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  • wow impressive

  • Great video! I lived in Iowa and I know Iowa is known for it's server thunderstorms! Glad you were safe during this storm :)

  • wars the sound.

  • Now thats a true thunderstorm. little usless rain showers can learn from this storm on how to be a real force of nature.

  • I am a professional storm spotter and I agree after watching your video peak wind gusts here in the 90-100 mph range looks to be a microburst.

  • Awesome video! That's some impressive straight line winds. You may be interested to know that someone in the UK is passing your video off as their own, claiming it happened in the UK. I've been blocked from their page after pointing it out to them but if you search for "storm, snaps, tree, scotland", you'll find it :-)

  • @brenpebbs Thanks for the heads up. It has been taken care of. :)

  • storms are awesome

  • @AeroStorm911 Yes. Yes they are.

  • Im glad Irene wasn't tht bad I'm on the jersey shore this woulda been the end of us with wind like tht dam u got a good video dude

  • holy crap now thats a thunderstorm

  • at 1:00 is when the tree falls

  • Thats an insane wind! We get storms in Virginia,but nothing like that goodness HAVE MERCY!!!!! The poor little tree didnt stand a chance!

  • Wow. That's a heck of a storm!!! Awesome video!!

  • @rockinharddude Thanks. :)

  • It's ok folks, the tree made a complete recovery.

  • That tree disliked this.

  • yes I would say in excess of 80mph winds there. Certainly more than 60mph. One of the best thunderstorm videos I've seen. We don't get them like that on the east coast. I want to do some storm chasing in the midwest,

  • why is there no sound?

  • @Anglynn74 Sorry about that. The sound got messed up during the rendering and I never went back and fixed it. It wasn't that big of a deal to be honest, you couldn't really hear the winds from inside.

  • @phatman300 Just looked it up, the gust data for that day in that town was 66 mph

  • at least 90 mph we got that in devon once at 98mph

  • I just thought FUCK!

  • It look funny how the tree ripped off

  • holy o_O

  • thats just a reminder that we dont own this planet, it owns us. and from time to time it will remind us of that.

  • that tree doing the limbo

  • 2011 is here.. most violent storms to come

  • Been in this stuff many times, about 70 to 80 mph.

  • this is strong wind and i hope i never will experience weather like this but i can see the main door at the house on the other side of the road is opened!

  • 70-80 probably

  • 84 to 96 mph wind gusts. . .sustained wind is approximately 70 to 75 mph.

  • 80-100

  • We had some destructive winds hit our neighborhood 2 years back. 1 house destroyed, 1 damaged, over 100 trees down.

  • We just had straight line winds hit our city (Battle Creek, Michigan) like 3 weeks ago. There's no way ours were going less that 100mph with the way tree's were lifted from the grounds (roots and all) and onto buildings.

  • I remember this storm when I lived in the Quad Cities

  • solid microburst....great thrill as long as mother nature lets you keep the house.

  • Id say 70-80mph

  • CHOPPED IT PERFECTLY

  • its the heavy rain, the flying debree, roaring thunder, blinding lightning, the strong tornadoes, and the loud sirens that bring me to full, quiet, and tranquil relaxation. Yeah thats pretty fucked up DONT JUDGE ME

  • I'd guess about 75 to 85mph, however, I am certainly no expert. I would think it would take a lot to snap a tree like that though, especially a little healthy looking one.

  • R.I.P Tree.

  • going through hurricane katrina inland away from the surge.... big pine trees snapped in half... EVERYWHERE glad i evacuated.... would've sounded like an air raid outside with those trees snapping

  • awesome video.even though there was no sound,but with winds like that u can guess what it sounded like.yea high winds and tornadoes love mobile homes unfortunately

  • Based on what the Enhanced Fujita Scale says, this would be the equivalent of about a weak EF1, with winds somewhere between 85-100 mph. I'm leaning more towards the 100 mph end of that, since that was a rather large tree to be bending in such a fashion. I'm surprised it didn't break much sooner.

  • NCDC says 61kts. That's around 70mph. It looks worse to me, but that's the official report.

  • 65 - 75 MPH ... Maybe a higher Gust or two. Vid was too short and moved too much to be sure. For purposes of demonstrating Wind Speed the Camera needs to be rock steady.

  • @hammerogod That tree is way to small to be snapped off like that in 70 mph winds.

  • @mcgeeb121

    .."Maybe a higher gust or two"..

    I allowed for the possibility that the wind may have gusted above 70 mph.

    After seeing 100's of similar storms I know for a fact that wind speeds are commonly over-estimated.

    Either way I would not have wanted to be out playing Golf in that storm.

  • @hammerogod Just think of the distance you'd get with that tailwind!!

  • It looks like enough of the tree remained for it to be able to survive. And afterwards, it would always be a reminder of this storm.

  • 80-100 mph winds has to be there were possible 105 mph wind spurts

  • Peak wind gusts 100 mph or slightly higher in this video. There's another video -"Severe Storm (Derecho) we got in Texas" and those winds were 85-100 mph as stated by meteorologists who reviewed that video. These winds look slightly stronger than in that impressive video.

  • Hell, it's doing something like this outside right now... don't you just love Springtime in the Midwest.

  • @bublycat would you happen to be in southern iowa?

  • @phatman300 i live in southern iowa, we dont really get that excited about it anymore do we

  • @bublycat i see alot of action such as power outages in kansas because of high wind thunderstorms. Its good to live in the midwest.

  • now take the strongest gust there and make it last for multiple hours and you have a hurricane....

  • I've been in 3 hurricanes as a chaser and those estimates of 80 mph are good ones

  • I was in something like this but was called a microburst and i was praying to god and i was scared as heck.

  • I would say that is around 80mph. I have been in many hurricanes and minimal category 1 winds is whats in this video.

  • @weatherbug95

    Yeah you're right!

  • Purdy intense

  • 1:00 the snap

  • 90-100 mph gusts. (This poor tree could resist if there was no leafs :D)

  • I would say some of the most extreme gusts were near 100mph. Being in a lot of hurricanes in the past that is my best guess. I would like to see more hurricanes with rains like in this video. Believe it or not most cars will not overturn in less than 125 mph winds.

  • @cyclonejimcom I experienced a 110 mph horizontal wind from a microburst in queens,NY in summer of 86.It was a little faster then this video but not as much rain

  • @fadethetrade there are microbursts in New York City?

  • @bflatism 100 to 110,about the speed of my queens microburst 1986.We just had one in great neck LI. in june,that won hit about 100.

    this video looks like about 110.I compared it to hurricane charley eyewall video,did you see it??? damn! that was 145mph!

  • 80-100mph.

  • Yeah, that's gotta be closer to 100. I've been in 60-65mph winds many times and it didn't look anything like that.

  • 60 - 65 mph. Winds in the 100 mph category can move/flip cars.

  • i should have put this in the description but down the street (It would be near the right side of the screen, but you can't see it because of the poor visibilities) a mobile home was lifted off its foundation, flipped, and dropped about 20 ft. away from its original position.

  • @omgthisiscrazy1 No this is probably one of the videos that doesn't "Claim" that this is 100mph wind but that definitly looks like 100mph wind. The only time i have ever experienced wind that intense is on Kingda Ka haha

  • @omgthisiscrazy1

    its not in 60 mph

    nolt so long ago, like 1 or 2 weeks ago i was in a huge storm with 50 mph winds

    yes i know 50 isnt 60 but it didnt seem like this was 60

    the trees were just shaking, but it was pretty hard but the visibilites didnt explode down like this

  • @omgthisiscrazy1 You really can't measure winds can you? Sustained winds of 70 to 75 mph. ( 1 minute or longer) with wind gust reaching 84 to 96 mph., gien the amount of debre and a young tree approx 10 to 14 ft tall with a 4" to 6" trunk with reinforced roots would usually take a 90 mph wind gust to snap it 1/3 of the way up, unless you live in a swamp with shallow rooted trees however a tree would be uprooted in that case, thank you courtesy of the NWS/SPR NOAA. . .

  • unless you have a tiny top heavy vehicle "A Car" Will Not Flip in a 100 mph wind gust from straight line winds and or microburst. . . Try doing a little research before assuming anything without having sent proper knowledge of what you are mentioning on youtube, privately, publicly, or anywhere for that matter. . . Thank You, Courtesy of the NWS/SPR NOAA.

  • @omgthisiscrazy1 i would esimate 70+ with this storm

  • looks like at least a good 100 mph straight line winds

  • I would have to say my estimate would be 110-115 mph maybe less...  Unbelievable video...

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