#lightning #slowmotion
Lightning strikes from two separate events. The first event was intense elevated convection that developed in a steep lapse rate/high MUCAPE environment. These tend to be hail producers-- I was inside 4 hail cores in a couple hour timespan. Downburst winds and even a tornado were also observed. These storms had anomalous charge structures and produced primarly positive cloud-to-ground flashes. The second event was evening crapvection with lightning mostly obscured by heavy rain... though some stratiform lightning was barely visible as these storms managed to grow upscale into a weak MCS.
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Lightning information provided by Vaisala's National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) through weather.us/lightning. Note that I only use this information to roughly estimate stroke intensity and distance, the data may be prone to error on my end and my work is not, and should not be considered to be, a formal evaluation of the NLDN's performance.
Thanks to Tom A. Warner and other lightning physicists and researchers who have helped me understand lightning processes explained in my videos. Tom has created a great resource for individuals interested in learning how lightning works.
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