On March 27th, 2021, a series of severe thunderstorms crossed middle Tennessee, causing widespread flooding and putting on an impressive lightning show. While most of the lightning stayed up in the clouds, the occasional bolt went to ground, and "cloud crawlers" put on a spectacular display every so often, too. Later in the evening, planes began landing at BNA again, and were flying directly below the storm. One aircraft got a giant bolt right in front of the windshield, which must have been an amazing (AND scary) sight from the cockpit!

This footage was filmed with a Moto G7 smarphone, which was the ony thing handy at the time. Lightning is notoriously difficult to capture well on video, mostly due to the rolling shutter (which causes flashing and blacked-out areas) but the little device did remarkably well for a smartphone camera!

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