Yesterday, here in mid Missouri, a thunderstorm woke me up from a nap. I checked the radar, and we were about to get hit by a red spot.
I stepped out on my front porch. It was lightly raining and I could hear thunder a ways off. As I stood there, I began to realize there was something strange about the thunder. Normally, lightning flashes and then there’s a peal of thunder, which sometimes dwindles off, but always comes to an end until the next flash of lightning.
But this thunder was not ending, and furthermore, I didn’t see any lightning flashes. It just kept rolling and rolling continuously, at about the same volume. After a couple of minutes of this, I started getting nervous and went back inside.
I kept my eye on the radar, and the red cell was moving right overhead. That continuous, ominous thunder was sounding louder. I started to wonder if that was the “freight train” sound people talk about when there’s a tornado.
I got down on my knees and started praying for myself and others as well. I stayed there, praying, until that thunder finally came to an end.
We got quite a downpour and what sounded like very small hail on my metal roof, but no damage. However, my mobile phone service went down and I was completely cut off for five hours.
When It came back up, I called my daughter and told her about the strange thunder. She said she heard the same thing, but it was north of them. She lives north of me, but the thunder was south and west.
Like me, she thought it was a tornado, but neither of us had tornadoes in our areas. (Thank God!) Someone on FB suggested it might have been the sound of large hail in the distance, but I haven’t heard of large hail in our necks of the woods, either.
Has anyone ever heard of continuous thunder like that before? It went on for around ten minutes.
Yes down in east Texas I remarked to my wife that a thunder rumble was continuing way beyond normal. I just guessed that it was a vortex that didn’t reach the ground. That happened about 10 days ago.
Thanks, Mystic. I made a note of that YouTube channel. Nothing going on it right now. I’ll check it out next time we get storms.
It could have been as you say, a twister that didn’t quite touch down. We had one at treetop level a year or so ago. I can’t dig any holes here. As someone kindly pointed out, I’m sitting on a pile of rocks. I couldn’t even bury my cat.
However, I sought God’s direction before I bought this place, so I trust in Him to take care of me here. But something will get every one of us sooner or later. I just wanted to be close to God if my time had come.
The one that came at treetop took out a huge tree that was leaning over my cabin. The center of it was rotten. The twister threw it down alongside my cabin. One big limb slid down the roof and landed in my driveway in front of the cabin, blocking me inside. My neighbor came over with his chainsaw to clear me a path.
We both made out on firewood with that one. Like Jack Sprat and his wife, lol. He took the big pieces, and I kept the smaller ones for my mini wood stove.
Deb tune into this channel during severe weather. A Kentucky neighbor with a huge storm chasing & radar network. Funny name, Ryan Hall, Y’all,
but seriously good at storm coverage live. Will be live & with you during the storm.
Here in Metcalfe County KY we got over 10″ of rain in 36 hrs. Some place much more. This is caused by Honga Tonga putting 30% extra water up top. Now it has cooled and it starts dumping on the
Whole Northern Hemisphere.
I’ve watched Ryan Hall many times over the last few years, he’s good but he doesn’t show the SO2 on Windy or solar activity which causes the SO2 so it’s incomplete coverage. There’s several other youtube weather jocks same thing, I also watch the Weather Channel and Weather Nation on network TV same thing no SO2, don’t know where the weather is from.
The continuous thunder was from a massive system covering a large area not just one cell of lightning. Many strikes were going on and the noise linked together both sides of the Mississippi I reported on here yesterday during the storm with a Weather Channel link.
180 million year old rainforest is incredible. The forest here has only been here since the ice sheet melted 10k years ago. there was 3000 feet of ice here above my house. Then it was a lake. Then it was 250 feet below sea level. The Olympic Mountains behind me were the Yellowstone hotspot island out in the Pacific Ocean and crashed into N America. 180 million year old rainforest existence is incredible.
Tell it to Molly.
It’s obviously her IQ that attracts. And undoubtedly a nubile young thing like her would be fascinated by the crackpot theories of a mad old fart like you.
I don’t know why a superior fellow like you would waste your time communicating with a wrinkled old crone sitting in a cracker box on a pile of rocks in BF MO.
Here’s a quotation for you to look up, Mr. Know-It-All. You may have heard it before. It begins, “Hell hath no fury…”
I watch YouTube on TV, there’s many channels I watch in many many catagories. Looking out the window here at my desk all I can see is my neighbor’s trees and bushes 30′ away, a wall of forest, can’t see past thirty feet. Very small patches of sky between 150′ tree tops. Drizzling out today a drippy day in the forest.
I’ve always wanted to go to Australia and NZ. Here’s the vid on Yellowstone hotspot Island crashing into N America and creating the NW Mountains and Vancouver Island BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUkgCKkWpc&t=2s
The only time I’ve heard continuous thunder like that is high up in the Pyrenees, at the time I thought it was just one thunder clap echoing around the cirque of mountains I was in and the next clap coming along before the echoes from the first one had died down. This was accompanied by lightning, I’m pretty sure the boulder I was sheltering under was struck by lightning, there was a brief blinding light followed by my vision going red for a couple of seconds and loads of static I could feel. It sounds scary but wasn’t, it was over so quickly I didn’t have time to be scared and realised that where I was provided a safe space to ride out the storm.
I finally Googled it. All I found was that other people have heard it, too. But all the explanations given seemed pretty lame, more like trying to “baffle you with BS”, lol.
Maybe there is more than one strange phenomenon with thunder, caused by different things.
I wouldn’t care to be that close to lightning,even if it didn’t hit you!
Deb, the only time i experienced, this was during a storm that produced a small tornado near my house. Was constant lightning and thunder, knew it was bad, we were in basement. Supercell
Yeah, I’ve been through a couple of those. Once it was straight line winds that took out my Mom’s apricot tree, and once I decided to hustle my four dogs up the street to my daughter’s basement but the twister jumped over us. The dogs, however, left muddy prints all over my daughter’s carpet and I was sweating it to get it cleaned up before she got home!
But there was no lightning with this one, just that constant thunder. Creepy!
We had several small EF0 tornados last nite here in Metcalfe County KY area. Hit the ground for a minute or so and lift up. Just trees AND power line, MAIN POWER LINE to Edmonton, was knocked down.. but no houses damaged or people hurt. Love ❤️our Tri County electric guys. Hope all are safe but dig ya a root cellar big enuf for 10 people…it will be used.
I live in central Alberta and we are running 4 to 6 degrees below normal which means recent frost warnings. The early dry start to the warm end of the year saw forest fires and evacuations with many predictions of another summer of smoke and catastrophe. Two weeks later there is not a twig burning in the province. We haven’t been able to cut the grass – endless rain or intermittent showers. Last year it didn’t get over 30 C more than twice. At least ew are heading into June above zero – not like last year where planting was delayed a month by freezing.
Locally there are a lot of dead birds – seems as if the bird flu is still around. The number of Canada geese on Lac Ste Anne last year was a tiny fraction of normal. There are hundreds of bodies on Bird Island. Nothing in the press about that.
Heating coal has gone from $11/ton 5 years ago to $195/ton because of forced closures and carbon taxes. And there is only one place to get it. Not kidding. 180 km from here. There is lots of other news but it is not fit to print. One is a pretty imaginative new bumper sticker related to the person behind the recent increase in the carbon tax.
It has been cold and rainy for the past few weeks on the high plains of Alberta. On the happy side, the Robin nesting beneath my balcony has no problem finding juicy worms in the soggy ground.
For those in tornado regions, please be safe.
I brought home four truckloads of firewood today. I got permission to cut logs next door for two loads all alder, maple and cherry good for smoking and bought two loads around the corner big Douglas fir rounds already cut and split in half for two hundred bucks. . I already had a new stack I just split last week from trees I had taken down last Fall now I have more than enough for next winter even if it snows every day till next July. Still have to do more cutting and splitting and stacking no hurry got all Summer to let it dry in the sun.
Hi – fascinating reading your comments. Glad no injuries.
Here in central eastern coast of Australia it is rather boring weatherwise – same old every day. Closest I came to your type of storm was inland of the coast many years ago – a hail storm in the distance – clouds a greenish grey and a roar like a train. Definitely glad not to be under it.
Perhaps better to have boring weather than having to shelter in a cellar.
ps cellars here are as scarce as caves – be very crowded when the world as we know it collapses under “climate change” policies.
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Major cyclone now hitting Bangladesh, heat off the Indian Ocean going up the river.
https://www.windy.com/-Clouds-clouds?clouds,23.349,90.740,7,i:pressure,m:eiFaiFx
https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,23.361,91.169,7,i:pressure,m:ekiaiFK
X2.9 solar flare showed there on the Global D layer map starting at 7 UTC
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/d-region-absorption-predictions-d-rap
https://solarham.com/pictures/2024/may27_2024_cor2.jpg
Same process as the cyclone going up the Mississippi River from heat from solar flares hitting our weak mag shield. Cloud tops were 57,000 feet yesterday heat rising off the Indian Ocean just like the Gulf of Mexico in the US storm.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/more-than-30-killed-and-over-1-million-evacuated-as-cyclone-remal-lashes-south-asia/1654382
82F now in Latvia and Estonia. 80F in Finland and NE Sweden!!
https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,62.423,33.465,5,i:pressure,m:fwEagOh
About time for some Greenland news again. Hopefully the Greenland ice sheet will bury the Eastern US.
Yesterday, here in mid Missouri, a thunderstorm woke me up from a nap. I checked the radar, and we were about to get hit by a red spot.
I stepped out on my front porch. It was lightly raining and I could hear thunder a ways off. As I stood there, I began to realize there was something strange about the thunder. Normally, lightning flashes and then there’s a peal of thunder, which sometimes dwindles off, but always comes to an end until the next flash of lightning.
But this thunder was not ending, and furthermore, I didn’t see any lightning flashes. It just kept rolling and rolling continuously, at about the same volume. After a couple of minutes of this, I started getting nervous and went back inside.
I kept my eye on the radar, and the red cell was moving right overhead. That continuous, ominous thunder was sounding louder. I started to wonder if that was the “freight train” sound people talk about when there’s a tornado.
I got down on my knees and started praying for myself and others as well. I stayed there, praying, until that thunder finally came to an end.
We got quite a downpour and what sounded like very small hail on my metal roof, but no damage. However, my mobile phone service went down and I was completely cut off for five hours.
When It came back up, I called my daughter and told her about the strange thunder. She said she heard the same thing, but it was north of them. She lives north of me, but the thunder was south and west.
Like me, she thought it was a tornado, but neither of us had tornadoes in our areas. (Thank God!) Someone on FB suggested it might have been the sound of large hail in the distance, but I haven’t heard of large hail in our necks of the woods, either.
Has anyone ever heard of continuous thunder like that before? It went on for around ten minutes.
Yes down in east Texas I remarked to my wife that a thunder rumble was continuing way beyond normal. I just guessed that it was a vortex that didn’t reach the ground. That happened about 10 days ago.
It might be a good time to start thinking about building A fraidy hole.
Thanks, Mystic. I made a note of that YouTube channel. Nothing going on it right now. I’ll check it out next time we get storms.
It could have been as you say, a twister that didn’t quite touch down. We had one at treetop level a year or so ago. I can’t dig any holes here. As someone kindly pointed out, I’m sitting on a pile of rocks. I couldn’t even bury my cat.
However, I sought God’s direction before I bought this place, so I trust in Him to take care of me here. But something will get every one of us sooner or later. I just wanted to be close to God if my time had come.
The one that came at treetop took out a huge tree that was leaning over my cabin. The center of it was rotten. The twister threw it down alongside my cabin. One big limb slid down the roof and landed in my driveway in front of the cabin, blocking me inside. My neighbor came over with his chainsaw to clear me a path.
We both made out on firewood with that one. Like Jack Sprat and his wife, lol. He took the big pieces, and I kept the smaller ones for my mini wood stove.
Deb tune into this channel during severe weather. A Kentucky neighbor with a huge storm chasing & radar network. Funny name, Ryan Hall, Y’all,
but seriously good at storm coverage live. Will be live & with you during the storm.
https://youtu.be/sEHMlfO-WC4?si=v-pjlzZ-xr7398Ix
Here in Metcalfe County KY we got over 10″ of rain in 36 hrs. Some place much more. This is caused by Honga Tonga putting 30% extra water up top. Now it has cooled and it starts dumping on the
Whole Northern Hemisphere.
I’ve watched Ryan Hall many times over the last few years, he’s good but he doesn’t show the SO2 on Windy or solar activity which causes the SO2 so it’s incomplete coverage. There’s several other youtube weather jocks same thing, I also watch the Weather Channel and Weather Nation on network TV same thing no SO2, don’t know where the weather is from.
The continuous thunder was from a massive system covering a large area not just one cell of lightning. Many strikes were going on and the noise linked together both sides of the Mississippi I reported on here yesterday during the storm with a Weather Channel link.
I wonder if Molly knows where the weather comes from? Maybe you ought to clue her in.
https://youtu.be/3XrccNMVE88?si=GddyBIDjPty6OZZi
180 million year old rainforest is incredible. The forest here has only been here since the ice sheet melted 10k years ago. there was 3000 feet of ice here above my house. Then it was a lake. Then it was 250 feet below sea level. The Olympic Mountains behind me were the Yellowstone hotspot island out in the Pacific Ocean and crashed into N America. 180 million year old rainforest existence is incredible.
Tell it to Molly.
It’s obviously her IQ that attracts. And undoubtedly a nubile young thing like her would be fascinated by the crackpot theories of a mad old fart like you.
Dirk the J-
I don’t know why a superior fellow like you would waste your time communicating with a wrinkled old crone sitting in a cracker box on a pile of rocks in BF MO.
Here’s a quotation for you to look up, Mr. Know-It-All. You may have heard it before. It begins, “Hell hath no fury…”
Believe it, Buster!
I watch YouTube on TV, there’s many channels I watch in many many catagories. Looking out the window here at my desk all I can see is my neighbor’s trees and bushes 30′ away, a wall of forest, can’t see past thirty feet. Very small patches of sky between 150′ tree tops. Drizzling out today a drippy day in the forest.
I’ve always wanted to go to Australia and NZ. Here’s the vid on Yellowstone hotspot Island crashing into N America and creating the NW Mountains and Vancouver Island BC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUkgCKkWpc&t=2s
No doubt you are one of those guys who buys Playboy strictly for the articles.
The only time I’ve heard continuous thunder like that is high up in the Pyrenees, at the time I thought it was just one thunder clap echoing around the cirque of mountains I was in and the next clap coming along before the echoes from the first one had died down. This was accompanied by lightning, I’m pretty sure the boulder I was sheltering under was struck by lightning, there was a brief blinding light followed by my vision going red for a couple of seconds and loads of static I could feel. It sounds scary but wasn’t, it was over so quickly I didn’t have time to be scared and realised that where I was provided a safe space to ride out the storm.
I finally Googled it. All I found was that other people have heard it, too. But all the explanations given seemed pretty lame, more like trying to “baffle you with BS”, lol.
Maybe there is more than one strange phenomenon with thunder, caused by different things.
I wouldn’t care to be that close to lightning,even if it didn’t hit you!
Deb, the only time i experienced, this was during a storm that produced a small tornado near my house. Was constant lightning and thunder, knew it was bad, we were in basement. Supercell
Yeah, I’ve been through a couple of those. Once it was straight line winds that took out my Mom’s apricot tree, and once I decided to hustle my four dogs up the street to my daughter’s basement but the twister jumped over us. The dogs, however, left muddy prints all over my daughter’s carpet and I was sweating it to get it cleaned up before she got home!
But there was no lightning with this one, just that constant thunder. Creepy!
We had several small EF0 tornados last nite here in Metcalfe County KY area. Hit the ground for a minute or so and lift up. Just trees AND power line, MAIN POWER LINE to Edmonton, was knocked down.. but no houses damaged or people hurt. Love ❤️our Tri County electric guys. Hope all are safe but dig ya a root cellar big enuf for 10 people…it will be used.
I live in central Alberta and we are running 4 to 6 degrees below normal which means recent frost warnings. The early dry start to the warm end of the year saw forest fires and evacuations with many predictions of another summer of smoke and catastrophe. Two weeks later there is not a twig burning in the province. We haven’t been able to cut the grass – endless rain or intermittent showers. Last year it didn’t get over 30 C more than twice. At least ew are heading into June above zero – not like last year where planting was delayed a month by freezing.
Locally there are a lot of dead birds – seems as if the bird flu is still around. The number of Canada geese on Lac Ste Anne last year was a tiny fraction of normal. There are hundreds of bodies on Bird Island. Nothing in the press about that.
Heating coal has gone from $11/ton 5 years ago to $195/ton because of forced closures and carbon taxes. And there is only one place to get it. Not kidding. 180 km from here. There is lots of other news but it is not fit to print. One is a pretty imaginative new bumper sticker related to the person behind the recent increase in the carbon tax.
Continuous thunder like that is due to lightning high up in the clouds so that the flash is hiddend by lower level clouds. Uncommon but normal.
Thank you! An answer with the ring of truth.
These are cloud to cloud discharges rather than cloud to ground so the energy just gets cycled around rather than lost to Earth.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hailstorm-covers-mexican-city-thick-215851243.html
get ready, north africa and western alaska the only plave going to be livable for planting crops untill 2040
It has been cold and rainy for the past few weeks on the high plains of Alberta. On the happy side, the Robin nesting beneath my balcony has no problem finding juicy worms in the soggy ground.
For those in tornado regions, please be safe.
I brought home four truckloads of firewood today. I got permission to cut logs next door for two loads all alder, maple and cherry good for smoking and bought two loads around the corner big Douglas fir rounds already cut and split in half for two hundred bucks. . I already had a new stack I just split last week from trees I had taken down last Fall now I have more than enough for next winter even if it snows every day till next July. Still have to do more cutting and splitting and stacking no hurry got all Summer to let it dry in the sun.
Hi – fascinating reading your comments. Glad no injuries.
Here in central eastern coast of Australia it is rather boring weatherwise – same old every day. Closest I came to your type of storm was inland of the coast many years ago – a hail storm in the distance – clouds a greenish grey and a roar like a train. Definitely glad not to be under it.
Perhaps better to have boring weather than having to shelter in a cellar.
ps cellars here are as scarce as caves – be very crowded when the world as we know it collapses under “climate change” policies.
Trevor