Southeast CONUS One Hour Lightning Strike
A rolling one-hour view of cloud-to-ground lightning activity across the Southeast, divided into four consecutive 15-minute strike maps.
Southeast Cloud-to-Ground Lightning
Read the four panels from oldest to newest. Together they cover the previous hour.
Track Lightning Evolution
Breaking the hour into quarter-hour periods makes it easier to see whether thunderstorm electrical activity is increasing, decreasing or shifting toward Eastern North Carolina.
Start with the 45–60 minute panel and move through the sequence to the latest 15-minute panel.
These panels focus specifically on lightning strikes reaching the ground.
Compare the position of strike clusters from panel to panel to identify the direction active storms are moving.
Expanding or increasingly dense strike clusters can indicate strengthening thunderstorm electrical activity.
Lightning Monitoring
Use the five-minute and density products when you need a different time scale.
Latest five-minute all-flash maps for Eastern NC and the Southeast.
Open →DensityLightningEastern NC and national lightning-density maps.
Open →RadarInteractive National RadarCompare the strike history with current thunderstorm structure and precipitation.
Open →SafetyNWS Lightning SafetyOfficial National Weather Service lightning-safety guidance.
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