Tennessee Thunderstorm, Blue Hour Edition: Lightning Recorded as Radio, Art Print

The same real thunderstorm, in electric blue and white.

On June 9, 2026, a homebuilt VLF radio antenna in rural Tennessee caught five minutes of a passing storm. Every lightning strike sends out a burst of very low frequency radio, called a sferic, and this print is that recording drawn as a spectrogram: five rows, one minute each. Every thin vertical line is a single lightning strike.

The Blue Hour Edition renders the storm in cold electric blues, the color most of us picture when we think of lightning. Nothing illustrated, nothing generated: just the storm, exactly as the radio heard it.

• Recorded June 9, 2026, 5:04 PM, 1.5–16 kHz
• Museum-quality matte paper, rich blacks
• Unframed: ships rolled in a protective tube
• Framed: choose a black, natural oak or white wood frame; arrives ready to hang with a clear acrylic front and hanging hardware
• Printed to order, usually ships in 2–5 business days

Part of the Tennessee Thunderstorm series: also available in Original, Northern and Ember editions, and as a three-panel triptych.