Possible derecho expected

Ya, it looked the video was speeded up.

 

I believe the video was set on time lapse. It appears to be running in double speed. Even so, the movement of the storm system is impressive. Man, I wish I was in the upper MidWest tonight! I'd be getting my s*** ready to grab some photos! It looks like a very interesting storm...I'm bummed I'll miss it.

 

Impressive is an understatement!!!! Like yourself, I sorta get off on weather phenomena. Years ago, a friend and I were seriously thinking of heading to a hurricane, not away.

Tornado's are impressive as well. The only bad thing is the destruction and loss of life they both can leave behind.

 

I've been in a hurricane. Of course, in Asia, they call it a typhoon, but same difference. I was on the island of Okinawa in 1982 and 83 and went through Typhoon Forest. The eye went over the middle of the island. It's kind of eerie to be in the middle where it's calm and look all around you and see nothing but nasty dark clouds. While hurricanes and typhoons are impressive storms, they are really nothing but a lot of wind and rain...just on a large scale. Multiply the Northwest by about 10-fold and you have a hurricane.

I saw three waterspouts off the Zukeran Point once, too...everything got really quiet and they just formed seemingly out of the clear blue. Two of them merged and then, after another minute or so, the third merged with the other two...another minute and they were gone. All that was left of them was the water hanging in mid air before it all splashed back into the sea. All I could do was stand there and stare like a slack-jawed Neanderthal.

But this derecho.....man, I'd love to see this...

 

I need to get my old VHS taped hurricane stuff converted and posted to the net. I used to be big time into 'hurricane chasing', living in FL is perfect for a severe weather fan.

 

Please do!

 

I might of been caught in one of those yesterday in western Kansas. I pulled off the road because it was so bad, but I was sideways to the wind and empty as well!
At one point it lifted my trailer tandems off the ground and I think my tractor's as well. I thought I was going over. It rained so hard, I couldn't see 50 feet in front of me. Then it calmed down, I changed my shorts and was about to proceed when I saw a flatbed parked about 100 feet in front of me! He had pulled over too, but it had been raining so hard, I couldn't see him!

 

few miles below I-80 on I-57 there was a big truck blown over on each side of the intestate pretty much parallel to each other

 

I have a friend on the road right now who left Michigan a while ago headed down I-75 through Ohio. He got a little spooked a couple of times because the wind almost pushed him into the Jersey barrier in Michigan, then he had a calm, dry area (probably the inside of the bow) and then hit the squall line again...said it blew his trailer over a lane and a half when it hit.

And today, I was westbound on I-20 just west of Louisiana in Texas and hit a couple of really quick thunder storms. I was about 100 or so yards from a bridge that has a tree growing on each side of it. As I approached, a lightning bolt hit first the one on the right and then, while that one was still striking, the tree on the left. For a split second, you could see a lightning bolt at each end of the bridge at the same time. THAT was f***'n COOL!!!

About ten miles down the road and into the second storm, the wind was blowing like crazy and then it suddenly went calm....dead calm....but still raining. There was an area about 150 yards across where you could see in the rain a slow rotation...only about 5-10 mph, but enough to get my attention and urge me to move on....quickly. I can't say it organized into anything significant, but I didn't want to stick around and find out...considering I drove through the vortex of that slow rotation.