One of the best storm videos I've ever seen. So atmospheric!

The view is from Mt. Lebanon to the West. The strikes appear to be in Kirwin Heights PA.

I live near Greensburg, PA and these storms did a ton a damage in our area. Storms like this are almost hypnotic, this was the first time that a storm actually scared me. Great video, I took some too but it isnt as good. Great work!

Thor is battling with the Hulk again.

The thunder sounds like explosions with the sound quality which is funny.

I shot this from my apartment balcony located in Mt. Lebanon. The view is from Mt. Lebanon towards the West with lightening strikes hitting area of Kirwin Heights PA

@FireFlamesrocks the near strike was about 1.5 miles from the camera. It blew out a sub station on rt 50 which is about 1.5 mile from where the camera was located.

Absolutely the best electrical storm video I've seen to date. Steady video, held in one direction (Not trying to follow each and every flash) with proper focus and no idiotic commentary. Thank-you so much!

This is one of the best lightning storms I've ever seen. Thanks for the friggin awesome footage

Yikes! What a storm! And such beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing this.

I’ll never forget this storm, I was only 7 and I can still remember the EAS coming on our TV and seconds after the broadcast stopped the lights went out and all hell broke loose outside

yes it was loud and the closest strike was about one mile away.

This is one of the best thunderstorm videos i've seen on KZread Great upload

@waggeo99 This view is from The Bower Hill Apartments facing due west, looking across Scott Twp to Kerwin Heights, across I-79 and on to Ohio.

Hello I am from Oslo,Norway and I just loved your video...Spectacular and awsome!. Seen a few in Orlando over the past years on vacation,but this one gave me goosebumps!

This is absolutely superb...

I love storms like this that spit tons of CG's out of the shelf cloud / rain-free base. They are rare. With most storms the lighting bolts are mostly inside the rain so it isn't nearly as photogenic.

Freddy, There could have been closer strikes but the one that hit a power sub station was about a mile away.

One of the best thunderstorm vids I have seen......

Best lightning video yet!

Still one of my favorite videos 4 years later

this is the best storm video ive seen - ans such a clear picture!! awesome

This is my favorite part of a storm. Before any rain falls, the wind, the thunder, the lightning. I especially love the singing birds in the background too. :D

Thank you, Great video I enjoyed seeing who long it took for the sound to reach the camera after each lightening bolt.

This storm is like nothing I ever experienced!!!! These thunder claps sounded explosive!

Great storm... Showing my three year old this vid as we have thunderstorms in the uk today. This was a great example of thunder & lightening!

Man that's a massive and very beautiful storm. If only we had such thunderstorms in Greece.

Now that's a helluva storm! Could almost feel my scalp tingle as my hair stands up (actually happened once, pretty lucky)! Looks like you were pretty close to the action...

Thanks man, this is just amazing video... exactly what I was looking for... no voices just thunders and nature....BRAVO! Do you have some more? Here in London is crap no lightnings :(

What a Beautiful Storm !! Congratulations !

@Flackerr The speed of sound is about one kilometer in three seconds or approximately one mile in five seconds.

This was excellent 🏆

That was one of the longest,loudest,storms that I ever heard! Great lightening shots,too.

This is intense. A number of these bolts had eight or more return strokes. I counted eleven return strokes for the bolt at 1:40. From the size of some of these bolts and the number of return strokes, I am guessing that a lot of these bolts are positive.

@hermanuslemmer1695

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, I don't believe these bolts were positive. Positive bolts usually have only one flash and look straight. Also, the thunder from positive bolts sounds like bombs detonating.

There was one tornado warning in parts of Pittsburgh because there was a tornado spotted on the south side.

Wow!! Phenomenal video!! This is like the Thunderstorms we get in South Florida in the summer.

was the thunder really loud and what was the closest lightning strike?

freekin awesome video man, you can see the cloud rotation, i'm from the latrobe area, westmoreland county, storm there was insane

Dude that looks a lot like a supercell thunderstorm, just the way the updraft looks and the slight spin you see in the clouds!

I remember this day. 3 storms rolled through and i was outside videotaping them all day. Lol.

Now that is some amazing footage well done. I dont know if you realise that the bolts mimic each other on the far ex-streams of the clouds. very interesting.

absolutely superb video, you have an excellent vantage point where you are.

Something kept getting struck right in the middle of the camera view. Must have been really charged.

one of the best storm vids on youtube.....5*****.

I believe you wasn’t expecting to hear that thunderstorm coming closer and closer towards your area Richard

@richardasharp

3 жыл бұрын

Actually I was expecting the storm to come directly at me because that is the way most storms roll here, West to east.

Welcome to Pittsburgh: If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes.

Neat video man! I love it!

excellent video !!!

What the hell is going on there? Chance is 50-50 to get hit by lightning.. its barely moving. Is this heat generated tstorm or along the front?

Rich, How close do you think the lightning was?

Yes, Pittsburgh is near the Ohio state line. The view if the camera is due west towards Ohio about 25 miles as the crow flies.

You don't want to be outside when it is lightning like this. We had a storm like this in Detroit a couple of weeks ago. The lightning was so bad, I wouldn't dare go outside. I didn't even want to get close to the windows. Also, we had brief power outages due to the power surges. This is definitely clear the baseball diamonds and clear the golf courses kind of weather.

Was there some damage from the lightning? Because some of the strikes looked pretty close.

Did you shoot any other videos like this?

amazing video mate, i didnt watched it through first time, second time i just lied back and listend

That was a big storm!

If it takes 5 seconds for the thunder to come, is it 5km away then ?

Nice catch!!!! I'd like to film some storms here in Montreal. We don't have often storms like that but they are as scary as that....

great video XXXXX!!!!

Great view of an amazing storm.

Those cracks are insane dude 😍

That is one epic lightning barrage!

Very nice lightning and cloud structure!

Thanks hasn't rained here in Southern California for 6 months.

Excellent Video !

Nice video! bravo! I am from Canonsburg pa!

A terrific video...

damn, i'm glad i clicked this video. Such a photogenic storm

Saturday August 30th Pittsburgh had some bad storms!

What a brilliant view! I wanna live right there!

What a storm! Where there any tornadoes?

With the changing climate and weather patterns, Pittsburgh can definitely look forward to more significant tornadic activity in the very near future.

Moro no Vale do Paraíba,tb em SP e o clima aqui é assim tb. Eu amo essas tempestades bem eletrificadas!!

What time of the day was this ? Morning ? How long did this storm last and was it a stormy day all day ?

@richardasharp

2 жыл бұрын

On June 17, 2009, a rapid series of powerful thunderstorms produced multiple funnel cloud sightings. The storms dumped over three inches of rain in some locations, causing severe flash flooding.

simply perfect

Wow, the sound of that thunder strike (4:40min) let me think of that one thunder that struck the roof of my uncles house. My dad was exactly under it.

With super charged + lightning going out is no no! 😳

My thunderstorms where I live are rather different. In Eastern France. I am very happy when I film them but they give two or three lightning strikes at most!

if you slow it down you can see the very first lightning strike hit the street on the other block

I remember this storm. It was absolutely nasty.

@phunkblister I don't see a funnel but there's definitely some rotation with a nice inflow notch.

Great lightning. My favorite was the squiggly bolt about three minutes in. This would not be a thunderstorm during which I would have liked to have been outside.

BROOOOOO I WAS BORN 21 DAYS AFTER THIS

@WhosMunch yes they did and they blew out a electric power sub station.

Oh, it is very real and so was the affect it had on sections of Pittsburgh east of where this location.

Great looking storm. Just a shame about the wind noise.

The lightning in this storm is intense.

That's an awesome supercell!

You are correct. I went back and took one second at 3:10 and slowed it down and you can indeed see the white light from what appears to be a ground explosion. Look at the Video Responses for a better view.

Very cool love my Lebanon. God bless!

I loooove thunderstorms :D I recorded one yesterday and I live in the south of england :D It was awesome! It was right above our house, but only lasted about 20 minutes :p I hope we get some more.

I live in dormont. was at my friends house in dormont up by St, Bernards church. he got up went to the kitchen and said DUDE! come quick. black wall of clouds. lol we sat on his roof till it was too close. remember this like it happened yesterday. by far the most extreme storm i ever seen.

I was right freakin in the middle of it . The best storm I've experienced to date...

Wow what for a beautiful Supercell with postive Lightnings!

notice on the left that one cloud that is lighter than the other one is slowly spinning.....

Nice video and a thumbs up. What a shame about the audio quality.

Amazing storm!!

like your video and this was pittsburgh pa right

@richardasharp

4 жыл бұрын

Jr Kuzel yes, Mt. Lebanon a suburb of metropolitan Pittsburgh area.

Wow!! Amazing deadly lightning.

@frogqueen84 if you pause it then scroll in this mode u can see it in slow motion...and it's even more fantastic