EPIC 3.72 Second Anvil Crawler Kansas Lightning

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Storm Chasers Daniel Shaw & Thomas Hinterdorfer witnessed extended lightning activity which started with a distant cloud to ground lightning strike, followed by an anvil crawler and multiple strike CG bolt. This was followed with further lightning activity near Great Bend Kansas on the 17th May, 2022
The lightning event was measured at 3 seconds & 36 frames (50 FPS Base Timecode)
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@tonyrauls1941 3 ай бұрын

I remember once watching a display like this in a dugout during a baseball rain delay. Lightning claimed the entire sky, as far as we could see. I was probably the only one on our team completely hypnotized by nature's fury and beauty. 20 years and I've yet to see anything close to that night. Crazy how people just dismiss such a special occurrence. Each lightning strike reached out across and filled the night sky, and lit it up as if it were the afternoon sun.

@mitchellerickson9836 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely incredible. Definitely right place at the right time

@kevyjo Ай бұрын

When i was a kid I saw the most epic example of anvil crawling lightning that could ever be...we were between two widely separated lines of thunderstorms...my brother urged me to come outside...and nothing happened for several minutes...and then from a corner of the sky far the east it started, and kept sprawling out until the entire sky was lit with blindingly bright flickering, crawling tendrals....all completely silent...the elisode seemed to last for ages but was maybe 30 to 40 seconds....it happened a couple more times after 15 minute breaks

@lillianblair6071 2 жыл бұрын

Epic lightning video Daniel. Thanks for sharing.

@obsidianwing 2 жыл бұрын

Wow 2 Epic Events in one Night

@rebelbelle62 2 жыл бұрын

Lightning is really beautiful! I love to watch Lightning storms.

@aliashurricane9349 2 жыл бұрын

I have never seen anything like this! Thank you for posting this. Absolutely magical and terrifying and beautiful 🤩

@MrMiike83 2 жыл бұрын

I have once years ago travelling north through QLD Australia, it was mesmerising. It looked like it was coming from the coast line direction by the looks of it and it's a night I'll never forget.

@wolfie6320 2 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable! Great work!

@kevinashley478 2 жыл бұрын

I have only seen one other lightening display that was better than that. I was driving home from night class and the lightening started at a point on my right, fanned out under the bottom of the clouds and went clear across the entire sky, rippling and staying lit as it traveled, until all of the cloud bottoms from side to side and from horizon to horizon was completely lit and then it slowly dissipated from the origin spot all the way across. It so massive and lasted so long that people were stopping their cars. It had to have lasted for 8-12 seconds, maybe longer. It traveled slowly, not the quick flashes you normally think of.

@stormsandfishing5448 2 жыл бұрын

Insane, Either the crawler or the pulsing CG would have been a great capture but you got the combo!

@kaymad143 7 ай бұрын

That looks like a laser light show!

@TylerHughes4991 2 жыл бұрын

Ok that was freaking cool

@khs17 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Daniel, I am from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

@findingfifth407 2 жыл бұрын

I have never seen lightning do this. Gobsmacking.

@jmorin6620 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, wow! Great catch!

@MIKEKD8OSKH 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome slow motion

@t.sewell1513 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! Incredible.

@colin7244 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@carlarowland1813 2 жыл бұрын

That was awesome ❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗

@jackijordan3079 2 жыл бұрын

OMG Bloody awesome

@brianmyers8350 2 жыл бұрын

Anvil crawler: cool name for a metal band or no?

@djgeminiindigo5271 2 жыл бұрын

That was epic

@kirstieashsymons6559 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely awesome 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

@cornfedlife 2 жыл бұрын

We were driving through North Central Kansas in the middle of that! Worst storm I've ever seen!

@carlarowland1813 2 жыл бұрын

Now that is bitching seeing all that beautiful light come down out of the sky now see that something to see

@YourGraceMyLady 2 жыл бұрын

Wakiya Wakan

@kelliesmith2853 2 жыл бұрын

Faaaaarrrkkkk!

@kerstoneshepherds2035 Жыл бұрын

Nice! I was thinking this must’ve been the same lightning I videoed from my front yard… but after finding the video compilation, I realized mine was September 2022! kzbin.info/www/bejne/goaveI1maJKhpdk ~Alicia

@thelightninghunter23 2 жыл бұрын

Physics time! This portion of the discharge starts out with a distant CG and a cloud brightening racing away from it. Looks to be a positive CG with continuing current... possibly a sprite trigger. The brightening in the cloud is a negative leader tree; the one closest to us separates from the rest of the flash and the bright crawlers develop from the separation point; this allows the bidirectional breakdown to continue. Negative leaders in cloud, positive leaders propagating through positive and negative charge regions, respectively. The positive leader tree runs away to the left; now that separates from the flash and negative leaders punch into positive charge above. This often causes spectacular intensification of your sub-cloud positive leader trees. The positive charge above seems to get depleted rapidly, and the excess negative charge shoved back by the positive tree forms a channel to the ground, causing multiple negative CG return strokes. The largest crawler flashes develop in this way, where sections of the flash keep running away, separating, causing new bidirectional breakdown and repeating the process. Depending on the charge balance, you'll have either positive or negative ground strokes (or both) along the flash path which may be hundreds of miles in total length. If you read the whole thing, hope you found it interesting!

@emrilbennett8704 7 ай бұрын

Cool facts

@emily.toombs 4 ай бұрын

I really did find that fascinating! Thank you! Leading with (yay) physics is always gonna attract the crowd who wants to know the how.

@michellebarney1427 2 жыл бұрын

I’m mesmerised. Absolutely awesome capture for the lightening

@ozthunder 2 жыл бұрын

From what I know (which is debatable..lol) this type of lightning that crawls across the sky, then throws a CG may induce a sprite. If you were 100-150kms back from the storm you may have got some. Epic show !

@thelightninghunter23 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, positive CG flashes in stratiform regions is almost always the culprit for sprites... you want a stroke with very high charge transfer both during the return stroke process and during the continuing current phase when negative leaders are racing out collecting positive charge to ground out. In this video we can see a distant CG and a cloud brightening racing away from it at the start of the big discharge... that may very well have been a sprite trigger. Good to see you again by the way!