Lightning in the U.S. South

Dangerous thunderstorms and destructive tornadoes lashed the U.S. South amid a sprawling winter storm in December 2022.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Lightning in the U.S. South.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Lightning Imaging Sensor at the Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC) and GOES-16 imagery courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 16, 2022
Data acquired December 13, 2022