# NCL-062907A - Close Lightning Strike
Date filmed: June 29, 2007 Location: Willow Springs, North Carolina Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: A startlingly close lightning strike rips through the air above a rural field near Raleigh, North Carolina, with a deafening crash of thunder. Preview clip, 694KB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-070406A - Close-Up of Lightning Striking Antenna 1
Date filmed: July 4, 2006 Location: St. Albans, West Virginia Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: Three camera views (wide, telephoto and extreme telephoto) yield extremely detailed, close-up shots of three spectacular lightning bolts directly striking the antenna of a television tower near St. Albans, West Virginia on a stormy July 4 evening. After each strike, sparks of molten metal fall from the tower tip like a fireworks burst as loud thunder crashes. Excellent proof that lightning does strike the same place twice! Other lightning bolts flash behind the tower tip. Preview clip, 27.4MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-061405A - Close-Up of Lightning Striking Antenna 2
Date filmed: June 14, 2003 Location: St. Albans, West Virginia Total footage: 38 seconds Scenes: 6 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: Three intense lightning bolts strike a television tower near St. Albans, West Virginia in a timespan of less than five minutes. Two cameras record the action from close range, with one set up to capture detailed extreme close-up shots of each strike. Fine detail of each strike is visible, including lightning channel drift, bead-out and return strokes. Glowing metal shards fall from the tower after each strike. Excellent proof that lightning does strike the same place twice! Preview clip, 2.6MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-041706A - Lightning Striking Antenna at Night
Date filmed: April 17, 2006 Location: St. Albans, West Virginia Total footage: 20 seconds Scenes: 3 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: Three spectacular lightning bolts strike a television tower near St. Albans, West Virginia in a timespan of less than five minutes. Two cameras record the action from close range, with both set up to capture detailed extreme close-up shots of each strike. Fine detail of each strike is visible, including lightning channel drift and bead-out. Glowing metal shards fall from the tower after each strike like a fireworks burst. Excellent proof that lightning does strike the same place twice! Preview clip, 19.6MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# MDL-WC-061103A - Very Close Strike to Water
Date filmed: June 11, 2003 Location: Easton, Maryland Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: A very close cloud-to-ground lightning bolt strikes the water next to a causeway on the eastern shore of the Chesakeake Bay in Maryland, with an orange glow emanating from the last few feet of the lightning channel. Preview clip, 1.5MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# NML-052905A - Close Lightning Near Vehicle
Date filmed: May 29, 2005 Location: Clayton, New Mexico Total footage: 0:18 Scenes: 4 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: Close cloud-to-ground lightning bolts rain down around the vehicle while driving through an intense thunderstorm in northeastern New Mexico. One bolt strikes a pole less than 100 yards in front of the vehicle with an instantaneous blast of thunder. Preview clip, 1.3MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-062206A - Intense Close Lightning at Dusk
Date filmed: June 22, 2006 Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: Frequent, brilliant, startling and close lightning strikes from a strong storm in central West Virginia. Includes great audio of loud blasts of thunder. Preview clip, 22.3MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-110805E - Intense Close Lightning
Date filmed: November 8, 2005 Location: Charleston, West Virginia Total footage: 1:13 Scenes: 7 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: Frequent, brilliant, startling and close lightning strikes pummel Charleston, West Virginia. Includes great audio of loud blasts of thunder. A diesel generator starts up after one of the lightning strikes knocks out power. Preview clip, 4.8MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# SDL-060705A - Close lightning strikes
Date filmed: June 7, 2005 Location: Kadoka, South Dakota Total footage: 0:22 Scenes: 2 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: Two very close lightning strikes hit near storm chasers watching a spectacular supercell thunderstorm. The first bolt is directly in front of the camera, the second is much closer and hits out of the picture to the left. A small clicking sound can be heard as the second strike flickers nearby. Includes great audio of the loud, startling blasts of thunder. Preview clip, 1.5MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# VAL-WC-061503A - Loud Thunder Barrage
Date filmed: June 15, 2003 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: A barrage of close lightning strikes creates one of the most dramatic and hair-raising series of thunder blasts you'll ever hear. Preview clip, 13.3MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-042205A - Lightning Strike to TV Tower
Date filmed: April 22, 2005 Location: St. Albans, West Virginia Total footage: 0:12 Scenes: 1 clip Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: A close-up shot of a wildly meandering lightning strike to a television tower at night. Sparks fly off of the tip of the tower after the strike. Preview clip, 1.0MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# KYL-020508A - Lightning Hits Towers 11 Times
Date filmed: February 5, 2008 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: Lightning strikes the same place - not twice, but eleven times in a time span of only 20 minutes! These TV towers in Lexington were the repeated targets of lightning strikes during a wintertime severe weather outbreak on February 5, 2008, the same day that tornadoes ravaged parts of Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. This video sequence captures ten of the eleven hits to the towers, with varying camera angles including several close-up zoom shots of strikes to the tip of one antenna. Preview clip, 9.7MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# TXL-061205A - Texas Supercell Lightning
Date filmed: June 12, 2005 Location: Hamlin, Texas Total footage: 1:17 Scenes: 5 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: Lightning from a tornadic supercell in Texas. Preview clip, 4.7MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# OHL-041704A - Ohio Lightning Barrage
Date filmed: April 17, 2004 Location: Fairview, Ohio Total footage: 3:25 Scenes: 22 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Premium Severe Weather Description: An intense storm in Ohio drops frequent and very close lightning. Includes hair-raising audio of loud, startling thunder from close strikes. Preview clip, 8.3MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# OHL-082604A - Driving in Thunderstorm
Date filmed: August 26, 2003 Location: Cambridge, Ohio Total footage: 2:18 Scenes: 23 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: Dashcam video while driving on an interstate highway during an intense thunderstorm. Includes shots of lightning photography. Preview clip, 8.8MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-072705A - Lightning strike to tower
Date filmed: July 27, 2005 Location: St. Albans, West Virginia Total footage: 0:25 Scenes: 2 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: A cloud-to-ground lightning strike to a television tower. Includes simultaneous wide and extreme close-up zoom shots. Preview clip, 1.6MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-050704A - Lightning along Interstate 79
Date filmed: May 7, 2004 Location: Jane Lew, West Virginia Total footage: 1:26 Scenes: 6 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: Intense afternoon storm with close and brilliant lightning. Includes nice thunder audio from close strikes. Preview clip, 5.4MB More Detail & Screenshots >>

	# WVL-082904A - Lightning along Interstate
Date filmed: August 29, 2004 Location: Roane County, West Virginia Total footage: 1:39 Scenes: 5 clips Speed: Realtime Class: Severe Weather Description: Close lightning strikes in rural West Virginia. Includes great audio of thunder. Preview clip, 5.8MB More Detail & Screenshots >>