A strong display of pixies , gnomes and blue starters over Kansas Severe storm

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 down you can pick out a small channel after the large plume on the last one. Recent documents from the THOR project describe the pixies/ blue TLE's as perhaps being caused by the largely positively charged clouds being pushed into the largely negative screening layer above. So neat to capture such a display as described in the STEP's program papers from 2000. NFB, contact for usage

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