June 4, 2008 Very Severe Thunderstorm in Gaithersburg, MD (Surprise @ 9:40)

[Kombivar]

You had greatest opportunity to make a film of life, and you failed!

Next time remember about three rules:

1. Never speak when you recording! (sometimes its difficult)

2. Try to keep your Camera static, and make a smooth moves (you never catch everything, but lightning will never strike near the last one, just observe and try to forecast next one)

3. When you're recording thunderstorm, always try to keep focus on the brightest point, then the lightnings will be available to catch.

[ConservativeRuleinUS]

This person needs to get out more! That was not a strong storm at all. He'll think the world is ending if he gets into a storm with winds in excess of 70 mph...LOL

[lacucuracha1]

During that storm there was a tornado warning in my area. My dad said he saw the funnel cloud while he was at work but it never hit the ground.

[cloudthepain]

lol woa that one at 6:56 scared me! lol and im just watching

[chug26]

jonothen dag nappit lmao

[102Joshi]

Just out of interest, are storms like this common in Maryland. We never tgts storms that intense in Ireland. Our storms are rubbish compared to those in the US!!

[StinkyGreenBud]

Heh this is pretty nasty but the ones we get in the south are hell...and in the summer we get them just about every day for like 30mins.

[102Joshi]

This is a cool storm! I am totally blind, however I can still hear storms, even if I can't see them. My laptop has speach software on it, called jaws, so it reads out everything on the screne to me. If I'm not mistaken, this storm was probably a derecho. I'm very interested to know what this storm looked like at the start of the video, because you said "that's the kind of stuff that forms a tornado".

[myss911]

At first I thought you only knew how to say 4 words... "Shit" and "Oh My God" but then Dad came home and I realised that you did have a bigger vocabulary.... LOL! That one thunder scared the bejesus out of me!!!

[RJARRRPCGP]

Springfield, Vermont got a T-storm similar to that on June 22, 2008, then after Springfield, Vermont was done, The Weather Channel had a severe T-storm warning for Central New Hampshire and mentioned baseball size hail and I LOLed when I saw the Weather Channel mentioned "BASEBALL SIZE" on the screen, then a tornado warning occurred shortly after, for Central New Hampshire. When the tornado warning occurred, there wasn't even a T-storm in Springfield, thus was safe.

[bigpinga12]

this storm is weak i experience worse everyday here inmiami florida

[GuitarHero2131]

damn maryland had one BAD severe t storm last night O.O

[GuitarHero2131]

this storm set of a siren in lexington park

[dk13492008]

this same storm came throught my school in winchester virginia we had a tornado warning, we dont get those alot

[ericsummey95]

Yea I heard it ot pretty ad in Indiana and Illinois. We got lucky that they weakened when the got here. Hope nobody got hurt.

[ericsummey95]

Some storms I have been through threw my garbage cans a pretty good ways down the street, Tennessee thunderstorms can get very violent!

[prulekamei]

that was my birthday

[browndemon386]

now if you guys can get a little bit of floods and earthquakes i think a balance will be fulfilled!! Earth's Vengeance!!!

[brandonman24]

dude a ufo at 0:44 seconds

[imclosetfree]

a Bird dude!

[BreezyLove1212]

I was working at 6 Flags when this storm came and since it's so close to DC we got hit pretty hard. I was inside at the time but I went out and looked at the sky and it was sunny 5 minutes later it was completely dark almost like night. Then about a minute later there was a loud crackling, popping boom and a bright flash. All you heard was people screaming. I went to the door and everyone was running toward the front gate and into stores. When that storm was over a few smaller storms followed.

[loryr405]

did u make a video of it? i love seeing insane videos like that lol

[BreezyLove1212]

Nope. I didn't get a chance to. Work was getting crazy for me because of the storm. I had to keep checking the radar and keep up with the calls coming in.

[loryr405]

aww ok. but i can still imagine what it was like

[pswhatever90]

Actually, it hit in Germantown, MD Too.

[apocolypse34]

the second to last day of my school was on this day and our power went out..so the school's lights went out. also, we couldn't go to school the last day of school..so we had our 8th grade graduation at my friend's house instead..and that day of the graduation (june 5th) it had perfect weather and it was sunny and we had an awesome pool party. lol.

[jangel8798]

typical afternoon thunderstorm here in Florida.

[amanthainachinashop2]

Oh my gosh! This storm happened 15 years TO THE DAY from a storm we had here in Lynchburg in 1993! I stayed home from school that day sick and the storm hit 1 HOUR after I got home from the doctor!

[thewretched18]

thats awesome, storms are so cool.

[sprinklefriend]

is this that storm that basically got sooooo serious out of nowhere?

if it is, that storm was hell. i was at home within sight of dulles airport and it got serious about 5 minutes before it hit us - reported tornado just a few miles away.

the person who died as their car was smashed by a tree? my friend was driving just a few cars behind.

[IronPanda145]

Hey, do you remember when couple years ago there's a huge snow storm and they closed the school for like a week?

[yankstc]

this was on my birthday. we lost power.

[pcchea]

part 2:

no school the next day, and friday, sligo got out, at least my trip to Bush Gardens was not canceled. this was one of the worse storms i ever seen in Montgomery County (before i moved:D)

[pcchea]

Part 1:

i had to run durning the storm to pick up my brother from school, i was running in lightning and thunder, winds picked up right when i was about 50 ft. away from the entrance, i was in the school for about 1 hour, the principal was a bitch, and when i got home, i thought it was over, then lost power, then 2 hrs. later, it happened again, the radio station had no commercials, gust "tornado warning in PG county, watch in Montgomery County, it ended at 930pm, the next day, no school,

[acrazychicken]

i was in my car during that storm!

[dr4in3d]

man da whole fucking power in quail vally was out

[ronish000]

we lost power for 2 days

[Guanaco91]

if that was the day we lost electricity for a good min. nd didnt work nd ii still got paid. then it was one awsome day =D. hope we have it again! haha

[MyStormVideos]

please check out my 2007 worse storm the clouds seemed to look the same as your storm the clouds in the beginning of my clip looks like an horse or unicorn in an up right position

[theadam100]

and the gaithersburg high school graduation was the day after that i think!

[XxYUMTASTiCxX]

a tree fell on my house because of that storm

[SkateLyfe4Realz]

i forgot to mention that a lightning strike hit the street in front of us

[SkateLyfe4Realz]

after the first stomr me and my dad and 2 bros went out driving...we had absolutly no gas by the time we started heading home...so we went to a gas station. b4 that i told my dad theres no power so they can't pump gas...but we still stopped at a station...we were there for 4 HOURS...

[WeatherWarriordotnet]

Oh, and the lightning stike...yes, you were extremely lucky. As a professional storm chaser. Usually that sound (more of a pop, than a crash), usually means you were within the initial shockwave caused by the lightning. In otherwords, less than 200 feet from the strike. You may want to look around your house for the strike location. Look for split tree bark, plastics that are slightly deformed, etc. I'd start with the backyard after reviewing your video.

[Pimpedoutrides7293]

well actually, our street (the street running along the left in the video) was hit the hardest within I'd say about a 2 to 3 mile range. I went biking afterwards and found millions of branches fallen (like most places) but we had an extreme number of trees that NEEDED to be cut down and that were split pretty badly. one of the trees needed to go down was one house over (which is probably where the lightning struck)

[AbdullahTheNecro]

hey i grew up near montgomery...is that near dufeif elementary? i remember this big ass pond we had in the back yard down a huge hill...

[WeatherWarriordotnet]

I can understand how the average person would think this was a big storm. And you must not have lived in this area all that long. These type of storms were routine in the 80s and early 90s. The cycle will likely come around over the next ten years, with slow and steady increase of more severe weather each summer.

As far as the video...I understand about the cell phone, but next time, try to keep the camera/phone still....way too much movement.

[Pimpedoutrides7293]

agreed 100%. I'm only 15 so I didn't have too much experience with storms in the area. My dad however is a bit older, used to live in D.C. (which is roughly 15 minutes away) and he's seen worse, but still had to admit this was pretty bad (and yeah about the shaking, i was looking more at the storm than into my phone, otherwise i would have held still a little more, but the storm was too...unusual for me to actually care about my phone)

[rafto129]

Correction: i ment year!!

[rafto129]

Yeah, you said it, thats the worst storm YOU'VE seen, over here in DR we have to deal with huricanes and tropical storms every yeah.

[Pimpedoutrides7293]

yeah there's worse out there, that I know, it's just unusual for a storm like this here

[sassynsweet19]

I remember that day i live in gburg n that was crazy

[phun1]

Just a little rain... Don't panic.. WOHHW did you see that tree move?!?! Thunder! :|