There is a lot happening in this seemingly innocuous night lightning slide: an overshooting top lit from within, silhouetted smoke from a lightning-started fire (at bottom left), precip cores glowing from frequent lightning within, and the loopy cloud-to-cloud strike at lower right. This was one segment of a squall line which was sparking almost continuously from the northeast to the south-southeast horizon. Pictures cannot capture the grandeur of witnessing in person such a sweeping display of atmospheric pyrotechnics!
2 SE Sugden OK (17 May 89) Looking ENE
34.0481, -97.9588