r/Lightning

I thought I’d share the rest of my Arizona trip photos all at once. (Unless I find more buried in the thousands of images I sorted through. 😄)

Thanks so much for all the support. It’s been a lot of fun sharing these, and I hope you enjoy them!

I am the original content creator and this was shot with an iPhone 14.

Sweet storm

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Videos 8-16 show the 3:00 AM lightning completely illuminating the tornado cone and the extreme wind sucking the rain to the cone.
What you have to look forward to is over 400+ extreme weather videos like this series that I'll be posting from here on out. Thanks for watching 😊

Started raining on my drive home from parents. Big chain of happenstance coincidence synchronicity stuff etc for me to be listening to a specific playlist thru the day, and timing of "Rain" song coming up (on my car's screen), RIGHT as the rain storm has started.

Last minute decision to take a "long way" home, passed my normal turn, and I decided to take a photo of my car's screen with "Rain" and the rain storm through the windshield. Did landscape, then flipped to portrait.

IMMEDIATELY lightning. I thought there was no way in hell actually caught it. I really thought I missed it. Kept thinking on the rest of the drive "oh man how cool would that have been if I actually got it?! If only I took the photo a second earlier, or wasn't twisting my phone around to portrait mode..."

Check the photos later. Somehow caught it. One of the most awesome coincidences of my life. A handful chain of synchronicities that day led to that moment.

Last Saturday we had a huge thunderstorm, but that's the best video I could capture.

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I was working in my local church when I noticed a bright light in my peripheral vision that appeared to float in through the main entrance and then disappeared behind the pews before it popped up and over towards me. It freaked me out to the point that I hid in the toilets in the vestry and when I came back out it was gone.
I decided that it was most likely ball lighting from a nearby thunderstorm but what do you all think?
I’ve already been derided for posting my only unexplained experience so I thought I’d post something more explainable lol

April 2025 tornado Part 5-16
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The storm is rapidly intensifying. The tornado is continuing its dangerous southern trajectory, tracking straight toward our house here on the outskirts of Lebanon, Tennessee.

In this episode, the wind and rain start to severely increase as the outer bands move directly over our backyard.Suddenly, three massive, solid cloud-to-ground lightning bolts strike the open fields right outside our neighborhood.

Each strike is accompanied by immediate, deafening crackling thunder that violently echoes throughout the entire valley. The extreme atmospheric rotation is starting to wrap around us, and the physical tornado cone is almost coming into play. Stick around, because in the next two videos, the constant lightning finally uncovers the massive tornado cone hiding in the background!

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