lightning_blows_transformer_tulsa_05-22-1999_slomo_MPEG1

Lightning blows a transformer about a block from my back door in Tulsa, May 22, 1999. Eery slo-mo bird songs and frame by frame.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• thunder
• lightning
• explosion
• storm
• tulsa

[DeliquescingRayne]

I believe this video is fake or your information is false. You see, the sound was too late. most people get used to thunder coming a few seconds after lighting. The speed of sound is 340 meters per second. My stopwatch counted 3.32 seconds on your video. From the time the lighting struck to the sound. That means the strike was 1129 meters away. So you mean to tell me you were 3/4 of a mile from this, yet you got that clear of a shot? Is this a Super duper zoom camera?

[marthmeat]

@DeliquescingRayne I may have misjudged the distance. I was working 3rd shift that year, and as a way to help me sleep in the daytime, I shot every thunderstorm that came through Tulsa in 1999 so i could play the storms back while i went to sleep. This is 30 seconds of about 30 hours of footage. Not fake, just coincidence. Had no idea lightning snobs were so contentious lol =)

[someone7272]

WOW! You are so lucky to get that on film!

[tvfan103]

hope Ponyboy and Johnny were inside when this happened!

[cape6000jkg]

The green flash was the result of an overheated wire that conducted the lightning surge from some distance away, burning insulation and causing a short circuit. That green flash was the a.c. arc from the short circuit burning the copper wire. Copper burns green like that. The white flash at the point of the lightning contact was probably a burning aluminum wire.

[warfreak1111]

@DeliquescingRayne Get a life

[chavez2d]

looks like zues threw his lightning quick as hell. cause damn that was fast strike.

[lonewolfintj]

Do you know for sure a transformer was hit? From the vantage point of the camera, I can't see what was hit, because the strike point was behind obstructions. I do see a blue flash. That might be an electric arc. Or, it could be ball lightning. I've seen 1 other video on YouTube that looked like actual ball lightning, which is one of the most illusive of all physical phenomena. More likely, though, it's an electric line or transformer arcing, as you say.

[vk3hau]

@DeliquescingRayne you need to check your Stop Watch, I have 1.62 Seconds on mine, not 3.32 seconds, and that put the stike 550 meters away.

[vk3hau]

@DeliquescingRayne you need to check your stop watch dude, try 1.62 seconds from stike to clap not 3.32.

[shaunh88]

Yey god is upgrading our technoligy ( yes i carnt spell no big supprisez there and yesz i did putz those z on purpose)