Severe Thunderstorm in Dayton, Tennessee

[6649393]

what kind of camera do you have?

[ILovestorms]

@6649393 At the time, an RCA VHS camcorder. That's what I used to video tape this storm with. We don't have one now that works, unfortunately. :(

[6649393]

@ILovestorms cool yesterday i bought one off ebay for 50 $

[Espeon128]

I remember this storm. When I saw that freaking huge storm coming into Rhea, I freaked.

[tom58c]

I like storms too much. I would have stood outside to listen and watch. Was the wind bad? Cool stuff though.

[ILovestorms]

The wind picked up a bit. but I couldn't tell that much, since it was at night. I know that about 16 west of where I took this video, trees were down in Pikeville, Tennessee and that in Cleveland, Tennessee, about 30 miles to the southeast, the wind blew the roof off a rubbermaid facility, according to the SPC. Go to their site and look up 3/29/2002.

[urbanpoet06]

Great video! Wish we had storms like that here in the UK :(. Keep on filming! :)

[ILovestorms]

Excuse me, but you WILL NOT be using that language commenting on my videos!!!!!!! I mean it!!

[ILovestorms]

What are you talking about?

[foxolita]

i live right on the gulf, in florida, so i have seen a lot of lightening, but the worst i can remember, was 2 sisters walking on the beach, perfectly clear day, and a huge bolt of lightening killed them both!! no warning, nothing! that is what's sooo terrifying about lightening!!

[ILoveThickChicks88]

Lmao! Yea, he sounds like a real fruit cake!

[ILovestorms]

What are you talking about? What do you mean?

[ILoveThickChicks88]

Don't sweat it. I don't know about gazeyre, but I'm just playing around. U do sound excited, but if I was in a storm like that, I'd be excited too.

[mikewx2]

"I think I need to step back."

This is awesome.

[ILovestorms]

My mom and dad were not happy with me that I was out on the balcony with lightning that close.

[mikewx2]

As a parent myself, I understand their feelings on that, Brian. When I took video of the thunderstorms here at daybreak Saturday I left my camera on the front porch and only went out long enough to move it. Lightning scares me more than tornadoes because it is completely unpredictable and is so deadly.

[ILovestorms]

I've heard that lightning kills more people a year on average in the U.S. than tornadoes and hurricanes.

[mikewx2]

Yes it does. That guy who spoke on the dangers of lightning at the MSU Symposium renewed my appreciation of the dangers of lightning. Should metorologists place more emphasis on this?

[ILovestorms]

Oh, absolutely!

[kennypwnsjoo]

Nope nvm..It was a tree.

[kennypwnsjoo]

Hmmm I paused it at 1:56 and I found what looks to be a small tornado about EF-1 on the ground.

[ILovestorms]

In the first place tornadoes are very rare in this mountainous area in southeastern Tennessee, although there was one in the 80s that took out some trees right there at this camp and in the second place you can't guess what EF-scale rating a tornado is when it is on the ground - that is based solely on the damage that the tornado caused after it has passed.

[sturs1991]

nah da shape doesnt look like a tornado if u look at da middle-left window pane.

[CandleLites]

u seem excited

[ILovestorms]

I was very excited. I only got 2 hours of sleep that night, I was so excited. Shortly before I filmed this, I hurt my toe playing basketball and had to have surgery and 2 pins put in.

[ILovestorms]

Yes, the power went out. This is not where I live, though. We were visiting friends who run a christian camp. But, yes their power went out. Watch the clock in the video change from 9:09 to 9:11 p.m. which is @ 5:18 and then watch the rest. No lights.

[SROSELLI]

did your power go out?