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Kaboom! Lightning over Clearwater Beach

18 August

A huge storm cell that stretched across a broad area of Central Florida produced a lightning show late Tuesday afternoon. At its peak, the storm produced about 1,000 lightning strikes every 15 minutes, mostly in the Gulf. Times photographer Jim Damaske captured several impressive strikes from a vantage point near the Clearwater Memorial Causeway bridge, looking across the harbor toward Clearwater Beach.

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