Sounds nasty Chrissie. Is there any other damage, for instance outside to car windscreens etc?

Hope you are safe Marigold.

Awkwardly it was so hot I had no clothes on, so not gone exploring. Just sorting out the broken window and dogs. That was definitely right overhead!

Not all supercells have extreme rain rates Q for example

Low Precipitation (LP) Supercells

LP supercells usually form in dry regions, where there might be just enough moisture to form the storm, but not enough moisture to rain very hard. You can usually find the updraft on the rear flank (back) of the storm, and the meso will be more defined and obvious. On radar, an LP will not show up as a hook echo because there's not enough precipitation within the storm to provide the reflectivity. These storms might not look that strong, but they can pack a punch. LP supercells often produce tornadoes and large hail.

I'm barely surprised. To my NNW I'm counting 60 flashes of lightning a minute. The storm is at least 25 miles away from here.

Hopefully things will calm down for you soon.

I'm just amazed that I was able to see such an incredible show of distant lightning in that recent storm to the NW, from what looks like at least 50 miles away.  And sometimes could even see clear lightning strokes as well as lots of flickering lightning from high up in the storm cloud. At its most intense period, lightning was seen flashing multiple times per second from several different parts of the cloud.

Easily the best show of distant lightning I've ever seen.  Congrats to all those who were underneath it!

Here is a video I took of last nights distant thunderstorm

https://youtu.be/G395qSmc8JM

Malcolm
Wakefield & Gothenburg, SWE

Reports locally this morning of golf ball sized hail with the storm yesterday afternoon Neil. I watched the birth of the storm going from Congestus to fully fledged CB in a very short space of time. Thought I was back on the Plains, were it not for Radio 5 in the background. 

Looking South and it would appear fun and games are heading our way

It was just amazing - some of the hail stones had stuck together to make mega stones, the sound was amazing and the constant strobe lightning was unreal!

The garden is flattened, the trees have lost leaves and branches, the window is cracked and it looks like someone has bitten a chunk out of the wood! The car seems fine - strongly built German model!

Well the worst storm I have ever witnessed passed through Oakworth, Keighley last night at around 11:30pm!! I have never witnessed neither lightning or hail like it, at it's peak there were easily 70-80 flashes a minute and the largest hail I found were golf ball size. My car has noticeable dents on both the roof and bonnet this morning, trees were stripped of leaves and small branches and our next door neighbours conservatory roof now looks like a piece of Emmental cheese! Below are pics of some hail I found in our back garden, they were probably even larger as I didn't go outside until the storm had passed through and the temperature was still 21c even after the storm.

Looks like heavy showers/possible thunderstorms moving up from the south during the day.

Upper winds from the south and a surface drift from the NNW this morning, moving in to the complex currently heading for the Sussex coast.

I am intrigued by the cells that lie behind this area across NW France - discrete cells that could well have rotation judging by the radar signature.

Local news story covering the storm that passed over West Yorkshire last night - http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/13366080.PICTURES__Night_time_storms_and_giant_hailstones_captured_on_camera_across_Bradford_district/