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Lightning Safety Awareness Week - June 22-28, 2008
Lightning Safety, National Weather Service (NWS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce
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LIGHTNING PROVING LETHAL IN THE U.S. THIS SUMMER
NOAA News Online (Story 2482),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce [ 26 July 2005 ]
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Key to Lightning Deaths: Location, Location, Location
John Roach, National Geographic News,
NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM,
National Geographic Society
[ 22 June 2004 ]
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35 Years of Lightning Deaths & Injuries
National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI)
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Boating - Lightning Protection
Professor William J. Becker, Agricultural Engineering Department,
Florida Cooperative Extension Service,
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS),
University of Florida (UF)
courtesy of
National Ag Safety Database (NASD)
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Coaches & Sports Officials Guide to Lightning Safety (brochure)
National Weather Service (NWS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce
(Adobe PDF file)
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DISTRIBUTIONS OF LIGHTNING-CAUSED CASUALTIES AND DAMAGES SINCE 1959 IN THE UNITED STATES
Ronald L. Holle, Raúl E. López & E. Brian Curran,
11th Conference on Applied Climatology,
American Meteorological Society (AMS),
courtesy of the University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC)
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Human Voltage
Science@NASA,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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KIDS’ LIGHTNING INFORMATION AND SAFETY
Sabrina, Anubis Productions International
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Lightning Injury Research Program
Mary Ann Cooper, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Lightning Kills - Play It Safe
John Jensenius,
National Weather Service (NWS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce
(MS Word document)
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Lightning Safety Success Stories
Lightning Safety, National Weather Service (NWS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce
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National Lightning Safety Institute
National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI)
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STRUCKBYLIGHTNING.ORG
Struckbylightning.org, Inc.
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THOR GUARD - INTEGRATED LIGHTNING PREDICTION AND WARNING SYSTEMS
THOR GUARD, Inc.
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thunderstorms...tornadoes...lightning...
Nature’s Most Violent Storms
A PREPAREDNESS GUIDE, National Weather Service (NWS),
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
&
the American Red Cross
(Adobe PDF file)
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Updated Recommendations for Lightning Safety - 2002
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
(Adobe PDF file)
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Updated recommendations for lightning safety - 1998
Ronald L. Holle, Raúl E. López, & Christoph Zimmermann,
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:
Vol. 80, No. 10 - October, 1999 issue
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The words tornado and hurricane tend to evoke fear,
especially in regions prone to these storms. By way of contrast, many
people think nothing of leaving the protection of a building during a
raging thunderstorm to dash to their cars. Yet lightning,
overlooked as a threat by many, is responsible, on average, for
more deaths each year than are tornadoes and hurricanes combined
(National Weather Service statistics, 1940-1991). Additionally, lightning
injures far more often than it kills. Injuries induced by lightning
can be painful, debilitating and oftentimes permanent; frequently,
significant damage will be done to the central nervous system or the brain.
Why, then, do we take such risks with lightning? Ignorance is the primary
cause; most people simply do not know the potential danger they are
placing themselves in when they venture outdoors during a thunderstorm
— or when they pick up the phone indoors or decide to do the dishes
while a thunderstorm is in progress. Add to this the fact that lightning
is capable of some very erratic behavior. People have been struck by
lightning when no clouds were visible from their location. Lightning can,
in fact, travel many miles from its parent cloud.
Lightning protection and lightning safety links to the right offer
information, statistics and, of most importance, safety tips on how to
keep yourself and others protected when lightning is or may potentially
be present. These lightning protection and lightning safety articles and
websites also describe precautions you can take in advance to insure you
are not caught in an exposed area when a thunderstorm strikes. Since
thunderstorms and the lightning that accompanies them can occur anywhere
in the U.S. as well as in most areas of the world, it is extremely
important that you learn the lightning safety rules necessary to properly
shield yourself, your loved ones and valuable electronic equipment against
injury, death or destruction by a force of nature that can be an
exceedingly quick and lethal killer.
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