Interesting thunderstorm and lightning photos and videos that I've taken over the years

Lightning struck this tree at the O'Fallon Community Park along E Hwy 50 in O'Fallon, Illinois on June 6, 1997.




Lightning struck this tree at the O'Fallon Community Park along E Hwy 50 in O'Fallon, Illinois on April 8, 1998.


A thunderstorm outflow boundary, or gust front, is visibile as a shelf cloud moving from right to
left (west to east) followed by gusty winds and heavy rain from a thunderstorm on May 22, 2022

The wind gust & direction, rainfall accumulation, and pressure plots from the weather station are below








A weak outflow boundary moves from south to north (towards the camera) followed by a brief thunderstorm on July 1, 2022


A still frame extracted from the video shows a cloud-to-ground lightning strike at 5:28:42 PM


This video shows a very bright lightning striked over exposing the CCD on the weather cam on July 12, 2022

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