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Nature is Dangerous

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Lightning
Sid Perkins, Science Magazine • Fri 2016 Sep 16, 6:36pm

…scientists have just announced new world records for distance and duration of single lightning flashes… The distance champ… leapt to life just south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the middle of a long line of midafternoon thunderstorms on 20 June 2007 and then shot westward nearly to the Texas border—a distance of …almost 200 miles… In addition to its cloud-to-cloud travels, the discharge also sent at least 13 bolts down to the ground,…

Just your everyday Oklahoma weather.
counton2.com • Thu 2009 May 14, 11:59am

Twisting TwisterNews crews in Oklahoma captured a tornado forming as severe weather rolled through that state. [video]

signonsandiego.com • Fri 2009 Mar 27, 11:18pm

A major spring blizzard plodding eastward over the Southern Plains shut down major highways Friday and paralyzed the region as residents braced for up to a foot of snow, freezing 45-mph winds and massive snowdrifts.