Outro Music: Kevin MacLeod "Phantom From Space"
I decided to bring back one of my favorites, this time with never-before-seen video of another storm.
On June 14, 2015, clusters of strong thunderstorms were moving east across the Great Lakes region ahead of a powerful gust front.
5:15 PM: The first thunderstorm hit, producing a wall of heavy rain. The storm started to produce lightning strikes that were soon enveloped in the rain and only appeared as flashes. I stopped filming as the storm got too close.
After this I made a huge mistake: I stopped paying attention to the weather, ruining my chances of seeing a jaw-dropping display of cloud-to-ground lightning.
At 5:51 PM, the gust front hit, and I was completely oblivious until I heard a loud crack of thunder. I let my camera roll out my bedroom window and captured three powerful lightning bolts. There were many other flashes, some within the rain, others from bolts striking behind me. The lightning slithered to the ground underneath a large shelf cloud ahead of a blue-green curtain of heavy rain. Soon the rain overtook me and the bolts were no longer visible.
At 6:18 PM, the storm was passing. Faint thunder could be heard behind me. All over town, ambulance and firetruck sirens were blaring as many objects in the area were struck by lightning. Electricity was temporarily knocked out.
6:51 PM: a new thunderstorm was approaching. This storm produced infrequent lightning and beautiful rain curtains that pushed against each other as the storm moved northeast toward me. Again, we were overtaken by heavy rain.
7:55 PM: A new storm approached from the west, producing a small shelf cloud and frequent flashes of lightning. As the storm approached and revealed its black underbelly behind the tiny shelf cloud, the flashes became nearly constant and the thunder grew louder. Soon, heavy rain poured down again.
At 8:12 PM, the storm had completely overtaken us, still producing bright and nearly constant lightning flashes, along with rain and high winds.
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