June 4, 2008 - Incredibly Close Lightning Strike, Athens, OH

June 4, 2008 - After a night of very active supercells in W. OH and E. IN, a well organized MCS propagated over S. OH. A bowing segment of the storm was set to hit Athens head-on, and so of course I ran to get my video camera. I was hoping to capture images of a well developed shelf cloud, but little did I know that the real action was in the stratiform region with the most intense and dangerous CG lightning that I have ever seen in Ohio. In this video are the two closest lightning strikes, both within about a minute of each other.

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• MCS
• thunderstorm
• squall
• line
• athens
• nick
• nicholas
• engerer

[richard47483]

ma se poes shit

[emiabregu]

Very close and nice strikes!!!

[jamesnuutinen]

shoes wont save you XDD

[300man04]

Holy shitsticks

[7FridayGirl109]

Oh my god! that was like, RIGHT THERE O.O

rofl, "I SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE SHOES ON."

[Haxchannel]

Nice recording!!! Wish I had weather like that over here lmao :D

[KingJon1982]

holy hell that was close.. bet that hit something too

[MrBrad123456789]

I used to lice in Texas till one day a bow echo and one mesi-cyclone storm when i was 3 Our house was distroyd buy the tornado that formed

[awesomelightning]

but, you hardly get supercells in florida. You get the smaller thunderstorms very often, and sometimes you get hurricanes, but rarely a supercell. I have never yet seen a tornado, but I want 2.

[awesomelightning]

are you greek? are you orthodox? did u believe zeus did that?haha!