A strong display of pixies , gnomes and blue starters over Kansas Severe storm 9/27/2019

I captured a number of pixies, gnomes and blue starters in the convective dome of a severe storm in Kansas 9/27/2019 . Over a three hour period,three separate occasions of rapid development of the overshooting top led to purple / blue glows from within and then a display of pixies. From Lyons et al 2003, I would consider the flat flashes to be pixies, the small plumes to be gnomes and the significantly larger plume at the end (which lasted 4 times as long as the others) to be a blue starter. When slowed dow
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