Intense Lightning Storm- Fort Lauderdale, FL July 30th, 2010 [HD]

Not too shabby of a storm considering the overall thunderstorm risk on this day was only 10%. Storms started to fire up shortly before sundown west of the Fort Lauderdale area, and before long, there were several storms going, all of which were putting out intense cloud to ground lightning!

Some of the strikes have been slowed to 1/10th speed. Hope you enjoy the video! If you're a weather fan like I am, please subscribe to my channel to keep up to date on all my latest storm adventures!

Scott McPartland

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[RailRKO57]

At 2:34 that bolt looked like it hit a transformer.

[tornadovideostock]

@RailRKO57 Yep! I missed that initially but saw it when I reviewed the video later that evening! Thanks for watching!

[Janetjacksongurl]

When I went to Fort Lauderdale, I loved how it the lighting just keeps coming and coming even without rain.

Sometimes I wouldn't even hear it, just see it light up behind clouds.

[tornadovideostock]

@Janetjacksongurl I love it when that happens! And I love Florida for it's storms as well :) Thanks for watching!

[junerose621]

@tornadovideostock Yes, it def. hit something! Nice video. I think we Floridians see this type of weather so much we never bring our cameras out. I love lightning, but respect it! I think it's really beautiful. Thanks for posting. From a Native Floridian...

[kurtdog119]

@tornadovideostock

I was in a power outage that lasted until about 2 a.m., and that was actually the longest power outage I've been in since moving to my new home. I've also seen some wild weather that created a possible tornado which caused a weather related power outage. Happened during the day, but I know that if the power goes out at night, it makes your house completly dark. We recently had a bad flood that produced water levels higher than Hurricane Agnes did in 1972!

[tornadovideostock]

@kurtdog119 A few here and there, but they weren't all storm related. We had the big Blackout of August 2003 and that one we were without power for over 24 hours. Here and there the power will go out in a town while chasing storms, it's pretty common out there on the plains. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the lightning videos!

[kurtdog119]

@tornadovideostock

The lightning bolts in your Fort Lauderdale video were just an incredible sight to behold! I know of a way you can tell how far away a storm is. First, you see the lightning flash. Then count in elephant until you hear the thunder. If you get to ten elephant before hearing the thunder, the storm is ten miles away. Have you ever been in any power outages before you started chasing storms? If so, how many power outages were you in, Scott?

[DisturbedFrankeh]

"Dinner?" ;) You smooth operator.

[tornadovideostock]

@noreaga12326 Yes! lol. the night of this storm the power in our hotel went out for about 2 hours! Lost the damn air conditioning too. Finally came back on about midnight. Thanks for watching!