Watch: Huge thunderclap interrupts reporter's storm report

WFAA reporter Marie Saavedra was reporting in Addison when a clap of thunder took her by surprise.

[@ptnsmuls9393]

That thunder and lightning was like ''shut up and quit talking about us''

[@deseancurry8956]

😂😂😂😂😂 best comment ever

[@Charlie-B-Barkin]

@@deseancurry8956 needs more likes

[@marisatai1038]

Lol

[@jlo13800]

the energy density of positive lightning laughs at gas

[@scratchpad7954]

@@jlo13800YES! If only we had the technology to harness the electrical energy of lightning, it would be a heck of a fireworks show. By the time the bolt hit its target, more than 99% of the energy of the ka-chow would be lost to optical and acoustic output.

[@brandon23471]

"Hey Marie, we're going to need you to go stand outside in the lightning so we can alert people that it's raining outside."

[@natesullivanw24]

I’m a news photographer. Yep. I’m pretty sure news directors don’t know people have windows

[@Lorrdd]

Yes, because we don't have lightning towers, of rubber soled shoes or anything. And they give the field reporters no training on how to deal with dangerous situations. Do you see how stupid you sound?

[@Lorrdd]

@@natesullivanw24 ... no you're not. No photojournalist would ever refer to themselves as a "news photographer", which is not a real job.

[@natesullivanw24]

@Lorrdd Why would I lie about being a photog? Such a weird flex. Literally look at my photo

[@kirara2516]

the audio never does it full justice because the mic is overwhelmed by the ferocity of the boom.

[@Chat_existence]

Bro I can gage how deadly that sounded through that

[@arandominternetuser9099]

In a way it still does do it justice because it's so loud that you literally cannot hear any rain, any voices. You can't hear anything but the thunder.

[@BentleyTypeR]

The storm was like "I wanna be on the News!!"

[@215_Philly_4for4]

Legit sounded like a 16”/50 Cal from a naval war ship

[@stinka4079]

Lightening and gas pumps. Not the shelter of choice of you ask me. 😄😄

[@Nitegame]

FR😭😅😭

[@Jamezy316]

Its not her fault! She didnt ask to be born blonde.

[@joeysfather2723]

@@Jamezy316 true dat…

[@StunXPlayz]

⁠@@Jamezy316It’s the fault of the company

[@seashackf1]

Don’t forget the metal overhead shelter.

[@marknicholsaviationplanesp8840]

0:26 sounds like a gun

[@coal1235]

if your gun sounds like that you might wanna get a new one lmao

[@woodonfire7406]

If your gun sounds like that, then it's a 203mm cannon used in Battleships

[@socialistrepublicofslavist9853]

mans got a loudener on his .50 BMG

[@THECONTINENTALMAN]

nah, i'd keep it​@@coal1235

[@Unnerfed.Aeternus]

​@@woodonfire7406 more like 510mm

[@Stormsfury777]

Such a sound of monstrous beauty. The sharp single flash followed by the majestic boom

[@iceresistance]

That flash was at 0:22 and the boom was at 0:26. If you do the math on lightning to thunder, this was around a mile away

[@MrGriff305]

​@@iceresistance not sure what you were watching, but there were many flashes. Her reaction was as if it was very close.

[@iceresistance]

@@MrGriff305 I've done the math on the brightest flash, and then the BOOM.

[@MrGriff305]

@@iceresistance There is absolutely no way that lightning was a mile or anywhere near that distance. That's not what makes weather reporters jump and freak out. There were many flashes near simultaneous with the thunder. The lightning hit very close to them.

[@iceresistance]

@@MrGriff305 Yes, there is a way, it's from positive lightning strikes, and I know that based on experience, they are LOUD!

[@wdwtx2.0]

"Cue the lightning in 3...2...1." "That's a wrap."

[@KtotheG]

How do they not have a rule about being outside during lightning storms? Every other organization has that rule, but the news media?

[@lauraweiss7875]

There are thousands of unemployed pretty people ready to take her job if she gets hit by lightning, so the higher ups really don’t care.

[@Lorrdd]

"Every" organization? EMS won't go out in a lightning storm? Police? Firefighters? They have training dude, they know when it's safe and not. When was the last time you heard of a field reporter being killed by weather, be real.

[@abe_froman8360]

Stay safe, don't be an idiot and go out in a thunderstorm like I am right now.

[@ivancoley11]

That was a positive lightning strike

[@GenitalHogwarts]

Very unlikely. Positive lightning strikes are super rare, and almost always occur after the storm has passed

[@alt.o7942]

​@@GenitalHogwartsuntrue that was definitely a +CG

[@GenitalHogwarts]

@@alt.o7942 please tell the rest of the class how you came to that conclusion

[@alt.o7942]

​@GenitalHogwarts, if you know what negative bolts sound like, then that is not even close to what they sound like. Positive bolts also don't always occur at the back of the storms. Some storms contain an "inverted" tripole where almost all the CG strikes are positive. In this video, all the negative "flickering" strikes are intracloud.

[@GenitalHogwarts]

@@alt.o7942 again, explain exactly what the difference between what a negative and a positive bolt sounds like…

[@williamperryjr1324]

Whoa!!! That was too close for comfort!

[@Lorrdd]

Sound ≠ distance. Thunder is caused by the air that's burned away by a lightning bolt. Air rushes to fill that space, and the result of all that air crashing together at high speed over a long area is a BOOM. The larger the lightning bolt, the more air burned, the more air moves in to fill, the bigger the boom. I've had a bolt strike trees behind my house, and the schoolyard 100 yards away, it was about the same volume as a large bolt miles away. Only difference was the shrapnel from the tree that exploded due to all the moisture in the tree instantaneously being turned to steam, which takes up more space, and creates a pressure bomb, similar to the effects of Chernobyl reactor 4, when they tried to deactivate the reactor, all the control rods went in at once, and because the tips were graphite, which accelerates reactivity (heat), all the water in the reactor instantly turned to steam, locked all the rods in place, creating more reactivity, and the core's lid blew off like a pressure cooker, the larger, secondary explosion was air rushing into the reactor and the moment it hit superheated graphite... BOOM.

[@forgaven3346]

And the lightning... boooooom... Is so intense

[@BlueSky...]

"Please stay safe, unlike me."

[@hhhbbhbhb]

bro said “SILENCE”

[@torimig2151]

It was like I'll show you

[@singlifrpurr]

0:26 when mufasa is yelling at the hyenas

[@insanestorms5176]

You can see how close that was also

[@miroslavzima8856]

There is no shame in be affraid of this terrifying force. Two years ago there was terrible thunderstorm, but I was sick and slept like rock. Problem was, I had horses on pasture. Maybe 10 minutes by car. One loud thunder woke me and I bolted to get them to stable. And I was late. When I arrived, it was already dark and heavy rain. I had only to lead the horses 20 meters. But I was out of time. I never felt oppressed by a storm, it was like the darkness was alive and watching us. Then the strong wind came and also the lightning which were horizontal and way too close. You could almost smell the ozone. Luckily nothing happened, but I suffered mild trauma. I´ve done this several times in mild thunderstorms, but this time it was the weather said "I will let you go this time, but next time you won´t be so lucky". Since then whenever I didn´t like something and had bad gut feeling, I brought them to stable. To this day, I am not even close to the windows when bad thunderstorm is above me.

[@crazedvole]

That is how you know the storm is right over you. 🙂

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

"And the lightning-" Lightning: LOOK GARY THERE I AM.

[@hanks-dances-stuff]

0:26 was like the movement of your body when you get into a small car crash, but the airbags still deployed from the sound

[@MitchGaming381]

definitely a positive cg

[@iceresistance]

That thunderclap is from a positive strike, the thunder from those are LOUD!

[@torimig2151]

Verry loud we have that hear in Florida

[@catharsis222]

Highly intelligent to be in a gas station with conductive rain water in an electrical storm.

[@dennyfrontier]

shutting the fridge door at 2am:

[@singlifrpurr]

right

[@soundseeker63]

That sounded like a positive C/G strike. In person it will be x50 what the mic/speakers can convey. They literally sound like bombs going off they are so brutal!

[@astrofan1993]

My house once got hit by lightning. Actually just a few meters above my head. It sounded like a cannon going off. All I heard was a loud "POW!!!!" and everything went black. Then smoke started filling up the house, so we had to immediately evacuate. When the fire department came, they didn't see any evidence of a fire, and they couldn't find any hotspots with their thermal imaging camera. From what we later learned, the house did indeed catch fire, but it snuffed itself out before the fire department even got there. But we lost quite a few electronics in the strike, including a TV, a keyboard, a printer, our Nintendo Wii, as well as our cable, landline phones, and Internet. Even our garage door opener needed to be replaced.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I'm a big fan of surve protectors or if it's very valuable. A Fuhrman. That's part of a whole setup of stuff, like a sound system..

[@billthewhovian]

Lighting struck our aerial when I was a kid, it blew up the vcr. The tv, which it was connected to was fine and still runs the aerial, was also fine. The power blew moments later, we lost a couple of good fuses too that night. Funny the things you remember. I'm glad things worked out ok for you and your family. Bet the smoke scared the living daylights out of you.

[@astrofan1993]

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Yeah, I try to plug all of my electronic devices into a surge protector now if I can help it. I'd rather not lose another game system to a bolt of lightning.

[@astrofan1993]

@@billthewhovian It actually caused the cable box in my parents' bedroom to explode. It sprayed my father, who was in bed at the time watching TV, in a shower of sparks. We also had a cable splitter box in our laundry room down in our basement, which also exploded and scorched the concrete behind it. It even traveled up into the main line which serviced other houses (and was conveniently located in our backyard) and destroyed that, too. We later learned that cable is actually considered a "soft" line while electrical is considered a "hard" line, so it's easier for lightning to find ground through your cable than your electrical. My guess is the reason why the house didn't burn down was because it had so many diffusion points to find ground (not just the cable lines, but also a metal fence post next to the house), so it wasn't all concentrated into one path.

[@billthewhovian]

@astrofan1993 yeah your theory makes sense. If it was concentrated, it would have caused way more damage. If I remember correctly from my school days, if electricity has an exit point to ground out, it does less damage or as it appears here if it disperses it does less damage. I hope your Dad was ok I've never been in his situation but I have been a witness to a similar situation where the power lines across the road from where walking on my way to where I was working at the time, was doing what is known arking and sending sparks very close to a couple who were standing on there front porch when it started. They were both ok, but it scared them quite a bit. Luckily, the power company turned power off quickly and fixed it. Took them a good couple of hours to fix it as they had to replace the lines, apparently. The power was off still when I left work. We got very little done that day. Lucky for me, I only did an hour and a half on that day.

[@RoyalGambit00]

that was the sound of a lightning bolt hitting ground or something within couple hundred yards or lesss not thunder

[@aronpeter1486]

i can hear the difference between negative and positive lightning negative: rumble positive: boom + rumble once i've heard a 220 kA positive lightning

[@iceresistance]

I had one land an 1/6 of a mile to my south on April 19th, 2023 during the Central Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak, it sounded like a bomb exploded.

[@adminbob_]

@@iceresistancethis happened to me just 5 minutes ago, i saw a flash and thought maybe i imagined it or it was someone’s phone and then we heard the loudest thunder ever and it took a few minutes to realise it wasn’t a bomb. it was mainly shocking because the weather wasn’t even that bad at all.

[@JulianSirian]

We had that a couple of weeks ago in the UK... about a mile away from us... I called it a mini-fireball...

[@christopherkrause2577]

When you let it rip in the elevator😂😂

[@BigBrotherMateyka]

Handled it so sweetly and like a pro.

[@mindlessgonzo]

I can't count the number of times I pushed my luck thinking rain and storms were just far enough for me to squeeze a trip to the store and back without getting struck or wet.

[@alexandermurphy6384]

All that head bobbin and she couldn't weave herself away from that clap

[@crazycatlady39]

Thunder and Lightning be like “AND HERE WE ARE!!!!” ⛈️⚡️💥

[@ultraplayer4594]

God's humour lmaoo Striked as soon as she talked about the lightning!

[@jonathonwhitehurst5807]

She was so brave reporting out there in that awful weather and thunder

[@guineapiglady2841]

Not an awful weather.

[@BerryA86]

Positive lightning

[@GenitalHogwarts]

Negative lightning. Positive lightning only has one flash, negative lightning has multiple flashes. You can see a split second before the thunder multiple flashes. Besides, positive lightning is super rare, and most times occurs after the storm has passed.

[@sciencoking]

@@GenitalHogwarts Bro did you scroll all the way down the comment section to tell everyone you don't know how to recognize the polarity of a lightning strike?

[@GenitalHogwarts]

@@sciencoking ya, because there’s sooooo many comments to have to scroll through 🤣

[@brmadden895]

@@GenitalHogwarts Just curious, but where are you getting your information regarding positive vs negative CG lightning?

[@mrs.sherry]

There was hail. It was hitting my windows hard in East Dallas

[@GSM92]

i hope the green building downtown didnt get hit too hard

[@richardbrooks6464]

i think it's awesome how sometimes thunder can sound like someone firing a cannon from a pirate ship

[@darrenmiles-morland8038]

When that huge thunderclap sounded, that reporter seemed almost as stunned as what her fellow reporter Alex Bozarjian was when Thomas Callaway came up from behind and deceitfully smacked her bottom while he was running past her while Alex was doing a live report from a bridge during a running race that Thomas Callaway was participating in.

[@thorpizzle]

The funniest part is the fact that she said "lightning" right as the lightning came. A movie couldn't get it that close.

[@malpal5825]

"Sheltering myself with a large piece of sheet metal, I ran for cover under the tallest tree I could find!"

[@MakaiMauka]

Insane to be outdoors in that....

[@DurasigDoghouse_Cntr_9024]

What she actually said. And the lightning scares the s**t out of me IS SO INTENSE.

[@esmeraldakitty]

South Fort Worth had some hail but lots of lightning. I got a light show.

[@ironpea4748]

Incredible video and it sounds like gun going off

[@pat-9169]

we just experienced the loudest thunder clap and boom right now

[@Astrokit796_.]

Bro said an “AUHGJGHG”

[@steviebro0538]

Stay in the highly flammable station. It's risk free. You can find shelter there.

[@noonthumbs2644]

I know right 🤣🤣🤣 What a load of chumps.

[@pjmasks-Tamil-4422]

People sitting in AC rooms : hey come on why you are scared i didn't hear anything when that lighting came 💀

[@chrisofstars]

All living things have two natural fears, the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. There's no choice to feel otherwise.

[@charleslanphier8094]

"Wow, there's so much lightning here next to these gas pumps. Stay safe everyone."

[@YESiCAN_Bowl]

And the Lightning speaks for it selfs hahaha

[@livingstonesafrica3373]

Yeah 🤣

[@xxjayxx5708]

looks like someone angered the gods 😂

[@sforza209]

Bro, what’s with her head moving side to side when she talks?

[@ben-neon19]

Thunder be like going boom boom

[@Mejmet]

I'm sure that smooth channel lightning cause that !boom! sound

[@gunnii01]

300 K-Amps positiv Lightning ! Thats louuuud 🤣

[@Drachenjunges_85]

Can you tell me how strong the lightning was in kA?

[@andreiwindstorm]

Yes, 1.987.467,33 kA

[@thafff]

Did you forget your amp clamp for lightning bolts?

[@Ghosty893]

The thumbnail 💀

[@stormnick3775]

Wow.👍🏼

[@melissaferraro8258]

That means you're a star seed ❤

[@crownforce489]

I know that gas station, omg! I just moved to Addision!

[@SamusV4]

When Thor throws the glass on the floor

[@PCCphoenix]

0:25!!! "And the lightning..." > *BOOM!!!* < "...is SO INTENSE!" She can say THAT again!!! 😮

[@MrSebbysmith]

Now we're seeing... lightning!

[@hubertparks-bx9gj]

Sounded like a cannon

[@uhohhotdog]

0:26 for replay

[@Millie_is_insane]

Perfect timing

[@Greenpoloboy3]

0:25 is where its at.

[@jarrettebanks5020]

Yo that thunderclap sounds like an explosion

[@maxsotomayor3674]

THUNDERCLAP! YEAH!!⚡️0:26

[@B-17G_Flying_Fortress]

I always like to imagine Thunders sounded like a WW2 Battleship firing Its guns.

[@Yourlocalcat_21]

Its just a guy fighting demons

[@Light-Rock97]

For a human to be startled by lightning it must have been pretty strong.

[@livingstonesafrica3373]

A little bit less of a push of rain and the thunder...😵

[@singlifrpurr]

0:22 when mufasa is yelling at the hyenas

[@everlenaoliver6912]

That would have got me to, and love watching Lightning. 😂⛈⚡

[@joshs4594]

Sounded like a huge bomb. 💥

[@jasonprice9341]

Sonic boom thunder is what it is called!!!!! It does that at the end of a storm here in Kansas City Missouri!!!!

[@schnitzel2k3]

'Keep my name, outta yo mouth'

[@noonthumbs2644]

Who thought that standing next to a load of petrol pumps IN A THUNDERSTORM was a good idea?!! Jfc...

[@RobertJ-vo4bk]

Heh. Petrol.

[@karaokebackgroundplaylists9878]

0:22 CLOSE LIGHTNING STRIKE

[@thunderstormjoeyhaneypart3809]

That was awesome

[@jcalebeaton]

OK that was funny and the lightning then you hear a big boom is so intense

[@maxsotomayor3674]

Lightning is my Element!⚡️

[@julianaylor4351]

Olly from Family Guy, in real life. ⛈️😆

[@JacobDrosdick]

I don't think a gas station is the best place to be in a lightning storm 😂

[@samsonbadejo977]

Hope your okay this morning.

[@GSM92]

i hope youre okay

[@rutten739]

I hope yall ok

[@NygmaNL]

I hope im okay

[@stevesmith8854]

She's so cute!!

[@nagulope5733]

0:27

[@arandominternetuser9099]

I'd rather be in the open than near a soon-to-be-bomb, also known as a gas pump, lol.

[@iceresistance]

Except being in the open risks a direct hit from a lightning strike

[@alexandrawilson1998]

0:26 😱

[@David659-]

“And the lightning”……⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

[@ULAN-nc2uv]

Boom😮

[@LASQUAD51]

WHY DO NEWS PRODUCERS DO THIS STUPID STUFF???

[@user-oi4it8wy7i]

0:26 [ _____ ]

[@pomx2900]

" getting soaked here", not a single drop of rain on her hat or coat. 😂😂😂

[@electricsaiyan5783]

I was almost struck by lightning once it sounded like a bomb went off right beside me it was wild