Severe thunderstorms and a few supercells with close lightning and tornado warnings moved through the St. Louis metro area on Thursday, April 18, 2024.

Shot list:

1.) High speed camera shot of a close lightning strike in Ferguson, Missouri (St. Louis metro), captured at 6,002 frames per second.

2.) Another close lightning strike to a tree in Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO captured by dashcam (St. Louis metro)

3,4.) Realtime and 30x timelapse from dashcam of a tornadowarned mesovortex near Hoffman, Illinois, east of St. Louis.

5.) Tornado sirens from the storms in Centralia, Illinois (southern Illinois)

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