Stock Footage > Lightning > Lightning at Night

Date filmed: June 11, 2005
Location: Fort Supply, Oklahoma
Total footage: 1:09
Scenes: 36 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Frequent, vivid lightning lights up the night in rural western Oklahoma.

Preview clip, 4.5MB

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Date filmed: June 11, 2004
Location: Eagleville, Missouri
Total footage: 3:10
Scenes: 15 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Sudden sky-filling lightning explodes across the night sky in rural northwestern Missouri. Great audio of rolling thunder as crickets chirp.

Preview clip, 12.0MB

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Date filmed: May 21, 2004
Location: Norfolk, Nebraska
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 14 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: An absolutely stunning display of powerful, sky-filling nighttime lightning in Nebraska.

Preview clip, 3.1MB

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Date filmed: July 4, 2006
Location: St. Albans, West Virginia
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Three camera views (wide, telephoto and extreme telephoto) yield extremely detailed, close-up shots of three spectacular lightning bolts directly striking the antenna of a television tower near St. Albans, West Virginia on a stormy July 4 evening. After each strike, sparks of molten metal fall from the tower tip like a fireworks burst as loud thunder crashes. Excellent proof that lightning does strike the same place twice! Other lightning bolts flash behind the tower tip.

Preview clip, 27.4MB

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Date filmed: July 20, 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Twice, lightning simultaneously strikes the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago. Second and third cameras record close-up shots of lightning hitting the skyscrapers.

Preview clip, 2.4MB

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Date filmed: July 20, 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Lightning bolts behind and over the downtown Chicago skyline and skyscrapers, from three camera angles. Lightning strikes the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center.

Preview clip, 25.9MB

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Date filmed: April 17, 2006
Location: St. Albans, West Virginia
Total footage: 20 seconds
Scenes: 3 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Three spectacular lightning bolts strike a television tower near St. Albans, West Virginia in a timespan of less than five minutes. Two cameras record the action from close range, with both set up to capture detailed extreme close-up shots of each strike. Fine detail of each strike is visible, including lightning channel drift and bead-out. Glowing metal shards fall from the tower after each strike like a fireworks burst. Excellent proof that lightning does strike the same place twice!

Preview clip, 19.6MB

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Date filmed: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 1:13
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Frequent, brilliant, startling and close lightning strikes pummel Charleston, West Virginia. Includes great audio of loud blasts of thunder. A diesel generator starts up after one of the lightning strikes knocks out power.

Preview clip, 4.8MB

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Date filmed: February 5, 2008
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Lightning strikes the same place - not twice, but eleven times in a time span of only 20 minutes! These TV towers in Lexington were the repeated targets of lightning strikes during a wintertime severe weather outbreak on February 5, 2008, the same day that tornadoes ravaged parts of Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. This video sequence captures ten of the eleven hits to the towers, with varying camera angles including several close-up zoom shots of strikes to the tip of one antenna.

Preview clip, 9.7MB

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Date filmed: June 22, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Part 1 of 4 in the Storm Highway Pittsburgh Lightning series. Nighttime lightning over the heart of downtown Pittsburgh. Vivid, pulsing lightning bolts light up the sky behind big city skyscrapers. Includes shots from high elevation vantage points as well as low-angle views while lightning fills the sky in a spectacular display, reflecting off of building windows.

Preview clip, 30.1MB

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Date filmed: June 19, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Part 3 of 4 in the Storm Highway Pittsburgh Lightning series. Nighttime lightning over the downtown Pittsburgh skyline. A display of frequent bolts light up the sky behind classic views of the Steel City skyline. Includes telephoto and wide angle shots of lightning over the city skyscrapers.

Preview clip, 37.0MB

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Date filmed: June 22, 2006
Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Frequent, brilliant, startling and close lightning strikes from a strong storm in central West Virginia. Includes great audio of loud blasts of thunder.

Preview clip, 22.3MB

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Date filmed: April 22, 2005
Location: St. Albans, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:12
Scenes: 1 clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: A close-up shot of a wildly meandering lightning strike to a television tower at night. Sparks fly off of the tip of the tower after the strike.

Preview clip, 1.0MB

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Date filmed: June 11, 2003
Location: Easton, Maryland
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: A very close cloud-to-ground lightning bolt strikes the water next to a causeway on the eastern shore of the Chesakeake Bay in Maryland, with an orange glow emanating from the last few feet of the lightning channel.

Preview clip, 1.5MB

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Date filmed: July 19, 2005
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:47
Scenes: 34 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard
Credit: raleighskyline.com

Description: Lightning lights up the sky over downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

Preview clip, 4.3MB

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Date filmed: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:31
Scenes: 2 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: A thunderstorm brilliantly lights up the night sky over and behind the West Virginia State Capitol building in Charleston.

Preview clip, 2.1MB

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Date filmed: June 11, 2004
Location: Boone, Iowa
Total footage: 01:19
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: A freight train passes as an intense Iowa thunderstorm flickers in the distant night sky.

Preview clip, 2.0MB

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Date filmed: June 12, 2004
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:40
Scenes: 31 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard
Credit: raleighskyline.com

Description: Frequent, intense lightning flashes in the North Carolina night sky.

Preview clip, 2.8MB

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Date filmed: June 12, 2004
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 0:32
Scenes: 15 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard
Credit: raleighskyline.com

Description: Frequent lightning flashes behind an American flag at night.

Preview clip, 2.5MB

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Date filmed: May 17, 2005
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Total footage: 0:15
Scenes: 3 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Basic

Description: Lightning flashes behind a bridge over the Ohio River in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

Preview clip, 1.1MB

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Date filmed: May 12, 2004
Location: Harper, Kansas
Total footage: 1:59
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Frequent lightning flickers in the anvil of a tornadic thunderstorm.

Preview clip, 2.3MB

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Date filmed: May 22, 2004
Location: Northern Kansas
Total footage: 1:07
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: storm chasers discuss the weather situation as lightning flickers overhead.

Preview clip, 1.4MB

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Date filmed: May 24, 2004
Location: Melvern, Kansas
Total footage: 1:08
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Distant lightning flickers in the night sky above rural Kansas.

Preview clip, 1.8MB

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Date filmed: July 7, 2004
Location: Grayson, Kentucky
Total footage: 56 seconds
Scenes: 12 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Lightning in Grayson, Kentucky flashes behind three crosses on a hill, then moves into the Huntington and Charleston, WV area.

Preview clip, 3.6MB

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Date filmed: June 10, 2004
Location: Cozad, Nebraska
Total footage: 2:28
Scenes: 13 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Spectacular lightning explodes over rural Nebraska.

Preview clip, 9.1MB

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Date filmed: June 10, 2004
Location: Cozad, Nebraska
Total footage: 13:17
Scenes: 5 Long-duration clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Distant storms flicker with frequent lightning during and after sunset in Nebraska. Long unedited clips showing the amazing fequency of the lightning are perfect for video backdrops.

Preview clip, 5.8MB

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Date filmed: April 17, 2004
Location: Fairview, Ohio
Total footage: 3:25
Scenes: 22 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: An intense storm in Ohio drops frequent and very close lightning. Includes hair-raising audio of loud, startling thunder from close strikes.

Preview clip, 8.3MB

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Date filmed: August 26, 2003
Location: Cambridge, Ohio
Total footage: 2:18
Scenes: 23 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Dashcam video while driving on an interstate highway during an intense thunderstorm. Includes shots of lightning photography.

Preview clip, 8.8MB

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Date filmed: August 16, 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 8 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Nighttime lightning over downtown Pittsburgh and a Steelers Game at Heinz Field. The storm prompted a 30-minute lightning delay in the game.

Preview clip, 3.1MB

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Date filmed: May 29, 2005
Location: Dalhart, Texas
Total footage: 0:19
Scenes: 4 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Basic

Description: storm chasers photograph lightning at dusk in northern Texas.

Preview clip, 1.3MB

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Date filmed: May 11, 2004
Location: Aberdeen, South Dakota
Total footage: 1:47
Scenes: 4 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Continuous lightning dances in an approaching South Dakota storm, creating an ominous scene as daylight fades.

Preview clip, 1.9MB

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Date filmed: June 7, 2007
Location: Booneville, Missouri
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: A distant thunderstorm looms in the twilight sky, with lightning illuminating the storm from within.

Preview clip, 12.0MB

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Date filmed: April 4, 2003
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 21 seconds
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Nighttime lightning lights up the sky in a suburban neighborhood.

Preview clip, 1.3MB

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Date filmed: July 15, 2003
Location: Scott Depot, West Virginia
Total footage: 22 seconds
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium

Description: Breathtaking sky-filling nighttime lightning in rural West Virginia.

Preview clip, 1.5MB

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Date filmed: July 19, 2003
Location: Fayette Station, West Virginia
Total footage: 52 seconds
Scenes: 11 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Basic

Description: Lightning at night over West Virginia's famous New River Gorge Bridge.

Preview clip, 3.3MB

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Date filmed: July 22, 2004
Location: Alum Creek, West Virginia
Total footage: 56 seconds
Scenes: 12 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Nighttime lightning and fog in rural West Virginia.

Preview clip, 3.6MB

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Date filmed: July 25, 2004
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Total footage: 1:11
Scenes: 12 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Lightning in the sky and behind the county courthouse dome in downtown Huntington, West Virginia.

Preview clip, 4.7MB

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Date filmed: August 4, 2003
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 37 seconds
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Lightning in the night sky over Charleston, West Virginia.

Preview clip, 2.3MB

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Date filmed: August 29, 2004
Location: Roane County, West Virginia
Total footage: 1:39
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Standard

Description: Close lightning strikes in rural West Virginia. Includes great audio of thunder.

Preview clip, 5.8MB

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Date filmed: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:26
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Basic

Description: Lightning over urban scenes at night, including city skylines, residential areas, buildings and a bridge.

Preview clip, 1.8MB

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Date filmed: Various
Location: West Virginia
Total footage: 3:10
Scenes: 27 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Basic

Description: Various clips showing the effects of a heavy thunderstorm. Night lightning flashes in the sky. Cars drive through heavy rain. Standing water on a flooded road spirals down a storm drain in a whirlpool. Small hail pelts pavement and grass.

Preview clip, 11.9MB

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