Tennessee Thunderstorms in VLF: Storm Clip Pack

You can't hear lightning's radio pulses with your ears, but an antenna can.

These 10 recordings come from a homebuilt 8-foot VLF loop antenna on a farm in rural Tennessee, listening below the AM radio band during the summer storms of 2026. Every pop and crackle is a real lightning strike, some a few miles away and some thousands of miles away, carried to the antenna between the ground and the ionosphere and turned straight into sound. Nothing is synthesized.

• 10 clips × 45 seconds, the busiest moments of each storm
• 48 kHz / 24-bit WAV, powerline hum removed, levels matched
• Spectrogram artwork for every clip (each bright line is one strike)
• Royalty-free for music, film, games, podcasts and video

Good for sci-fi sound design, glitch and ambient music, space and weather documentaries, or just hearing a thunderstorm the way a radio does.

The top recording was captured on June 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM, while the storm was showing up live on the station's dashboard.