Epic Upward Lightning During Predawn! Slow Motion Lightning 4-6-25

Описание: #lightning #slowmotion #weather
This is from the same thunderstorm complex responsible for the Nashville tower lightning show in my previous video. Be sure to watch that one if you haven't already! This was between 3 and 7 AM local time in Huntsville. There was a total of I think 15 tower flashes, though some were obscured by clouds or were very weak "upward tickles" as I like to call them. All upward flashes in this video are negative GC flashes (upward positive leaders). The thunder you hear in the video are mostly from the triggering negative leaders and positive CGs.

EVENT TIMES AND NLDN DATA (CDT; UTC -05:00)
(Note that the detected pulses for each flash may not be in temporal order)
- Detected as cloud pulse

Flash 1: ~6:00:21
Flash 2: 6:15:57 -- -13 kA (WHNT)
Flash 3: ~6:18:24
Flash 4: ~6:27:01
Flash 5: 6:30:02 -- -19*,-11*,-9*,-7* (WAFF); loud positive CG was 107 kA
Flash 6: 6:32:21

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Nikon D5300 DSLR

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Video editing done using Shotcut

Lightning information provided by Vaisala's National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) through weather.us/lightning. The data is used for purely recreational purposes to roughly estimate stroke intensity and distance, the data presented here may be prone to error on my end and is not an 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.
https://ztresearch.blog/education/