren320 haha yea it was a pain. I only had the camera about 2 weeks prior to this and it was ticking me off so bad as you can tell when i shoot torwards all the white to try to get a sharper contrast so the dang thing would focus. i dont have quite as much trouble with it now but still not the greatest for paying $650

[bren320]

@drft4life thanks for posting this video and sorry for my criticism.

[drft4life]

@bren320 oh its not a problem haha! thanks for the comments. criticism dont bother me one bit nor does it offend me in any way as everyones entitled to their own opinion and uploading a video to youtube and making it public is an invitation for anyone to post whatever they feel like posting :).

[pokachunk]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooow

that is one strange looking cloud!!

[drft4life]

@pokachunk LOL yes! gotta love the shelf clouds on the leading edge of some storms ;)

[pokachunk]

@drft4life - yeah, this is the only way il get to see awesome clouds like this on youtube because were i live we hardly get thunderstorms and when we do it sounds like thunders too stoned up to even make a little noise... :(

[drft4life]

@pokachunk oh wow thats sucky yesterday we had a pretty good show but for some reason my lightning I recorded @ night is not showing up on the camcorder which im extremely depressed about haha.. I just uploaded a timelapsed video of the storm we got yesterday :)

[pokachunk]

@drft4life - ohh cool i must look at it ;D so im guessing you get quite alot of thunderstorms then? :)

[AlexMNet]

@pokachunk lol I totally agree with you. I live in California. Where do you live?

[pokachunk]

@AlexMNet i live in yorkshire uk T.T ... lol

[hannahbeeandme]

where was this?

[drft4life]

this was along I44 on the CR100 (i think that was the road) overpass between Carthage and Sarcoxie

[LudvikM94]

Nice is it pssible to see a server thunder storm in Oklahoma, Northern Texas and Arkansas in June??

[drft4life]

definately... ive noticed things start slowing down in july and august but sometimes it can go passed that... i think we had some decent storms back in sept this year but i wasnt able to go out... late april/may/june is the best chances.

[drft4life]

i actually have a slideshow video from june 9th this year on some tornadic storms on my account now that i think about it :)

[TheBimbatechno]

..........mai visto in italia. il cielo cosi

[kelz0429]

Is that the JVC Everio GZ-MG300?

[kelz0429]

Ooops--I meant GZ-HD300...

[drft4life]

yea its the GZ-HD300... unfortunately this was shot prior to me understanding how to work all of the manual settings like shutter speed/wb and all of that... alot of points in this video it dropped to around 30 - 15 which is why it gets jerky...

I kinda understand it alittle more now but I have no storms to test it with... I have another video called HD Test using it in good lighting.

[darthhvader]

shelf clouds are so awesome to see

[interstateruler]

That staorm almost looks like a supercell.  Sometimes Supercells have shelf clouds

[ExtremeChasingFury]

Nice video! Where the hell was I that day?

Don't answer that question, I must of been busy!

I sure hope that we all see a supercell, with a nice tornado soon!

[drft4life]

I got lucky on this one and seen it off to the west of joplin as I was coming home from work... got home with enough time to grab the cameras and get out the door just as all the wind/rain was hitting... had to race east to get ahead of it and ended up just west of sarcoxie lol. thanks for the comment!

[shepboy8]

i was taking a vacation there but that was a thunderstorm

[shepboy8]

holy crap dude!!!! thats worser than the one i had . it sort of looks like a hurricane cloud because i live in miami beach and

if a hurricane comes thats kinda what it looks like

[drft4life]

Never have experienced a hurricane lol... this was just your typical gust front/lightning/hail/strong winds thunderstorm... I'm patiently waiting for some decent tornadic storms to come through though :P

[shepboy8]

i think your looking at a tornadic storm

[drft4life]

nope what you see hanging down is just a shelf cloud :) that is commonly found with gust fronts... was just a severe thunderstorm... and even watching it (followed it for about 30 mins) I couldnt see any evidence of rotation...

[Bororeed]

Hmm, it shows you live in Atlanta.

That is not how a hurricane looks coming in, maybe the feeder bands, but that 'came itself.

[shepboy8]

yea but i was taking a vacation there that didnt have nothing to do with that video i was just recording a thunderstorm when we went there