I've been working on some lightning tutorials and they use a scatter node to scatter points on the surface and then use a add sop to create some lines. I have a circular radius that I would like the lightning to shoot from the center outward, but I having trouble with it. I've made the normals shoot off in an outward direction on all sides, but the way the add sop puts down the lines is random. Is there a way to make it more uniform so they are going the direction of the normals?

Create a tube: set it to Polygons, connectivity to columns, height to 0 and radii to 1 and 0.1
Append a point jitter node: set its axis to 1, 0, 1 and reduce the scale.

Thanks Konstantin, that's awesome.