A wicked storm that brought hail, waterspouts and torrential rain to the islands Monday night, also packed an electrical punch that rocked Oahu and Kauai.
Apparently lightning can strike twice.
"Yeah lightning can strike twice, it can strike 10-15 times in the same location," said Warning Coordinator Meteorologist Michael Cantin.
For the second time this year, Hawaii has experienced a spectacular electric show. In late February we saw nearly 21,000 lightning strikes in a five-hour window when a storm system stalled over Hawaii.
Monday night, Mother Nature was at it again.
"Each individual point represents a strike and what's kind of striking about this image right is here's the Big Island, Maui county, and then Oahu and Kauai are basically absorbed under the lightning strikes gives you an idea of how many we saw," said Cantin.
According to the Worldwide Lightning Detection system, the skies were busiest between 5 and 10 p.m.
"In total about 15,000 between that time period if you include that hour before from 4 p.m. it's almost 20,000," said Cantin.
