Best Thunderstorms

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Florida storms look good. The ones in the Midwest seem more deadly with a higher risk if damaging supercells and huge tornadoes.

[FVWinters]

If you like a grand light show and lots of ear shattering thunder, the Pacific Coast of the United States is not for you. However....
Around ten in the evening of July 4, 1975 we in Oregon's Willamette Valley, had one for the books. A batch of warm moist and very unstable air blew in on us from the southeast and generated towering thunderheads that grew to nearly 70000 feet. We had cloud-to-cloud and ground-to-cloud strikes from hell to breakfast. Strike rate was something like 30 to 40 times a minute during the peak and we weren't even in the worst of it. As it was the lightning was intense enough and frequent enough that one almost didn't need headlights to drive. Some strikes were so close that the thunder blast shook the apartment I was living in enough to toss pictures and a clock from our walls. Points south got truly blasted, worse even than we did, and despite this being a wet summer, it took weeks to put out all the fires that got started. Truly a fireworks display to end all others!
It was exciting at first because thunderstorms of any magnitude are rare here, but it got redundant and then old pretty quickly. It was the equal of the worst thunder boomers I have ever seen anywhere else and I have traveled extensively enough throughout the lower Midwest and South to have seen the best either had to offer.

[NorthStarDelight]

Probably the most vivid light show seen in modern times was the Labor day Derecho that roared across Upstate New York in early September of 1998. Winds were reported up to 120 mph, and while the storm blasted down the Mohawk Valley east of Syracuse, lighting was estimated at 10 to 20 times per second. Yes, you read that right, up to 20 flashes every second.

There are accounts of truckers traveling westbound on the Thruway and being awed at the full daylight conditions in the middle of the night due to the approaching storm, just before their trucks jackknifed when they ran into a wall of 120 mph winds.

What a storm!