This website works best with a newer web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer is not supported by this website.

Category: Lightning

Significant flash flooding in the Milwaukee metro area, and 2 hikers injured by a lightning strike near Palmyra, Wisconsin

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced very heavy rainfall (text list | radar-estimated rainfall), with 4 sites reporting over 11 inches across parts of the metro Milwaukee area, during the 12-hour period from early in the evening on 09 August into the early morning hours on 10 August 2025 —... Read More

Tropical Depression 2 becomes Tropical Storm Barry in the far southwestern Gulf of Mexico

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared and Visible images (above) showed persistent deep convection (with sporadic lightning activity) near the center of circulation of Tropical Depression 2 (TD2), which developed in the Bay of Campeche (just off the coast of Mexico) around 2100 UTC on 28 June 2025. Periodic convective bursts contained... Read More