Scare moment lightning strikes family’s car during thunderstorm [Watch]

A wild video, that is trending on social media , shows a family’s car suddenly struck by 

lightning while on a highway.

Posted by popular meteorology TikTok account @pattrn, the video—filmed by storm tracker Carl Hobi—shows cars in a torrential thunderstorm in Kansas.

Hobi, in the vehicle behind, films a bolt of lightning hitting a loaded SUV directly.



The video was covered by the Weather Channel, where they detail the strike frame by frame. Hobi told the cable outlet that a couple and three small children were inside but unharmed by the lightning.

However, in an interview with Newsweek, Hobi said the vehicle was rendered “dead and stuck in gear, and we could not get it in to [sic] neutral to push off the road. It will most likely be considered ‘totaled.’”

Upon another viewing of the 13-second video, the taillights suddenly dim down as the lightning fried the car’s electrical system.
Hobi told Newsweek of the family: “They were in shock, and the first thing they did was make sure the kids were ok, and they were relieved that everyone was just fine.”
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STORM TRACKER FOOTAGE CAUGHT LIGHTNING STRIKING AN SUV IN KANSAS  PIC.TWITTER.COM/LY8QZKAYGS

— THE WEATHER CHANNEL (@WEATHERCHANNEL) JUNE 29, 2021

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