CLOSE positive CG lighting strike with loud thunder! 

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Closest I've been to a lighting strike was aproximately 100 or so feet away. Sitting outside on my porch, I simultaneously heard a sizzle (like white noise on a TV) and saw from the corner of my eye a white blue light (over the roof/on top of the roof of my neihgbors through the tree tops) which coensided with a massive oversize static electricity POP, followed by two equally oversized cannon booms from the sky above me. One of the cats (Don) came running onto the porch, let him in, where he promptly threw up. The air had a smell, like an electric warmth. Scared the whole neighborhood thanksgiving morning.

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Thanks Dan…that is the closest I would want to be to a Positive lightning strike. 600,000 Amps is nothing I want going through my body…😊…or my radios. 73!

Looks like the best NLDN match is a +CG with two terminations at 7:11:11 AM CDT; first 41kA stroke ~1.25mi to your ESE, second 54kA stroke ~1.4mi to your NW (assuming your location was exactly at the intersection you shared on Twitter). You also had a flash with both positive and negative strokes detected 2-3mi to your WSW at 7:06:22 AM CDT.

The loudest clap of thunder I ever heard is when I got hit in my living room,A bolt of lightning blew a 6ft.around hole in the garage roof,killed a 15yrs old boy and let me live,I got a lot to be thankful for, I got hit by one of the feelers off the bolt,The boy got hit by the main bolt if you know what I mean

A few minutes before I commented this lightning struck so close that my whole house started shaking and the sound was so loud Amy heart dropped. While my mom was washing the dishes she thought the lightning came from the other side because there was light all over

What was that crackling noise right before the bolt struck

Cool video man ! I was still watching your El Reno video few mins ago. I hope that ... when you have a bad day, you look back at this footage to reminds you that life is precious haha. Have a nice day!

geez, you know that electric field is so strong when it caused upwards leaders on a tower what looks like several hundred metres away

Last night here in the northern part of The Netherlands I tought a nuke went off. No rain or wind, only a flash that lit up my room trough the closed curtains and then a huge explosion, I still heard it echo 30 seconds later.Only 1 time, nothing before or after. Didnt sound like lightning at all. Scared the living crap out of me. 😂

A majority of lightning strikes to people are survivable, but a direct hit from a positive CG is almost invariably fatal. If you hear thunder like this and you're outside, get indoors quick, or in a vehicle.

Cool!

Hi, I'm from Russia, I've been watching for a long time. I write as best I can because I don't know English well. Your videos are beautiful, sometimes I watch them at night.

My closest encounter with lightning was during the pandemic and quarantine. I opened the window at night during a thunderstorm (which isn’t that smart) and in a split second I everything turned into day. It was that close that there wasn’t a sound delay!

You can see How its Strikes Far But basically near the wires

Closest lightning strike in our house was a mile away or more miles

Cool step leader.

When a positive strike happens, It sounds like a bomb just got detonated

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Tower looks like an AM antenna. Probably a good thing it didn't get the full brunt of the return stroke. Even though there is protection, such as spark gaps, grounding, etc. High kA positives can do bad things at transmitter sites.

this is the sound that you hear when someone drops the toilet seat at night

Residental Propane tank explosion

I heard something exactly like this up close it was so loud made me believe atom bombs were real

The loudest thunder I ever heard was a house got stroke in their backyard and i ran inside my house

I was on our loading dock water was running over the cover and under a door where our main electric line's were i was pushing the water off with a squeeze and lighting hit a tree about a 100 feet a little more or less when i looked up i saw sparks around a pole light i dropped the squeeze and went back into the building the tree didn't die it peeled a little bark off a section but didn't kill it

How tall is the radio tower?

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Sound like a bomb went off during war time.

CG doesn't mean computer graphics here right?

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