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I don't think so - from the sound of the report it seems like a large multicell system, perhaps an MCS. Although supercells can produce intense lightning, multicells are equally as capable of spectacular lightning.
Thunderstorm of 9th/10th July 1923
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Don't imagine that there would have been thunder from every flash of lightning.
I remember a storm like this with a couple of flashes every second that lasted four hours. It was Hockley in Essex, not far from Southend-on-Sea in June 1977. It started at 1am after two earlier thunderstorms and finished at 5am. The final stages there was just continuous lightning for two hours with very little thunder.
I remember a storm like this with a couple of flashes every second that lasted four hours. It was Hockley in Essex, not far from Southend-on-Sea in June 1977. It started at 1am after two earlier thunderstorms and finished at 5am. The final stages there was just continuous lightning for two hours with very little thunder.
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A report from Spencer Russell
"The storm apparently occurred at a high altitude and a very marked feature was the predominance of cloud to cloud discharges. The cloud forms were altostratus, altocumulus and false cirrus..."
"The storm apparently occurred at a high altitude and a very marked feature was the predominance of cloud to cloud discharges. The cloud forms were altostratus, altocumulus and false cirrus..."
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 06:32
From the 11th July 1923 Daily Mirror
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:21
summer, on 05 July 2012 - 06:32, said:
From the 11th July 1923 Daily Mirror
That particular lightning shot, was it taken from that thunderstorm or was it a general lightning picture used to illustrate the frequency of the lightning?
