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June 5, 2014 10:12 pm GMT

Massive Thunderstorms Produce 5,500 Lightning Strikes in 30 Minutes

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A huge cluster of thunderstorms, containing winds strong enough to tear the roofs off buildings as well as large hail and nearly continuous flashes of lightning, barreled across several states beginning on Thursday morning.

The storms, which are essentially a group of towering thunderheads that have joined forces, have caused damage from Kansas to Arkansas. The storm complex is known to meteorologists as a "Mesoscale Convective System" or MCS, and it is a type of storm system typically seen a few times of year in the Midwest during the spring and summer season. However, today's MCS has been particularly well-defined, as if it came out of a meteorology textbook, and especially fierce Read more...

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