kinda reminds me of a lighting storm i went through in Nebraska on I-80 about 25 years ago. shit was so intense it blinded you, me and other drivers stopped on the shoulder till it passed.
Yeah some impressive thunderstorms roll through here. People wonder how anyone can deal living in tornado alley, the tornadoes are rare enough and you usually get a few really good lightning shows (and awesome clouds) every year.
Best ones (for enjoyment) are when the ground strikes are far off in the distance or when they stay in the clouds like the ones in the gifs mostly did. Not fun when you're getting strikes in your vicinity.
A new windfarm went up about 15-20 miles West, wonder if those attract lightning. Can see them blinking from the hill to the East, so could be fun to watch a nice lightning storm roll over that area from there if they do.
I was looking at the radar last night and seen a hell of a storm in that area around Oklahoma and Kansas. Was this from last night?
This was in Northeast Kansas (near the Nebraska & Missouri borders) about a month ago (4/24 according to the dashcam time stamp). Have had a few pretty good storms roll through, thankfully nothing too crazy although some places were getting baseball size hail and 70mph sustained wind. Don't think there's been much tornado activity though, thankfully.
We got some flash flooding one early morning. Here's a pic of how high the river was a few hours later that morning (its normally a good 10 feet lower)
I think a couple of years back we had a microburst blow through the neighborhood, it ripped a very large tree right out of the ground just down the block, but we didn't get any wind damage. Watching a heavy rain go completely horizontal is generally not a fun situation though.
