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June 10, 2012: Storms were bouncing around Florida on June 10, but I was waiting and hoping they might come to me. I went out about 9 p.m. EDT to intercept a severe storm moving toward the east coast. I couldn't get in good position to see cloud-to-ground lightning, which mostly seemed buried in rain, but as the storm appeared to die on radar, the lightning crawlers started in the anvil. I ended up with a lot more than I expected! Share

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With a severe storm headed toward Brevard County, Florida, the night of June 10, 2012, I drove west of Cocoa to get a look.	From central Cocoa, the clouds looked ominous.	Lightning lit up the sky.
I drove south to Rockledge as the storm moved south.	Even as it weakened, it produced nice anvil crawlers.	This one seemed to explode from one point.
Out of the tree...	A few mammatus could be discerned behind the bolts.	Wow! Love this lightning crawler.
It's interesting how lightning crawlers persist or get better as a storm weakens.	Here, the lightning seems to come from all sides.	I wish I'd had a camera pointing straight up for this lightning!

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