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Posted at 06:30 PM ET, 06/17/2011

Thursday night storm photos

By Jason Samenow

A compilation of two photos shot back to back and merged via Photoshop. Taken in Rockville. By Jason Foster, @WeatherWarrior1 on Twitter.Thursday night’s storms, in addition to dumping large quantities of rain in a short time, put on quite the lightning show. Check out the photos above and below of the illuminated sky taken by Capital Weather Gang readers Jason Foster and Chris Shoemaker.

Lightning nearOld Town, Alexandria. Contributed by @ShoemakerChris via Twitter

By Jason Samenow | 06:30 PM ET, 06/17/2011

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