Date: 03-09-2002
Time: 17:04 BST
Location: Macclesfield, Cheshire UK
Type: Convectional Multicell
Documented by: Mark Seltzer
Equipment: Samsung VP-H65 Video Camera
Footage Quality: VHS

Storm Statistics: T0043.doc
Event Timeline: T0043events.xls

Slow moving showers rolled over the Pennines in the afternoon developing as they moved in an unstable easterly air flow fed in by a weak low pressure system sitting over Brittany. This particular cell that hit the south side of Macclesfield at 17:04 gave a few close weak C-G discharges, one of which was caught on camera. The lightning didn’t show up particularly well as it was generally very bright and there was a thick rain curtain making visibility poor.

The shower wave then developed further as it moved southwest with a view of back-building cells to the south.

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