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Most lightning strikes have at least 2 to 4 seconds of 'padding' or lead-in and lead-out. Long-duration clips are designated as those in which there is no break in the continuity of the video. See also our High-Definition lightning video catalog in the StormScenes HD Library.
 Date filmed: June 22, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
Description: Part 1 of 4 in the StormScenes 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: July 20, 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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, 6.5MB
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Date filmed: July 20, 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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: June 22, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
Description: Part 2 of 4 in the StormScenes Pittsburgh Lightning series. A strong afternoon thunderstorm moves into downtown Pittsburgh during the afternoon rush hour. Vivid, quick cloud-to-ground bolts flicker behind the city.
Preview clip, 9.6MB
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Date filmed: June 19, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: Part 3 of 4 in the StormScenes 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: August 16, 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 8 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: Part 4 of 4 in the StormScenes Pittsburgh Lightning series. 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: July 19, 2005
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:47
Scenes: 34 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Credit: raleighskyline.com
Description: Lightning lights up the sky over downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
Preview clip, 4.3MB
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Date filmed: July 3, 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: A lightning bolt strikes the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago during a July morning thunderstorm.
Preview clip, 989KB
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Date filmed: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:26
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-Roll
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: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:31
Scenes: 2 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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: May 17, 2005
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Total footage: 0:15
Scenes: 3 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-Roll
Description: Lightning flashes behind a bridge over the Ohio River in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
Preview clip, 1.1MB
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Date filmed: August 4, 2003
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 37 seconds
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: Lightning in the night sky over Charleston, West Virginia.
Preview clip, 2.3MB
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Date filmed: July 27, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:40
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-Roll
Description: Lightning strikes over downtown Charleston, West Virginia.
Preview clip, 2.5MB
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Date filmed: November 8, 2005
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 1:13
Scenes: 7 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
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: April 10, 2004
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Total footage: 1:31
Scenes: 8 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: Two cameras roll as lightning repeatedly strikes television towers east of Raleigh, North Carolina, some two and three simultaneously. Both zoom and wide shots. Evidence that lightning does strike the same place twice! Good thunder audio included.
Preview clip, 5.5MB
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Date filmed: May 21, 2004
Location: Norfolk, Nebraska
Total footage: 49 seconds
Scenes: 14 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Premium Severe Weather
Description: An absolutely stunning display of powerful, sky-filling nighttime lightning in Nebraska.
Preview clip, 3.1MB
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Date filmed: February 5, 2008
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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 11, 2004
Location: Boone, Iowa
Total footage: 01:19
Scenes: 1 Long-duration clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
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: May 30, 2004
Location: Mascoutah, Illinois
Total footage: 40 seconds
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: Daytime lightning explodes across the sky above traffic along on Interstate 64 in southwestern Illinois.
Preview clip, 2.5MB
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Date filmed: May 1, 2003
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 27 seconds
Scenes: 5 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-roll
Description: Daytime lightning over suburban area and mountains.
Preview clip, 1.8MB
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Date filmed: June 1, 2004
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Total footage: 20 seconds
Scenes: 3 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-roll
Description: Quick daytime lightning over downtown Charleston, West Virginia.
Preview clip, 1.3MB
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Date filmed: July 9, 2004
Location: Scott Depot, West Virginia
Total footage: 30 seconds
Scenes: 6 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: General Weather/B-roll
Description: Lightning over houses, traffic and a television tower.
Preview clip, 1.9MB
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Date filmed: May 19, 2005
Location: Milton, West Virginia
Total footage: 0:13
Scenes: 1 clip
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: A bright cloud-to-ground lightning strike hits behind traffic.
Preview clip, 891KB
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Date filmed: July 25, 2004
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Total footage: 1:11
Scenes: 12 clips
Speed: Realtime
Class: Severe Weather
Description: Lightning in the sky and behind the county courthouse dome in downtown Huntington, West Virginia.
Preview clip, 4.7MB
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