Dan Whittaker

Storm Chaser 🌪️ Photojournalist 📸 🎥 Environmental Scientist 🔬 Capturing nature’s fury since 2008📍NC // Carolina Weather Group

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@225MPH_EF4 🤣

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@AdamLucioWX 👏👏👏

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@AdamLucioWX The best of times

[Jeff Boyce @Negative_Tilt]

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!

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@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!

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@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 😩

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

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

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.

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@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 🧐

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@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!

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

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

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

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@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!

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

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

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@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!

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@Sgt4188 Umm small favor 😅 can you find the hole in the road and take a picture for me? https://t.co/ME7IKkbggR

[Dan Whittaker @severeforecast]

@awaitingharpazo Lightning “beads” 😁

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

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

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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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@PalladianPD Underrated comment