Late night, on the way home from a forecast shift, featured an elevated multicell storm cluster flashing furiously, hurling forked cloud-to-ground strokes across the semi-rural square miles of east Norman. It was well worth the stop, not only to observe and photograph, but to listen. Sound took many seconds to cross the miles, rendering anticipation after each flurry of flashes for the resonating booms that followed from these tall, intense discharges. A fellow forecaster, who lived over that way and didn’t get out to shoot, later complained about being awakened repeatedly by all the noise. Shortly over 20 years later, I’d head out for more fun with loud, elevated storms late at night in central Oklahoma.
Norman OK (1 Jun 99) Looking SE
35.2325, -97.4057