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Most lightning strikes have at least 2 to 4 seconds of 'padding' or lead-in and lead-out. Long-duration clips are designated as those in which there is no break in the continuity of the video. See also our High-Definition lightning video catalog in the StormScenes HD Library.


 # OKL-061105A - Nighttime Lightning Barrage

Date filmed: June 11, 2005
Location: Fort Supply, Oklahoma
Total footage: 1:09
Scenes: 36 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Frequent, vivid lightning lights up the night in rural western Oklahoma.

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 # MOL-061104A - Missouri Lightning Show

Date filmed: June 11, 2004
Location: Eagleville, Missouri
Total footage: 3:10
Scenes: 15 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

Description: Sudden sky-filling lightning explodes across the night sky in rural northwestern Missouri. Great audio of rolling thunder as crickets chirp.

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 # NEL-052104A - Nebraska Lightning Show

Date filmed: May 21, 2004
Location: Norfolk, Nebraska
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 14 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

Description: An absolutely stunning display of powerful, sky-filling nighttime lightning in Nebraska.

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 # 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

This video is available in high definition

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.

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 # ILL-072006AS - Lightning Hits Sears Tower, John Hancock Center

Date filmed: July 20, 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

This video is available in high definition

Description: Twice, lightning simultaneously strikes the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago. Second and third cameras record close-up shots of lightning hitting the skyscrapers.

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 # ILL-072006A - Lightning over Chicago Skyline

Date filmed: July 20, 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

This video is available in high definition

Description: Lightning bolts behind and over the downtown Chicago skyline and skyscrapers, from three camera angles. Lightning strikes the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center.

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 # 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

This video is available in high definition

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!

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 # 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

This video is available in high definition

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.

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 # 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.

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 # PAL-062206A - Pittsburgh Lightning - Part 1

Date filmed: June 22, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

This video is available in high definition

Description: Part 1 of 4 in the StormScenes Pittsburgh Lightning series. Nighttime lightning over the heart of downtown Pittsburgh. Vivid, pulsing lightning bolts light up the sky behind big city skyscrapers. Includes shots from high elevation vantage points as well as low-angle views while lightning fills the sky in a spectacular display, reflecting off of building windows.

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 # PAL-061906A - Pittsburgh Lightning - Part 3

Date filmed: June 19, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

This video is available in high definition

Description: Part 3 of 4 in the StormScenes Pittsburgh Lightning series. Nighttime lightning over the downtown Pittsburgh skyline. A display of frequent bolts light up the sky behind classic views of the Steel City skyline. Includes telephoto and wide angle shots of lightning over the city skyscrapers.

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 # WVL-062206A - Intense Close Lightning at Dusk

Date filmed: June 22, 2006
Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

This video is available in high definition

Description: Frequent, brilliant, startling and close lightning strikes from a strong storm in central West Virginia. Includes great audio of loud blasts of thunder.

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 # 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.

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 # 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.

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 # NCL-MR-071905A - Lightning Over Downtown Raleigh

Date filmed: July 19, 2005
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:47
Scenes: 34 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Credit: raleighskyline.com

Description: Lightning lights up the sky over downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

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 # WVL-110805ES - Lightning & WV State Capitol

Date filmed: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:31
Scenes: 2 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: A thunderstorm brilliantly lights up the night sky over and behind the West Virginia State Capitol building in Charleston.

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 # IAL-061104A - Lightning and Freight Train

Date filmed: June 11, 2004
Location: Boone, Iowa
Total footage: 01:19
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: A freight train passes as an intense Iowa thunderstorm flickers in the distant night sky.

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 # NCL-MR-061204B - North Carolina lightning show

Date filmed: June 12, 2004
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:40
Scenes: 31 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Credit: raleighskyline.com

Description: Frequent, intense lightning flashes in the North Carolina night sky.

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 # NCL-MR-061204A - Lightning and American Flag

Date filmed: June 12, 2004
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 0:32
Scenes: 15 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Credit: raleighskyline.com

Description: Frequent lightning flashes behind an American flag at night.

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 # KYL-051705A - Lightning & Ohio River Bridge

Date filmed: May 17, 2005
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Total footage: 0:15
Scenes: 3 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-Roll

Description: Lightning flashes behind a bridge over the Ohio River in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

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 # KSL-051204A - Anvil Lightning in Supercell

Date filmed: May 12, 2004
Location: Harper, Kansas
Total footage: 1:59
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Frequent lightning flickers in the anvil of a tornadic thunderstorm.

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 # KSL-052204A - Storm Chasers and Lightning

Date filmed: May 22, 2004
Location: Northern Kansas
Total footage: 1:07
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Storm chasers discuss the weather situation as lightning flickers overhead.

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 # KSL-052404A - Distant Nighttime Lightning

Date filmed: May 24, 2004
Location: Melvern, Kansas
Total footage: 1:08
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Distant lightning flickers in the night sky above rural Kansas.

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 # KYL-0070704A - Lightning and Crosses

Date filmed: July 7, 2004
Location: Grayson, Kentucky
Total footage: 56 seconds
Scenes: 12 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Lightning in Grayson, Kentucky flashes behind three crosses on a hill, then moves into the Huntington and Charleston, WV area.

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 # NEL-061004A - Night Lightning in Nebraska

Date filmed: June 10, 2004
Location: Cozad, Nebraska
Total footage: 2:28
Scenes: 13 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Spectacular lightning explodes over rural Nebraska.

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 # NEL-061004B - Frequent Nighttime Lightning

Date filmed: June 10, 2004
Location: Cozad, Nebraska
Total footage: 13:17
Scenes: 5 Long-duration clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Distant storms flicker with frequent lightning during and after sunset in Nebraska. Long unedited clips showing the amazing fequency of the lightning are perfect for video backdrops.

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 # 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.

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 # 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.

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 # PAL-081603A - Lightning in Pittsburgh

Date filmed: August 16, 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 8 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Nighttime lightning over downtown Pittsburgh and a Steelers Game at Heinz Field. The storm prompted a 30-minute lightning delay in the game.

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 # TXL-052905B - Storm Chasers Photograph Lightning

Date filmed: May 29, 2005
Location: Dalhart, Texas
Total footage: 0:19
Scenes: 4 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-Roll

Description: Storm chasers photograph lightning at dusk in northern Texas.

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 # SDL-051104A - Continuous South Dakota Lightning

Date filmed: May 11, 2004
Location: Aberdeen, South Dakota
Total footage: 1:47
Scenes: 4 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Continuous lightning dances in an approaching South Dakota storm, creating an ominous scene as daylight fades.

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 # MOL-060707A - Distant Thunderstorm Lightning

Date filmed: June 7, 2007
Location: Booneville, Missouri
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

Description: A distant thunderstorm looms in the twilight sky, with lightning illuminating the storm from within.

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 # WVL-040403A - Springtime Night Lightning

Date filmed: April 4, 2003
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 21 seconds
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather

Description: Nighttime lightning lights up the sky in a suburban neighborhood.

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 # WVL-071503A - West Virginia Lightning Show

Date filmed: July 15, 2003
Location: Scott Depot, West Virginia
Total footage: 22 seconds
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather

Description: Breathtaking sky-filling nighttime lightning in rural West Virginia.

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