Observations of VHF source powers radiated by lightning

By R. Thomas, P. Krehbiel, W. Rison, T. Hamlin, J. Harlin, D. Shown. 2001

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Overview of Recent Progress in Lightning Research and Lightning Protection (2009, background): “[37], the estimated peak source power was greater than 300 kW.”
Lightning mapping observation of a terrestrial gamma‐ray flash (2010, background): “Similar events early in IC flashes with peak powers in excess of 100 kW may occur with narrow bipolar events (NBEs) between opposite charge layers in active storms [Thomas et al., 2001], while we are not sure whether that is the case here due to the lack of appropriate measurements.”
Accuracy of the Lightning Mapping Array (2003, background): “One reason for this is that the radiated source powers P of natural lightning have an approximate 1/ P distribution [ Thomas et al. , 2001] so that most located sources are low-power events that will tend to be detected by a minimal number of stations (often but not necessarily the closest…”
Lightning location relative to storm structure in a leading‐line, trailing‐stratiform mesoscale convective system (2005, methodology): “The radiated, or transmitted, power from each source is estimated essentially by the same method described by Thomas et al. [2001] , except that we also take into account the antenna gain as a function of elevation angle.”