Dan Whittaker

@225MPH_EF4 🤣

I do not understand how you could edit a video so poorly without using AI

@AdamLucioWX 👏👏👏

Took a baseball to the shoulder today lol I need one of those Cappucci hail helmets. Thanks Nick Busby for the clip 🤣

@AdamLucioWX The best of times

All this radar app stuff brings back feelings of nostalgia. 15 years ago, before all these apps it was TVN vs CTV vs SS. But regardless of who you chose back then, we all did it for a loss cause there was zero $ in streaming 😂 Good times.

Talk about most documented lol... Here's data from the Bolt Hunter @Healey_Photo was using at the time (in Night Mode). The brightest part of the return stroke lasted only 60 millionths of a second!

@Negative_Tilt @Healey_Photo Wow very interesting! 😅 good think I was filming at 120 fps at the very least. Wonder what was missed in the milliseconds!

@PappenheimWx Trying to hard to find a cloud solution to this for myself. Using multiple iPhones for standard b-roll was a good start so I can at least airdrop. I refuse to commit more actual years of myself to watching data transfers 😩

Transferring footage to external storage is my least favorite and time consuming task on this planet. Who can relate? lol

@AntiZ0G They thought I would be driving the speed limit instead of pulling over randomly to look at storms 🤣

One of the most documented lightning bolts? I captured this in 4K at 120 fps from inside my car just north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on 4/26. The strike was so close I felt gravel hit my arm, and moments later I saw the road on fire. Not long after, other storm chasers started reaching out about the bolt. I later got to see the same strike from the car behind me, captured by @300MphEF5, along with an incredible high-resolution photo from @Healey_Photo. This was from the same storm that produced the twin tornadoes near Foraker just before.

@shiv_cybersurg Kind of odd but strong strikes often seem to wander a few feet over from targets and hit at random. There’s probably a better reason out there. Maybe it found something metal underground 🧐

@severeforecast Spectacular. Wonder why it hit the road rather than all those electric poles on the side? Weird. Is there something about the road attracts lightning?

@realvalentin @fixnkev My starlink (roof mounted on my car) didn’t work right the rest of the night but seemed okay the next day. Not sure what that was about but otherwise all good!

@fixnkev @severeforecast Did it fry any appliances?

@snackbeam Still working on the after “daylight” picture with help from people who live around there!

@severeforecast Did it leave a cool mark on the ground?

@tornadopaigeyy @WxScholl The only creatures I keep as pets are spiders because they can survive my long times away from home! Highly recommend 🤣

@WxScholl I AM SO INCREDIBLY JEALOUS!!!! I love tarantulas. Ever since a guy brought one into our elementary school to show us 🥺

Intercepted this huge tarantula yesterday near the Carlsbad Caverns

@WxScholl Been trying to find one while chasing 😩 how fun!

@Sgt4188 That would be great 🙏 so far all we have is the video of the strike. Good pictures of the hole would be so helpful to put everything together!

@severeforecast I'll see if any of my family can. I don't live there anymore. But that's about two miles from where my grandmother lived.

@CinatitSMR A direct strike from this and I would have been on fire like the concrete 😅

@severeforecast this makes it even crazier that MOST people who get struck by lightning survive, estimated at only a 10% fatality rate granted most lightning strikes aren't direct strikes (the bolt ACTUALLY striking you), most are just from being close to where lightning strikes

@MaraDaiune Wow! That must have been loud 😅 I was inside of my house when I was little and the strike hit the front door and sounded like an explosion!

@severeforecast Unrelated but figured it'd be a good place to share. I was bus-shooting with a DSLR when I got this one. The bolt hit the building above me - what you see is a forced perspective as the grounding goes over my head. I'm sure I wasn't in danger at all!

@Sgt4188 Umm small favor 😅 can you find the hole in the road and take a picture for me? maps.google.com/?q=36.7534621,…

@severeforecast I'm from there. Can you give a better location?

@awaitingharpazo Lightning “beads” 😁

@severeforecast I have a legit question: What are the glowing, fiery things left as the light from the bolt start to subside that are still in the air?

@LOVE60509396 And saw my first live armadillo close up same night!

@LOVE60509396 This was just after I saw two tornadoes on the ground at the same time! Very lucky day

Here’s my closest radar image I saved (about 30 minutes before the strike). I was a little southwest of this spot when I filmed it and the storm was still tornado warned

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@severeforecast Good day to do 88 mph.