Supercell in Montreal - June 10th, 2008

Some brief video I took of the powerful thunderstorm that roared through most of the island of Montreal. It wasn't nearly as bad where I live, in the West Island, but it certainly was in the South Shore, where winds in excess of 110 km/h were present, along with baseball-sized hail and torrential rains. We had some debris flying around as well, in addition to some heavy rains and wind.

This is simply what it looked like in my region as the storm increasingly trailed from the SW towards the South Shore. Note that the lightning wasn't as frequent when I took this video - it became more active a little after this was taken. Also note the shear size and stacked definition of the shelf cloud - strong updrafts! The storm advancing is truly something to behold. For the most part, I believe that this was a microburst, but there were unconfirmed reports of a tornado somewhere in the South Shore, though there was no rotation or lowering present to suggest it.

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~Trav.~

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• Supercell
• thunderstorm
• Montreal

[a73347]

How do you know this was really a "supercell"? Do you know what a supercell is? If this was a supercell you would see signs of a mesocyclone in the form of clouds with a rotating structure. Please be careful when you use this term.

[Rain1290]

Hi a73347,

I'm very well routed in the supercell phenomena, and there was a wall cloud suggesting a steady mesocyclone roughly 15 minutes following this video footage. In fact, there were severe thunderstorm and tornado watches in effect for parts of the West Island and especially the South shore. Furthermore, there were reports of baseball-sized hail and funnel clouds descending to about several hundred feet off the ground. There were no touchdowns, however.

Indeed, this was a supercell

[Arienin]

i live on the south shore, we lost power for a day and a half cause a transformer blew up, branches broke off into peoples houses, windows were exploding and huge trees even got uprooted.. and fell into powerlines. was really freaky lol

[Rain1290]

Yeah, I heard you folks got it really bad. I saw some footage near or around your region, and really, that was some powerful rain and downbursts of wind.

Excellent storm, but I'm predicting a few more strong ones to develop from now until September, so be careful. The risk for severe weather is in place for most of the day tomorrow (the 14th of June).

Thanks for watching!

~Trav.~

[rainallday]

Nice camera work, thanks for the video.

Storm looked ominous!

[Rain1290]

Thank you very much, and I'm glad you liked the video. Yes, it was truly ominous when it was entering the region, and that was well enforced when those rains and wind came down!

Golfball to baseball sized hail were reported in some areas as well.

~Trav.~

[danceTOtheEND116]

i dont see anything but if i were u i would get in a safe place!!!

[themonkees2]

I finished my exams that day and saw it in Laval, pretty magnificent.....

[Win95Setup]

A lot of trees were down in Brossard, but did not see power outages or large hail.

[LeGentleman1984]

C'est sur quelle rue de Montréal ca?

[VideographyOfStorms]

Great footage Travis! Very nice storm structure with this supercell!

[darkrailvx12]

this may be a strange thing to say but, i think i live near you! i recognize the area

[epicvelocity]

Pierrefonds boulevard? :P

Anyway, I love extreme weather. It's been pretty cool the last few summers, we've had something interesting fairly consistently.

[brunohoua]

this is a supercell! look at this base :O

[TheRoorMan]

dude, you can pretty much just look at this and see that it is a supercell.

[blackneos940]

Ahh. Shittin' my pants in a suburb during summatime'..... good times. :D

[slippp40]

big words lol