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a lightning strike in a farm field in Oklahoma
October 4, 2012

Lightning, Oklahoma

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Near Guymon, Oklahoma Most storms move fast. This one crept over a farming community for more than an hour, bristling with electricity. "No two storms are the same," says James LaDue, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. "No two skies are either."

See more pictures from the July 2012 feature story "Epic Storms."


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Photograph by Mitch Dobrowner

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