Occurrence of rare lightning events during Hurricane Nicholas (2021)
Timothy Logan,
Jacob Hale,
Sydney Butler
et al.
Abstract:Hurricane Nicholas was classified as a Category 1 tropical cyclone (TC)
at 0000 UTC on 14 September 2021 and made landfall along the upper Texas
Gulf Coast at 0530 UTC with maximum sustained winds of 33 m s-1. Much of
the electrical activity during Nicholas was monitored by the Houston
Lightning Mapping Array (HLMA) network. Deep convection developed in the
rainband at 1700 UTC on 13 September, diminished by 2030 UTC, and
re-intensified after 2200 UTC. At 2004 UTC (13 September), a curved
megaflash (~220 km) w… Show more
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