Twenty years ago this week, Rich Thompson and I were disappointed at having driven down to north Texas for a generally unimpressive, fuzzy supercell, that turned out to be the next storm north of the tornadic one in Ft. Worth. A buildup of a few elevated storms north of the warm front in southern Oklahoma, and quick decision to pull off for some lightning photography, saved the trip. We shot several film slides of tall, brilliant discharges, including this: one of the most wildly complicated single flashes I’ve seen or photographed. Yes, two cloud-to-ground strikes at once, and not very far away either!
