HWY 52 – HWY 287 Lightning Storm Image 29. A lightning thunderstorm cell with lightning striking and mean looking clouds. Lightning weather photography. Lightning fact: The chances of being hit by lightning are 1 in 700,000. ( but why take chances!). A cloud-to-ground lightning channel can be 2 to 10 miles long. Voltage in a cloud- to- ground strike is 100 million to 1 billion volts. […]