Thunderstorm near Salt Lake City Utah

June 26th, 2009: Video of a storm front coming in near West Bountiful, off of the Legacy Highway at 500 South. An incredible shelf cloud was produced along with an area of cloud rotation. Very eerie green tint to the clouds, was expecting a funnel cloud to drop at any moment.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Shelf Cloud
• Straight Line Winds
• Gust Front
• Salt Lake City
• Utah
• Vortex
• Tornado
• Thunderstorm
• mesocyclone
• Bountiful

[shavefan12]

I kept expecting to see a giant ship emerge from it like in Independence Day

[jacerocks1001]

i love you mountains :D

[Ezdduf4kuZ]

Nothing like an old fashion thunderrstorn with the fork lighning and pounding rain...i'd like to see Vancouver Canada get a handful of theser wacky thunderstorms every year but we don't, so I'll enjoy our cold winter rain and short warm summer cause we got mountains enough top climb and enough beaches to give Los Angeles a run for their money, yes we got more beachesa here than anyone can imagine starting with Kitsilano Beach which is known for it's single women &* then there's Wreck Beach (ha).

[BarWillTender]

omg! "Ain't no rest for the wicked" in the beginning! :D awesome vid btw!

[spartz117]

4:32 look the sky is having a baby! No it's just a tornado, RUN!

[spartz117]

Once I become a meteorologist I will hunt storms, for the fun of it, storms are awesome

[December1617]

@2468Horsesrock hmmm did u hear about the tornado that here in saltlake city utah in 1999?

[2468Horsesrock]

Wow its looks like a Tornado cloud... i was not there when the storm happened apparently?

[chasitysweet]

Absolute splendor! I love storms.

[grpaxto]

I reckon the worst part about storms is the calm bit before. It is so eerily quiet and there is hardly any sign of movement. I happened to be caught out in a storm like this when it was calm. It quickly turned from a calm storm to raging. I ended up staying at a strangers house till the storm subsided. Great video by the way!

[Bejbe713]

Nice Shelf Cloud:-)

[KCspur92]

Nice shelf cloud! However, you wont see a funnel cloud coming out of these. Theyre considered anti-cyclonic, which means they only produce outflow winds, or straight-line winds.