This day took me by surprise as a relaxing evening before a midnight shift was soon interupted by freuquent rumbles of thunder. I glanced outside to observe vivid white CGs and quickly headed out the door to some familiar foregrounds. The high based convection soon overtook my position so I relocated along MO Hwy 7, just south of MO Hwy. 50. The lightning frequency had diminished somewhat from the early activity, however there were enough visible strikes for a few keeper stills.