Storm Reports - Wednesday 18th August 2004

[thunderstrike]

Massive storm at 2am this morning some of the explosions sounded like theyd smash a few windows

[Kentish Snowgirl]

I'm not far from you, started heavy rain about 1.15, then lightning and thunder, some quite close on and off for next hour or so.

[thunderstrike]

ahh whereabouts in kent?

[Nick F]

Had a thunderstorm starting around 1:30am and lasting over an hour , extremely heavy rain came in pulses - most of the thunder and lightning towards the end of the storm.

[kold weather]

Same here Nick although I got about 15 mins before,decent storm,the best for a month though.

The rain came down very hard and with gusts as well of strong wind making it look that bit more impressive.

Stil needed that thunderstorm,to get over missing so many.

[matty8]

Had a decent storm here lahst night at about 2 or 3am. Some big rumbles of thunder and heavy rain.

[Great Plum]

Had a bit of a storm in Reigate last night around 2am - sufficiently loud thunder to wake me up!

[Convection currents]

We had torrential rain which lasted about 30mins from about 11ish

We just had some more torrential rain but with a couple rumbles of thunder, and a couple flashes of lightning.....it's still rainin' and a bit of thunder still.

Hopefully, there'll be more to come later on

[Supercell]

Heavy shower with thunder

[Electrical Steve]

VERY heavy shower, accompanied by 3 rumbles of thunder just passed over heading apprx NW. Looks like we caught the edge, as it heads trowards Glasgow city centre(ish).

Steve

Er, make that 4 rumbles now....one loud enough to scare me out of my chair!

[SnowJoke]

few rumbles of thunder here to now, not gonna do that much i think seems to be moving off pretty fast :cry:

[Sonia G]

Had two rumbles and a couple of flashes

[Andy Bown]

Just had a cracking little cell here

Gale force gusts, 4 rumbles of thunder and 2 overhead flashes of white lightning that showed up superbly on a very black cloud . Not really heavy rain here but it seemed to be torrential just about 200 yards away :shock:

Now bright and sunny again Storm moved off towards mid Wiltshire.

[Tim B]

A heavy shower just passed over which lasted all of 5 minutes.

I can hear thunder rumbling out of it now.

[Electrical Steve]

That cell was pretty slow moving, so I was able to see two brilliantly lit CG strikes. The pulse of rain was short-lived, but pretty hefty and the rumblings were almost constant at one point.

I think Glasgow will be enjoying a fantastic light show, if that was just the trailing edge I got.

You lucky people!!!

Steve

Here's what was on its way (hope I linked it right)

[Cakie]

Some big rumbles are starting here and it's getting very dark

[Robert H]

HAHAHAH SENT HOME FROM WORK!!!

THE PLACE IS FLOODED!!!

I have seen the heaviest rain I have ever seen, it was unbelievable, the streets and places about including my work got flooded

CG lightning and defining thunder was very frequent.

What a year for storms!!!

[Electrical Steve]

Yep Robert, if you were in or around central Glasgow I can well believe that! Saw the bulk of it heading your way and wished I was there :cry:

All we seem to be seeing here are storms forming and moving away, or litterally just catching its edge as it passes by.

Steve

[Cakie]

:shock: OMG

We just had a strike of lightening then Thunder that made the windows and roof vibrate. That was a big one.

[rob_weiss]

storm passing to my north here ATM a few flashes of lightning, some loudish rumbles, heavy rain.

[lightningminx]

A few rumbles of thunder heard at 3 o'clock.

The skies gradually got darker, then the heavens opened.

Heavy rain, almost continuous thunder and several flashes.

Eased off about 5 minutes ago, and seems to have passed.

However there's another bank of dark cloud heading this way.

I can still hear thunder from previous storm.

[Electrical Steve]

Send it on up

[MK_Vikki]

Had heavy down pours all day, but the sky is really dark holding loads more rain to the west of me. Had a few rummbles of thunder but nothing uch has happened as yet but have a gut feeling its brewing

[lightningminx]

Headed your way now Steve!

A corker of a storm - several cgs and lots of thunder to shake the shack

[Electrical Steve]

Fab - yer a good sport for sending it up! Posted a few pics in the gallery, of the cell that literally passed in front my house earlier.

Steve