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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.
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 # OKL-061105A - Nighttime Lightning Barrage
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Date filmed: June 11, 2005
Location: Fort Supply, Oklahoma
Total footage: 1:09
Scenes: 36 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Frequent, vivid lightning lights up the night in rural western Oklahoma.
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Preview clip, 4.5MB
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 # MOL-061104A - Missouri Lightning Show
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Date filmed: June 11, 2004
Location: Eagleville, Missouri
Total footage: 3:10
Scenes: 15 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 12.0MB
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 # NEL-052104A - Nebraska Lightning Show
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Date filmed: May 21, 2004
Location: Norfolk, Nebraska
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 14 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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Description: An absolutely stunning display of powerful, sky-filling nighttime lightning in Nebraska.
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Preview clip, 3.1MB
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 # WVL-070406A - Close-Up of Lightning Striking Antenna 1
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 # ILL-072006AS - Lightning Hits Sears Tower, John Hancock Center
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 # ILL-072006A - Lightning over Chicago Skyline
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 # WVL-041706A - Lightning Striking Antenna at Night
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 # WVL-110805E - Intense Close Lightning
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 # KYL-020508A - Lightning Hits Towers 11 Times
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Date filmed: February 5, 2008
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 9.7MB
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 # PAL-062206A - Pittsburgh Lightning - Part 1
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 # PAL-061906A - Pittsburgh Lightning - Part 3
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 # WVL-062206A - Intense Close Lightning at Dusk
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 # WVL-042205A - Lightning Strike to TV Tower
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Date filmed: April 22, 2005
Location: St. Albans, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:12
Scenes: 1 clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 1.0MB
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 # MDL-WC-061103A - Very Close Strike to Water
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Date filmed: June 11, 2003
Location: Easton, Maryland
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 1.5MB
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 # NCL-MR-071905A - Lightning Over Downtown Raleigh
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Date filmed: July 19, 2005
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:47
Scenes: 34 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Credit: raleighskyline.com
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Description: Lightning lights up the sky over downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Preview clip, 4.3MB
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 # WVL-110805ES - Lightning & WV State Capitol
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Date filmed: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:31
Scenes: 2 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: A thunderstorm brilliantly lights up the night sky over and behind the West Virginia State Capitol building in Charleston.
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Preview clip, 2.1MB
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 # IAL-061104A - Lightning and Freight Train
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Date filmed: June 11, 2004
Location: Boone, Iowa
Total footage: 01:19
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: A freight train passes as an intense Iowa thunderstorm flickers in the distant night sky.
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Preview clip, 2.0MB
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 # NCL-MR-061204B - North Carolina lightning show
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Date filmed: June 12, 2004
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:40
Scenes: 31 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Credit: raleighskyline.com
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Description: Frequent, intense lightning flashes in the North Carolina night sky.
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Preview clip, 2.8MB
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 # NCL-MR-061204A - Lightning and American Flag
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Date filmed: June 12, 2004
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 0:32
Scenes: 15 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Credit: raleighskyline.com
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Description: Frequent lightning flashes behind an American flag at night.
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Preview clip, 2.5MB
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 # KYL-051705A - Lightning & Ohio River Bridge
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Date filmed: May 17, 2005
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Total footage: 0:15
Scenes: 3 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-Roll
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Description: Lightning flashes behind a bridge over the Ohio River in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
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Preview clip, 1.1MB
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 # KSL-051204A - Anvil Lightning in Supercell
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Date filmed: May 12, 2004
Location: Harper, Kansas
Total footage: 1:59
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Frequent lightning flickers in the anvil of a tornadic thunderstorm.
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Preview clip, 2.3MB
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 # KSL-052204A - Storm Chasers and Lightning
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Date filmed: May 22, 2004
Location: Northern Kansas
Total footage: 1:07
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Storm chasers discuss the weather situation as lightning flickers overhead.
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Preview clip, 1.4MB
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 # KSL-052404A - Distant Nighttime Lightning
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Date filmed: May 24, 2004
Location: Melvern, Kansas
Total footage: 1:08
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Distant lightning flickers in the night sky above rural Kansas.
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Preview clip, 1.8MB
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 # KYL-0070704A - Lightning and Crosses
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Date filmed: July 7, 2004
Location: Grayson, Kentucky
Total footage: 56 seconds
Scenes: 12 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 3.6MB
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 # NEL-061004A - Night Lightning in Nebraska
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Date filmed: June 10, 2004
Location: Cozad, Nebraska
Total footage: 2:28
Scenes: 13 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Spectacular lightning explodes over rural Nebraska.
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Preview clip, 9.1MB
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 # NEL-061004B - Frequent Nighttime Lightning
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Date filmed: June 10, 2004
Location: Cozad, Nebraska
Total footage: 13:17
Scenes: 5 Long-duration clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 5.8MB
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 # OHL-041704A - Ohio Lightning Barrage
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Date filmed: April 17, 2004
Location: Fairview, Ohio
Total footage: 3:25
Scenes: 22 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 8.3MB
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 # OHL-082604A - Driving in Thunderstorm
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Date filmed: August 26, 2003
Location: Cambridge, Ohio
Total footage: 2:18
Scenes: 23 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Dashcam video while driving on an interstate highway during an intense thunderstorm. Includes shots of lightning photography.
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Preview clip, 8.8MB
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 # PAL-081603A - Lightning in Pittsburgh
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Date filmed: August 16, 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 8 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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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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Preview clip, 3.1MB
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 # TXL-052905B - Storm Chasers Photograph Lightning
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Date filmed: May 29, 2005
Location: Dalhart, Texas
Total footage: 0:19
Scenes: 4 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-Roll
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Description: Storm chasers photograph lightning at dusk in northern Texas.
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Preview clip, 1.3MB
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 # SDL-051104A - Continuous South Dakota Lightning
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Date filmed: May 11, 2004
Location: Aberdeen, South Dakota
Total footage: 1:47
Scenes: 4 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Continuous lightning dances in an approaching South Dakota storm, creating an ominous scene as daylight fades.
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Preview clip, 1.9MB
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 # MOL-060707A - Distant Thunderstorm Lightning
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Date filmed: June 7, 2007
Location: Booneville, Missouri
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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Description: A distant thunderstorm looms in the twilight sky, with lightning illuminating the storm from within.
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Preview clip, 12.0MB
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 # WVL-040403A - Springtime Night Lightning
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Date filmed: April 4, 2003
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 21 seconds
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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Description: Nighttime lightning lights up the sky in a suburban neighborhood.
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Preview clip, 1.3MB
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 # WVL-071503A - West Virginia Lightning Show
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Date filmed: July 15, 2003
Location: Scott Depot, West Virginia
Total footage: 22 seconds
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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Description: Breathtaking sky-filling nighttime lightning in rural West Virginia.
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Preview clip, 1.5MB
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