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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[jeffzebert]

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.

[aldito]

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!

[richeyrich]

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

[EBard]

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

[LinkDragon]

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.

[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!

[tracyraback]

Wow that's a powerful windstorm and rainstorm!😱

[brentwarner]

I could fall asleep listening to this lol.

[ktomsen]

DANIEL, THANK YOU FOR DOCUMENTING THIS DERECHO WIND EVENT.

[heroknaderi]

Wow that’s a Derecho. Very cool footage 😊

[ericsoucie]

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...😀😃😄😁😆😆😆😆😆
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[howardparker]

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…

[BrianHolzheimer-mgqt]

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

[starguard]

Thank you for making this video for us

[SKC]

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!🫣😢

[tararockrevivalbebe]

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

[whitelion]

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

[flaw]

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.

[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!

[bulletmanXXL]

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.