This is easily the best severe thunderstorm footage I’ve ever seen

It's a Florida supercell, the strong constant 80mph gust is created by a "wet microburst", they can create winds as strong as a EF1-EF2 tornado and are very dangerous, good footage!

@cartersvhscorner50

4 ай бұрын

the thunderstorm was so strong they can't let them count up to 5 to make it go away.

Toronto had a storm just like this one a week ago tonight. Waist-deep floods, power outage, for up to 20 hours, and massive hard rain falling for 2 hours straight, and blowing off the roofs and coming down sideways because of the damaging winds. It all started right at the height of the afternoon rush. The city core rarely sees that, if ever, but we sure did last week as its more common north and west of us. The hardest part for me was no hydro, which meant no A/C, and it was so hot and humid

Love those Southern subtropic summer storms in Florida and Texas. Houston gets storms like this too throughout the summer.

@StylistecS

8 жыл бұрын

***** That's cool and yeah I agree. I've experienced more intense ones in Texas than I have in Florida.

@StylistecS

8 жыл бұрын

Because of the seabreezes. One thing I find different from Texas and Florida's summer weather is that Florida gets thunderstorms throughout the season where as Texas can be wet in the beginning, wet at the end, and just bone dry in between.

@jonthegamerboy

5 жыл бұрын

And then you have the cities built over creeks

@TinaBelcher2005

6 ай бұрын

When a storm goes on, I miss everything by saying "Oh, damn it! I missed my ride!"

what FL is known best for, storms and close lightning!

That was one hell of a storm! I'm glad you got home safely even if it did take a long time.

Those SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS were insane

The tropical humid atmosphere is key for these strong thunderstorms to occur around Miami especially in the summer. That was extremely heavy rain falling. I don't think I've ever seen such torrential downpours that drop so much rain in a small amount of time.

@peanutgenius6124

8 жыл бұрын

Also, the sea breeze fronts

That guy in the yellow rain jacket that standing outside next to a tree is crazy 👱🏻🟨🧥👣🌴🤪

I have NEVER heard of a hour and a half long storm! And it dumped so much rain! This too epic for my heart. Very great video.

WOW!! Insane thunderstorms Max!! Those thunderclaps are intense!! Love your footage!! 5 Stars and an add to my fav's!

14 years later I still remember this storm…what a nightmare…I was stuck on the causeway between star and palm island…car was shaking for 45+ minutes. I’ve never been so freaked out and scared for my life….

The flooding at 3:37 was insane. I used to live in the keys and we would always get those storms. They caused so much damage and confusion. Btw... That looked more like a tropical storm...

Back in the 90's we in central Florida used to get storms like these on a daily bases in the Summertime(particularly in the early-mid 90's when I first came down here). Now I don't know what happened but they've since calmed down with some rare exceptions.

I miss Florida. The storms there are a little scary, but the thunder is beautiful.

@heatherstub

8 жыл бұрын

Me, too. That's where I was born, and I haven't been back there since the winter of 1973. What I miss most, though, is the night blooming Jasmine and Moon Flowers. Of course, the Gardenia is my overall favorite, but that's because I had some recently, and Night Blooming Jasmine doesn't bloom in Georgia. Oh how I wish I could move out of the State of Georgia. Atlanta had a slogan once. It said: "Atlanta: A city too big to hate." I changed it to: "Atlanta: A city too big to care."

@RyhzaliaLisa4118

8 жыл бұрын

Heather stubbs Nice.

@juels508

7 жыл бұрын

The Ironwing Kaiser You need Southern California!

@CR7GOATofFootball

2 жыл бұрын

@@juels508 not enough rain there.

Officially 14 years since that monster came around, what a ride it would’ve been! High floods, possibly 80mph winds, very torrential downpours, just wow.

Incredible. Me and my family went to Florida last summer but we never had anything close to this

@heatherstub

3 жыл бұрын

My family and I lived in Hollywood, Florida where my twin sister and I were born in 1964. We got hit by some pretty intense storms including a tropical storm, and then, there was Hurricane Camille! I was 5 at the time, and I remember that we had to take shelter underground in the Diplomat Hotel. That was a horrific storm, and to think that it was in both the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico is similar to Catrina!

Also in a "Cyclone" in Australia, you don't get much lightning either... Just heaps of wind and rain.

Dude I love this storm!! Thanks for posting!!

Awesome lightning strike at the start of the video.

This is good example of tropical monsoonal influence. Rotating damaging wind gusts and heavy flash flooding rains is a counterpart definition of monsoon.

wow what an adrenaline rush! that storm was amazing. I feel bad for people losing cars and such. That part always sucks.

Thunderstorms can be like hurricanes but with less warning and no evacuation.

golf balls must be bloody small in Florida

@Lolo_____569

5 жыл бұрын

Why is there blood on a golf ball??

My friend lives in Orlando and he says these storms happen alot with violent lightning and flash flooding. The weather conditions there are a perfect recipe for storms like this.

That was insane severe weather that hit Miami Beach Florida. Strong thunderstorms with 80 mph winds lead to driven heavy rain and hail. This storm was a mayhem. The winds was strong as a Category 1 hurricane.

Most amazing footage I have seen. Great job

crazy close CG's.... nice catch

When I was a kid in Lauderdale, we use to love the faces tourist made.. Just another afternoon shower, we'd say.. For the longest time, it kept them from moving in.. Thanks for the memories, Max

Crazy rainfall man! Awesome video.

very nice strom, and i like the comments u did during the storm. goood job bro!

Yeah, in tornado alley the tornadoes generally come near the end of the storm, although they are often wrapped on all sides by hail and heavy rain. That's because they usually form on the southwest edge of the supercell. Sometimes, however, like in Jarrell Texas circa '97, the storm will travel in an unusual direction and the tornado will come first.

With the flat terrain it takes forever for all of that water to go away...

absolutely incredible footage.

Here in Las Vegas (I was born in '99) had a 70, 80 mph thunderstorm back in July 1994 which tore down parts of the Hilton sign downtown.

Great video, I was in Miami 2 weeks ago, two days before the hurricane and downtown flooding in Miami. and the tornado in palm Beach. Pity I missed all the action.

Great footage!

@JerseyShore117 I lived in Miami for two years and this was the strongest storm I saw when I was there. But throughout the spring and summer there were quite a few good storms with high winds.

Great footage of a great storm!

Love this video man! Good shots of the city in disaster mode man.

Wow, big storm. I love thunderstorms but not when people get hurt or their property is damaged. Nice video.

Man, with flooding like that, I'd be worried about gators in my yard or doorway. Great vid

9 inches of rain in less than 3 hours. That's crazy !!!

@MrWeatherForecaster Why thank you! It really was an incredible storm, and yes, the high winds lasted for well over an hour. I wish the winds had reached 100mph - that would have been amazing! For the most part the winds I experienced were probably in the 45-60mph range, with a few higher gusts.

Never was in a violent storm but West Allis has had a lot of severe thunder storms here

This is the best video ever.

Oh wow! it looks more than 80 mph man, probably close to 100 gusts.

@hellomate639

8 жыл бұрын

Probably. 80 mph is car on the highway speed. Stick your hand out the window and

That’s one hell of a big downpour

Yeah, there are quite a few films on youtube of that storm. I have to say from the videos that I have never seen a stronger thunderstorm than that! It must have had wind gusts over 115mph!

Here in Las Vegas during the summer months we get some great thunderstorms. I can't get enough of them. I've been close to some lightning strikes, they scare five shades of crap out of you. 😆 There's something special about a lightning storm in the desert.

Great footage

wow!! Been to Miami several times, and seen many a thunderstorm, and a few tornadoes, but never seen anything like that! It's terrifying how quickly flooding happens! having said that though, Florida is still my favorite place in the world!

Ye gods, that was the grand-daddy of all storms! I knew you got 'em bad in Florida, but I never would have thought on that magnitude.

@pietrovaldes Miami is prone to high intensity rainfall events, but this was definitely unusual. I think they recorded nine inches of rain in less than three hours.

Those are some wild storms in the Gulf.

I was in Miami in February of '98. The weather was nice then, but it was raining the morning that we left. With all the storms that you get down there, I don't think I want to live there.

we get some nasty storms in Indiana, but nothing like the south, TX, OK, MO, FL, all get big ones. I even remember the El reno, OK and Jopli, MO EF5's ... Scary! Be safe!!! At least you aren't like the people here where i live who play golf during lightning storms. Too many people die that way.

I was in Miami and Fort Lauderdale in February of '98. My brother was living in Fort Lauderdale at the time. It was raining the Monday morning that we left (my father, my other brother, and I). Thank God that we were safe inside the Fort Lauderdale airport terminal. I don't think I ever visit Florida again. It should be nicknamed the Stormy State. I couldn't take summer-like weather year-round down there. I'd rather have the change of seasons up here in PA.

@heatherstub

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the winter can get cold on certain days when a clipper comes down from Canada or if there's a polar vortex that blankets the Southeast with freezing weather. Alsoit rains from May through September, and the rest of the year is dry. This is why Florida can go from one extreme to another. It is terribly hot during the summer indeed, but I miss the greenery and especially the smell of all those Palm Trees, and the flowers are exceptional. We had a lot of trees in our yard including a coconut, grapefruit, lemon, lime and an orange tree, so we had a lot of fresh fruit and coconut.

Wow! The flooding was amazing! So much water in such a short time!

This is a heck of a storm.

good video.Great footage.

Nasty storm, reminds me of a storm we had here a couple of months back. Massive amounts of lightning but little in the way of rain. You can see how people reacted to such a minor storm (yes that is minor compared to what could come via a hurricane). Imagine how they would react to a decent sized hurricane? Are you prepared?

@CR7GOATofFootball

2 жыл бұрын

Miami gets lots of strong hurricanes.

This storm is a LEGEND!

Yep Florida is the lightning capital in the U.S. I love recording the storms that come threw central Florida every summer:)

Interesting there was so much damage and flooding. Everytime there's a storm there like this I RARELY see any damage

@nanlisa I agree,because those loud bits of thunder at 0:08 and 0:21 sounded like it blew up a whole building.

There are some "famous" pics that came from this storm, such as the one with the street kayaker at 8 Street, but a lesser known fact is that this event, while primarily a rain flood event, is tied to the tidal flooding of saltwater that happens every year, in the Fall. This rain fell just before a tide that was almost 3 feet MLLW. That has a lot to do with why the streets "wouldn't drain". Three feet / one meter MLLW just happens to be about the point where the sea level is about even with a lot of the western streets of south beach. As narrow and flat as the west half of SOBE is, less than a foot of rain shouldn't make several feet of water under normal circumstances.

@BitterBetty76

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Christensen what does MLLW stand for?

looks like a category 1 hurricane amazing

It rained like that right after the fireworks finished in downtown Miami a little bit ago

I lived on Miami beach 35 years and most of those years I can count on two hand if that for the number of storms we get they seem to favor the inland areas sea breeze fronts

What direction did this storm come from? I know down there they come from any direction from the sea breeze

Whoa, that area flooded quick! Crazy! How much damage was done in dollars?

@thepurplemonkeysrule

8 жыл бұрын

The reason Miami floods quickly is because we're surrounded by water and it's flat land. Usually whenever we have a thunderstorm we flood. Kendall and country walk is always on flood warning when it rains. Its quite nice. Personal pool

that was the category 1 hurricane that nobody prepared for! I would call that a disaster

Here in Milwaukee County we have had and do get some bad bad severe thunderstorms ! Love thunderstorms though if they are not too dangerous !

If I saw that kind of storm, I would be so scared!

@lincolnhunt9558

9 жыл бұрын

I would love it, probably cuz i'm from Phoenix AZ where a rainy day doesn't come very often. Saw about 3 nice rotating supercell storms last summer and it was great. It got worse than this though and the highways were under 5 feet of water.

@dapper_rose9347

9 жыл бұрын

Lincoln Hunt Oh geez!

@thepurplemonkeysrule

8 жыл бұрын

Lol, honestly you get used to it. Weve been having thunderstorms every night for the past month. Sometimes you'll be looking at the window and look down for a second then look back and it's pouring rain and you just shrug it off and say "what the heck"

@debpfleiger803

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

I did hear that thunder at 21, and believe me, it's sounds just like an explosion. I would have been scared to death.

Big Strong Thunderstorms With Strong Winds.

@kkloomis No one died. I think there was a lightning injury, but I'm not sure. The storm was very localized and only affected a small area.

Rainy season should be coming up pretty soon in my home region which means that when it starts raining, I could possibly chase some rainstorms by myself! For any long-lasting chases, I will only put together the best parts and upload them onto KZread as 1 video. At the beginning of the video I will show my supply situation.

@StormChaserMax Was your house flooded? Florida I call that state lightning alley. More than 100 thunderstorms strike that state every year.

Now thats alot of rain how inches did it rain that day and was this a tornato or does it rain always like this in miami

In Brazil it is difficult these storms happen when it happens but sometimes it's worse than this

Holy guacamole!!!! That was one truly apocalyptic storm if ever there was one! I know Floridians are inured to such weather, but that must've beaten them all.

How long did this storm last? I can't believe the damage from one event. Great video.

@MaximHawaii

6 жыл бұрын

Its been years but I think the main core with the torrential rain and winds lasted about 90 minutes. The storm cell was almost stationary.

That thunder at 10:49 was amazing! I think it's my favorite. At the beginning, it sounded like sheet lightning above you, but I couldn't tell, because I can only listen to these videos. If it wasn't sheet lightning, I'd be surprised. I'd be so grateful if you'd tell me, because I don't have anyone hear to tell me if I'm correct. It's okay, though, because I love storms, and I never stop learning about magnificent weather. Great work! Thank you so much for this refreshing upload. Heather

Pretty messed up when there are waves breaking *in the street* and the freaking beach is flooded....

Welp, there were some "great low-priced" used cars for sale after that.

Wow that lightning was pretty close

Sometimes SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS are capable of producing TORNADOES and all kinds of violent severe weather

100 lightning strikes within 2 square miles in a 5 minute period is a lot

Did the Cubans run for cover?

@gogglegoggles

8 жыл бұрын

lmao

@wormsicle It was just a Canon digital camera that had a video feature. Can't remember the make or model. Only cost me $120. Canon's seems to take the highest quality film among all the camera's under $150.

Florida storms are scary as hell, the lightening is so bad, that's why I moved...

That's the day before my birthday!

I'm getting hit by hurricane Irene with winds like this... Is there any uprooted trees or fa

80mph winds??? Holy crap. Are winds that speed equivalent to a Cat1 hurricane?

@heatherstub

8 жыл бұрын

Yup!

I live in Miami and this shit happens real often

That's so freaking cool!!!

conditions are like in a eyewall of a category 1 hurricane

@SeverePunch14 Yeah, it struck a building right across the street. And that was one of probably six or seven lightning strikes that hit within 100 yards of the building I was in.