Observations of lightning in convective supercells within tropical storms and hurricanes

Abstract

Several case studies confirm the long-held opinion that lightning is rather common within the outer rainbands. The CG events are associated with convective supercells, whose anvil canopies can often obscure much of the underlying storm. Near-eyewall CG bursts preceding periods of intensification were noted in Hurricanes Diana (1984) and Florence (1988). These supercells appeared to be the trigger for the development of a closed circulation that formed several hours after the apparent low pressure center made landfall, -from Authors