Tulsa, Oklahoma Derecho storm with 100mph straight-line wind 12:30am 6/18/23

Late night storm with 100mph wind in Tulsa, Oklahoma causing massive damage and hundreds without electricity. @GovStitt nowhere to be found.
Lost power for two days and a half with 90+ temperature. Plenty of people still without power. Tulsa won't forget this fathers day!
A derecho is a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms. Although a derecho can produce destruction similar to the strength of tornadoes, the damage typically is directed in one direction along a relatively straight swath. As a result, the term "straight-line wind damage" sometimes is used to describe derecho damage. By definition, if the wind damage swath extends more than 240 miles (about 400 kilometers) and includes wind gusts of at least 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater along most of its length, then the event may be classified as a derecho.
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[@jeffzebert4982]

You KNOW that it's a "This is gonna suck!" moment when the tornado sirens in your city or town start blaring to warn about straight-line winds rather than a tornado! A tornado tends to cause LOCALIZED damage to a city or town, whereas a derecho tends to cause WIDESPREAD damage, resulting in many trees down throughout the city or town, and the power being out for the whole place. This is really borne out when a tornado or a derecho occurs at night. With a tornado, you see power flashes erupt within a fairly narrow area. With a derecho, you see power flashes erupt from horizon to horizon.

[@OwnedByACatNamedC.C.]

…and the biggest difference is that a tornado usually passes by within minutes but the powerful straight line winds of a derecho don’t let up for as long as an hour or more. That’s why they’re also known as “land hurricanes”.

[@stormchasingal]

Hello, jenks gal here…this went on until 4am ! My radio didnt stop until 4. We were in the closet with my daughter, cat, ipad watching tornado Payne and wx radio lived here whole life never ever seen a June like this!!!

[@13_cmi]

I don’t know if this thing even made the derecho qualifications. But it was definitely a nasty nasty storm. It was surprisingly pretty from my viewpoint. But the trees definitely don’t agree on that.

[@johnpolhamus9041]

I mean...how many disasters does it take for people to stop tempting fate? lol!!

[@aldito7586]

I don't care what I have to do. But if I'm living in the mid-west USA I'm having an under ground safety place!

[@marcosishes]

With the PS5 and everything 💀

[@NoName-qs6ei]

We didn't have time to even get to it with this storm.

[@richeyrich]

very scary, but I love the adrenalin rush from the roar of high winds. very good video!

[@-108-]

Nuthin' like the adrenaline rush from the roar of high winds! "Here come those Santa Anna Winds Again..."

[@EBard1224]

I absolutely LOVE this!!! I hope you are okay, & no trees fell.

[@ekr6]

Tree limbs breaking off in the backyard almost hitting the dog. Patio getting torn apart and flying into neighbors yard. Little damage to the roof. Other than that all is well.

[@lilblackduc7312]

@@ekr6 I hate this kind of storm with the lightening flashing like old camera flashbulbs. Worse, when the thunder sounds lid a big metal door slamming down a long hall. In Georgia when we get this weather, especially in the middle of the night, I remember Psalm 91 from the Holy Bible. That always gets me through.

[@tracyraback7005]

Wow that's a powerful windstorm and rainstorm!😱

[@LinkDragon512]

There's something so eerie about there being so much wind that you can barely hear thunder. I went through Hurricane Ian and at one point there was a really close lightning strike but I could barely hear it and I only heard the crackling of it and no bass.

[@mississippisnowplow]

That’s because it’s very rare to have thunder in a hurricane. Count yourself lucky, because you also rarely have lightning in a hurricane as well.

[@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL]

Wind = white noise. It produces a sound of a lot of frequencies which is why you hear no big bass from a lightning strike and just crackling. Also is the same reason it would be harder to hear sirens, although both lightning strikes and the sirens are way louder than this kind of wind. If you listen close you can hear the distant sirens over the wind even when it is the strongest

[@heroknaderi]

Wow that’s a Derecho. Very cool footage 😊

[@flaw885]

Great video of mother nature! Reminds me of the opening scene from Twister. Constant lightning in the dark sky. I can even hear a couple of growls in there! Thunbs up if you know what i mean!!! Good stuff.

[@StormChaserMaci.]

Big bad derecho!!! This one slammed Tulsa OK with sustained winds of 85mph & gusts of 100mph in the worst areas. Not a storm to F with!

[@ktomsen8528]

DANIEL, THANK YOU FOR DOCUMENTING THIS DERECHO WIND EVENT.

[@brentwarner9349]

I could fall asleep listening to this lol.

[@howardparker9273]

Daniel….great job! This is the best I have seen so far that truly showed the power of this event! It was like a constant ef2 nado…

[@SKC193]

I looked out my window & saw the trees swaying almost to the ground! (We live in an old neighborhood with huge trees). My sister was driving back from Kansas, about a mile from home she came across an overturned car that had just happened. Nearly lost my car from a bad windstorm several years ago. A huge limb fell through the back windshield. Then a few years after that we had a the terrible ice storm & it was destroyed by that completely! Tree fell on it! I really loved that car!🫣😢

[@whitelion1111]

What dandy of s storm, and rarety indeed for Tulsa, uh how many times this have we missed all the action? 15-20 times? Not this time

[@ericsoucie1804]

Fun Fact: There has been a cold wall that stopped the big storms down south from going into the USA but now that wall of coldness is gone. So weather in the USA is gonna be going way up in severiority & consistency. I saw a footage thing showing a storm moving across the USA and hitting basically everywhere but Maine. So I am glad I live in Maine. I can't wait to see Florida's reaction to this change in weather...😀😃😄😁😆😆😆😆😆 (The emoji's are meant to show a mischives grin growing then staying as a mischievis grin.)

[@tararockrevivalbebe6427]

What an awesome video! Most eerie are them sirens in the background! Wow very cool! Thank you for sharing!

[@BobbyGulleyYoutuber]

Wow! This is great footage! This storm was insane! I did my own recording of it and posted it on my channel. I walked back to the hotel when I saw those power flashes and then me and my Dad ran back into the hotel room when those strong winds hit. LOL! It was definitely one of the craziest storms I ever witnessed, alongside the March 30, 2016 Owasso Tornado. Everytime I hear those sirens, I know I'm gonna be in for a bad storm or worse, a tornado!

[@starguard4122]

Thank you for making this video for us

[@severestormhungary4641]

Great video😃👍Beautiful storm👍+1 sub

[@user-qg1vc1fs8l]

Holy storm if I was there I'd hide😮

[@bulletman124XXL]

Some scary stuff, I drive semi and get caught in this down in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma Arkansas Iowa ect some scary stuff at times wake up the whole truck is shaking. This storm here looks scary, you can hear the whistling in the wind and the roar. Dangerous and scary. Oh especially these late night ones.

[@jeffzebert4982]

If it weren't for railroads, then the low roar of destructive winds, whether from derechos, tornadoes, or hurricanes, might be compared to the following phenomena that also make low-pitched roars: Waterfall Forest Fire (or just about any other wildfire such as a prairie fire) Explosive Volcanic Eruption (i.e., "Plinian" eruption) Tsunami

[@swithinbarclay4797]

And those with a Naval bent have likened the windstorm, with a HOT sortie, being on an aircraft carrier's flight deck, each jet making ear-splitting roars, one after another as they rev up and are shot off by the catapults.

[@ritarichardson3881]

Im sorry Oklahoma. Wishing you love.

[@stormchasingal]

Thank you i think we all have power back on now.

[@wardaddy6002]

They're used to it.

[@jerrycote659]

WTF! That is insane? I’ve never seen or experienced a thunderstorm like that. I didn’t even know they could be that strong actually. Living in Southern California we don’t get storms like this. This is some serious shit! How often do storms that powerful happen and do you known when a storm is approaching, how strong it’s going to be?

[@ekr6]

This is a pretty rare storm. I was using this www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps?type=radar . Multiple Wireless Emergency Alerts was blowing up the cellphone nonstop and sirens going off, so you know it was serious. Did not know how strong it will be, only to expect 90+mph wind and rain.

[@BrianHolzheimer-mg4qt]

Just a baby 🍼 thunder ⛈️ Storm coming through 🦄🌷🌪️🌹🍼⛈️

[@brettjames7996]

Love storms

[@Oklahomaaviationshorts1123]

What are the Odds that I Came Across this video at 12:30pm exactly Also I’m from Tulsa

[@peterbathum2775]

thanks. dude be safe

[@donaldschafer8317]

Ok I've seen this kind of storm many times! And nobody has been able to tell me why: in these kinds of storms how do you get a contestant flicker of lightning?? But noooo thunder??? It's just baffled me! 😮

[@dsmith8859]

It's because of the the wind speed and that lightning is in the clouds so the sound is just carrying with the clouds

[@CaptainKirk007]

That was one of the most intense storms I’ve ever witnessed. Lost power for 72 hours and the storm only lasted maybe 20 minutes at the most.

[@michaelrivera4299]

Yeah bro I understand, them super cell stroms been hitting random places in the U.S. I'm from Houston had a storm that hit for like 45 seconds like this, and then went away, blow down our neighborhood fences down, no power during the day with them 100 temp afterwards

[@dsmith8859]

We had a derecho storm here In Iowa a couple of years ago it lasted about 45 minutes and we were out of power for a week and a half

[@grettagrids]

I. Thought it was a tornado right. Over. My apartment. And kinda freaked. Out.. made a weird whistling. Vibrating noise i never heard before.

[@Bbendfender]

I heard about this storm from a friend who lives in Tulsa. Quite a storm.

[@Djlittle457]

I get the chills when I hear the tornado sirens start screaming.

[@alissaburge6375]

This storm packs with tornadoes in Oklahoma leaves a path of destruction when twisters 🌪️ touched the ground during thunderstorms with 100 mile of straight winds hit. The tornado sirens are blasting when there are tornadoes are touching down with the 100 mile per winds of the thunderstorm warnings.

[@KylieMedina-uy1qu]

@DanielV I was there going through that with ya I was a neighboring state, Muskogee, it got to me right after you, I remember the night that it hit, my uber eats order showed up at the peak of the storm, looking at it now, it was kinda hilarious.

[@stormdrone1313]

You were definitely brave than me!! I wasn't going outside!!

[@cassietroyer1195]

Omg! What a narly crazy storm! Looks tornadic. It reminds me of the storm last summer in Ohio, was in in Holmes county.. we had two nasty crazy storms go through. The first one hit at midnight, the tornado 🌪 sirens went off but, was not a tornado in my area. We had 80-90 mph winds, with gusts up to 94 continuously.. that was very scary and never been through these wind storms before.. this video looked oddly close to the one i have been through.. land hurricanes 🌀 are extremely scary and dangerous, may even be worse then a tornado. The area that was hit lost power for about a week.. whether the sirens were warning us about a tornado or the winds, crazy thunderstorm event. Your video certainly gave me the heebee jebbies and adrenaline rush.. another thing, this is in tornado alley, Ohio is not tornado alley.. we get some bad weather though.

[@tazersqueak-squeak8906]

I can't tell if all the rapid flashing is power flashes or lightning. Being in one of these at night sounds very terrifying! Im glad you're okay.

[@dianacallicott4092]

So glad I don't live there anymore. Don't miss the violent weather.

[@TheTimo5494]

That was a night to remember for sure

[@jasonbaconwolf7435]

I remember this storm it did scare me a bit this kind of weather happens once every other year or less I’ve lived in Tulsa my whole life never seen a storm like this

[@Northerncalwolf]

These storms are nothing to mess around with. Derechos are frightening beasts.

[@lilblackduc7312]

Great job documenting a violent event!

[@narijoon1568]

I like my storms windy with a side of awesome!

[@midnightgamer4507]

I legit thought i was gonna die when this rolled through. Never been so scared in my life.

[@user-kr1nx8km8g]

I would be scared of this storm 😮

[@ekr6]

You definitely would. I wanted to go to the street and record instead. But it felt like I'm going to get impaled by a flying object if I did.

[@supererikman5331]

You know its about to get real when you see green and blue flashes in the sky

[@Bricameron]

Amazing footage. I just wish you weren’t moving around so much!

[@degrader4173]

eerie is heck

[@JAYCEHERNANDEZ-qp1og]

That is a Derecho. Inland hurricane 🌀

[@hudsonbrimner4464]

What location is this?

[@ekr6]

Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[@anxiousmars4777]

😮

[@user-qg1vc1fs8l]

How long did this last was anyone hurt what causes storms like that?

[@ekr6]

Just for a couple minutes or so. I cannot recall if anyone got hurt. None in my family. But people did lose power for 1 week and a lot longer than that in 90F temperatures and widespread damage. It all has to do with something called a downburst. When the wet air in a thunderstorm meets the drier air surrounding it, the water in the air evaporates. When water evaporates, it cools the air around it. Since the cool air is denser, it rapidly sinks to the ground and creates strong winds called downbursts. Derecho development is necessarily tied to the formation of bow echoes. A bow echo usually arises from a cluster of thunderstorms, but also may evolve from a single strong storm. Bow echoes most frequently occur when atmospheric winds are relatively strong and unidirectional (i.e., they vary little in direction with height but increase in speed). As the rain-cooled downdraft of a thunderstorm reaches the earth's surface, it spreads horizontally, most rapidly in the direction of the mean atmospheric flow. As the cool, dense air spreads outward, it forces the lighter, warm and moist air surrounding the storm up along the leading edge of the outflow, or gust front. Gust fronts often are marked by a band of ominous, low clouds known as "arcus." The rain produced by the newer storms reinforces the cold pool, strengthening the inflow of air from the back side of the developing storm complex and encouraging the downward transport of higher momentum winds from aloft. These processes can enable the system to attain a nearly steady-state condition. This increases the longevity and strength of the entire system and is what allows the storm to travel such a large area over a short amount of time. At this point, the convective system typically exhibits a pronounced bow shape on radar. As the thunderstorms continue to increase in coverage, even more rain-cooled air reinforces the cold pool. The line of storms continue to accelerate either as one large bow echo or multiple smaller bow echoes within an overall line. At this point, widespread and persistent wind damage has been occurring for a prolonged period of time. - www.weather.gov/lmk/derecho

[@bunny_smith]

I hate summer.

[@SKC193]

“If man didn’t exist, then mankind would find it necessary to invent him”-

[@justinmennecke1293]

Was this a tornado or just a Windstorm

[@StormChaserMaci.]

Derecho! It's basically a land hurricane. These storms are serious business & lack sustained winds starting at 70mph to 100mph. These are not the kind of storm to f with.

[@justinmennecke1293]

@@StormChaserMaci. can Erie Pennsylvania get these Kind of storms

[@StormChaserMaci.]

@@justinmennecke1293 No state is immune to these except maybe California or the far NNE.

[@Jay-qb9gi]

@@justinmennecke1293it’s rare but there is a good chance that over the next few days you might get one

[@PizzaDelivery4uProductions]

No tornadoes don’t have long lasting wind events. They don’t have big wind fields around the tornado to make it last 10 minutes. If you close by a tornado it will be calm. If your super close only 100 - 200 feet. Then your in trouble.

[@user-xb9wi3vi8t]

Id rather have a tornado its over faster and does less damage as a whole

[@SKC193]

I was born & raised in Oklahoma. Tornadoes don’t bother me much but those straight line winds are scary!

[@waldemarrodriguezdenis1001]

Those winds were not even close to a 100mph lol that was probably like 50 mph

[@mikewilliams1424]

No 100 mph winds 🤷🤷

[@leesweather9894]

The atmosphere scouring out Trumpism. Great video.

[@stormchasingal]

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[@studleydewrite2942]

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[@leesweather9894]

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[@bunny_smith]

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[@boopshanaa]

“100mph winds” 🤡