[at-l] Weather

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 10:36 AM 6/18/2004 -0400, Mark Hudson wrote:
>One of the flashes was
>simultaneous with a very large concussion of thunder that seemed to lift us
>off the floor of the shelter.
>Leaving the shelter in the morning we found a lightning blasted tree on the
>short side trail taking us back to the AT, maybe about a hundred feet in
>front of the shelter. Now, I don't know for sure that it was the tree that
>got blasted the night before, but neither of us remembered noticing it on
>the way in...

I had lightening blast one in my yard a couple of years back. The was zero 
time between the flash and the bang which sounded like a bomb went off in 
the yard. Given your description I'd say you are correct that was the tree 
that got hit.