Thanks to mobile phone technology and the like we get some pretty awesome thunderstorm footage on youtube, but what are your favorites? 

After we didnt see any thunderstorms materialize here in the South I thought I'd post a few good ones to start off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6R5JQuHAE0 An impressive storm even for Chicago's standards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV02dns5H-Y An awesome supercell chase in Eastern Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2oJStP4f5Q Closer to home here is a rare supercell in the UK

Lets hope this summer is more thundery then last years poor effort here!

This is by far one of the best - if not the best - thunderstorm video I have seen. I was actually kind of shocked, lol.

https://youtu.be/Z6R5JQuHAE0

That storm had over 80,000 strikes alone, but surprisingly no injuries or deaths at all.

this the video I was looking for when stumbled upon the one above 👍🏼 there is another one similar but more rural and it's kind of like a rave. 

On 30 October 2008 Ottery St Mary in East Devon was hit by a lightning storm that delivered 2ft of hail in 2 hours. A fire engine got stuck in a 6ft hail drift.

There were videos around at the time in the media but I can't find them anymore. But on this page you can see a reporter standing on the hail 12 hours later.

Clip 4 of 7 http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITN/2008/10/30/T30100839/?v=0#videoPopUpDiv

I'm not sure that there's too much information about this storm but there's a few write ups. Not too much info in them though.

The evening of the 29th October started very much normal with just steady rain and a temperature around 6°C. This carried on until 23:45 when the first flash of ligntning occurred, and it was directly overhead. The rain intensity then started to increase and the lightning became progeressively more frequent with overhead flashes accompanied by immediate, deafening claps of thunder every 30 seconds or so.

http://ottervalleyweather.me.uk/gallery/weatherevents/hailstorm30thOct2008/hailstorm301008.htm

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/oct2008

I think that was 2ft of hail at the bottom of streets / Water collection points - stuff which was carried down hill with the torrents of water.  Ive seen similar videos in America.  The hail then freezes solid like concrete due to the shear volume.

I wonder what kind of CAPE values you'd need to get a storm like that? Pretty amazing

The lightning capital of the world is the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially to the East near the great lakes. That area receives a whopping 150+ lightning strikes per sq km every year.

No this is the Lightning capital of the wold, 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning