50,000 Lightning Strikes in Southeast

The lightning maps are lit up this afternoon in the Southeast.

2-HOUR STRIKES IN THE SOUTHEAST

Nearly 50,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes showed up on the Mobile, Alabama radar scope alone in the last two hours. Below is a detailed look at Mississippi and Alabama courtesy AccuWeather.com LightningPlus, a service which shows lightning strikes in real-time to street level.

50,000 STRIKES OVER ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI

The WeatherMatrix StormMatrix listed 1,653 storms detected by NEXRAD radar nationally. Despite all the lightning, the storms are not unusually severe so far... the government's Storm Prediction Center did not even issue a Slight Risk of severe thunderstorms for anywhere in the nation this afternoon, and only 32 severe weather reports had been received as of this writing. About 100 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have been issued, which pales in comparison to this spring's outbreaks, and few were in effect at any one time.

All of AccuWeather.com's lightning data is provided by the U.S. Precision Lightning Network.