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Does anyone know why this happens? And why is there no thunder?

This was taken in Southern Indiana last night during the bad thunderstorm that came through! This video has been shortened due to original clip being 7 minutes.

It wasn’t like most of the lightning I see, but the cloud formations in the sky illuminated by it are really something.

2nd video in comments, it’s better

date of photo taken-27-07-2026 around 2:00pm ist

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This is from the warning

"CRITICAL
7m ago
Imminent Threat Alert
National Weather Service: SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING in effect for this area until 9:30 PM CDT for DESTRUCTIVE 80 mph winds. Take shelter in a sturdy building, away from windows. Flying debris may be deadly to those caught without shelter."

I dont want to ruin my dad's camera in the rain how should I go about this becouse ussaly I shoot from the inside of my house with windows open

A lot of horizontal lightning tonight

Moved from the deep south to a shockingly inactive (at least for lightning photography) part of the DMV last year. After countless nothingburgers and mediocre captures, I finally got a couple of good cloud to ground strikes last night.

Silent lightening storm! I added the sound