Lightning

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The National Weather Service has issued an advisory for Natrona County. Today and tonight there is a strong chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of the area. Local heavy rain is possible. The most numerous storms will be on Thursday with potential local flooding...

Several readers sent in photos and videos of last nights terrifying and beautiful lightning storms. They pushed hard through Natrona County and resulted in multiple fires.

Terrifying and beautiful!

The big threat is going to be the large hail. Sorry, daffodils.

Right now, Casper is in the midst of a lightning storm that has to be seen to be believed.

One of YouTube's most famous storm chasers was recently in Wyoming where he captured a wild lightning storm as it happened over Devil's Tower.

No one was injured in the blaze.

I can't remember what day this happened last week, but if you were in Converse County, you had almost constant lightning one night. This guy captured a video of what the skies looked like.

This is one of the craziest stories that I have ever heard about, and as I was reading it I just couldn't believe that things didn't turn out so much worse for this doctor who was struck by lightning and had no idea what had happened.

The Mount Washburn Fire Lookout is located southwest of Mammoth Hot Springs and north of Madison Junction.