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

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-Note- Before anyone brings this up I want to make sure everyone understands I said this is the worst Thunderstorm I've seen in Gaithersburg, NOT the worst storm

-Video Responses below this video will consist of videos involving Doppler and Warnings showing the storm and it's path.

-This was taken in Gaithersburg, Maryland June 4,2008

-Washington D.C. (which is about 15 minutes from my house) was hit the hardest and longest, this was the outskirts of the storm (which, as you can see, were still heavy)

-This storm was one of many whether conditions Maryland had to deal with including
*Tornado Watch
*Tornado Warnings
*Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
*Heat Advisory

-The lack of quality of the video was because my cousin was graduating from Warrant Officers School in the Army in Alabama June 6, and they took my video camera, so all I had was my cell phone. I apologize

-PLEASE KEEP ANNOTATIONS ON TO UNDERSTAND SOME PARTS OF THE VIDEO

-It's hard to tell, but I was also on the phone at the time (I had her on speaker but low volume) so she asked me to describe the storm for her cause she was out of town and the only two phrases that came to me this whole video (as you may have heard) were s**t and oh my g*d.

-My dad yelled at me when the garage door closed because water was just everywhere in the garage


Note: I don't really care what I did was stupid because in the end, I think it was worth it.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Thunderstorm
• Montgomery
• County
• Gaithersburg
• Maryland
• Lightning
• Bolt
• storm
• high
• winds
• hell

[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)

[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]

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

[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

[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!!!

[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

[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]

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!!

[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".

[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.