Airplane Footage Captures Explosive Lightning As Supercell Storm Batters Oklahoma

Video filmed by X user Ben Levine shows dramatic aerial footage from a Delta flight traveling from Seattle to New York as it passed a powerful supercell storm that had just struck Enid. The caption described the moment: “Flying past the storms that just hit Enid Oklahoma. Nuts.”

Recorded at night through an airplane window, with the red-lit Delta wing visible in the foreground, the unsteady handheld footage reveals a vast, dark storm cloud rising above a grid of glowing city lights below. Intense white and purple lightning repeatedly flashes within and beneath the cloud, briefly exposing its turbulent structure as the aircraft safely diverts around the storm.

A second video shared shortly afterward, filmed just before the first, captures the same system from another angle. It emphasizes the storm’s internal lightning and the stark contrast between the striking visuals from above and the destruction occurring on the ground.

The footage was taken on the evening of April 23, 2026, as the flight rerouted south to avoid a line of severe thunderstorms. The Enid area was hit by a strong tornado, with reports of injuries and damaged homes, as part of a wider severe weather outbreak across Oklahoma that night. The videos quickly spread online as viewers reacted to the rare perspective of the storm.