Bright Crawler Lightning! Slow Motion Lightning 5/12/24

This was an unexpected high-based storm that passed over my home in Round Lake, IL. The storm had a "bottom-heavy" charge structure (negative-over-positive charge structure near cloud base) which will produce a high number of these fast negative crawlers near the storm core with little or no cloud-to-ground strikes. Had the storm arrived an hour earlier, it'd be a lot more colorful, but I'll take a freebie!
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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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[@NYCHFAN]

I just found your channel. Fascinating, I subbed. Lightning has always scared the u know what out of me, but it is so beautiful and surreal at the same time.

[@celeno31]

loved!

[@lydiak4524]

This little storm was not so little. Certainly provided a lot of entertainment.

[@thelightninghunter23]

Well, it was a little storm. The important thing here is the charge structure. In most storms, your lightning tends to be in the middle and upper part of the storm. Here, every flash produced visible leader activity below cloud base. Why did it charge this way? It's all tied to the proportions of different types of ice particles and liquid water in the portion of the storm where electrification happens.

[@blrenx]

I wonder if the solar storms are the reason we are having such strange lighting and rolling thunder goes on for five min

[@thelightninghunter23]

Very unlikely that the solar storms have anything to do with it. You get long rolling thunder if you have a storm complex with extensive charge structures that support very large flashes. A typical thunderstorm is just not large enough. To get large complexes, you need meteorological parameters to line up in the right way