Tennessee Thunderstorm lightning spectrogram print, framed with a white mat on a wall

Tennessee Thunderstorm: Lightning Recorded as Radio, Art Print

12×16 in
$40.00
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Tennessee Thunderstorm lightning spectrogram print, framed with a white mat on a wall
  • Tennessee Thunderstorm lightning spectrogram print, framed with a white mat on a wall
  • Tennessee Thunderstorm art print: five minutes of lightning shown as a purple spectrogram on black
  • Close-up of the lightning spectrogram rows on the print
  • Tennessee Thunderstorm lightning spectrogram print, framed with a white mat on a wall
  • Tennessee Thunderstorm art print: five minutes of lightning shown as a purple spectrogram on black
  • Close-up of the lightning spectrogram rows on the print
Tennessee Thunderstorm: Lightning Recorded as Radio, Art Print

Tennessee Thunderstorm: Lightning Recorded as Radio, Art Print

$40.00
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Five minutes of a real thunderstorm, turned into art.

On June 9, 2026, a storm rolled over rural Tennessee while a homebuilt VLF radio antenna was listening. Every lightning strike sends out a burst of very low frequency radio, called a sferic, and the antenna caught every one of them. This print is that recording, drawn as a spectrogram: five rows, one minute each. Every thin vertical line is a single lightning strike.

Nothing here is illustrated or generated. It's the storm itself, exactly as the radio heard it.

  • Recorded June 9, 2026, 5:04 PM, 1.5–16 kHz
  • Museum-quality matte paper, rich blacks
  • Ships unframed, rolled in a protective tube
  • Printed to order, usually ships in 2–5 business days

A one-of-a-kind piece for a ham radio shack, a science lover's wall, or anyone who's ever counted the seconds between flash and thunder.

Want to hear it? The audio from this storm is available as a sound pack in our shop.

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