Though similar in brightness, distance and shape, these flashes aren’t identical, so we’ll call them fraternal twins. By the time we arrived at this vantage to shoot lightning, what had been a skinny, poorly organized, young supercell at sunset had latched onto the low-level jet and its associated high-helicity inflow layer. That fattened the storm a great deal and made it destructively severe, with 3-inch hail and at least one tornado (which we saw while driving) in its near future. Until then, however, it offered a spectacular lightning show from the forward-flank and vault regions.
5 SSE Brinkman OK (2 Apr 99) Looking N
34.9439, -99.505