NOAA National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Lightning Safety & General Lightning Information:

• The NATIONAL LIGHTNING SAFETY INSTITUTE
• LIGHTNING FATALITIES, INJURIES, AND DAMAGE REPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1959-1994
• National Weather Service: Lightning Safety
• National Weather Service Training Center (Overall good lightning site - Safety, climatologies, research, etc.)
• National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters Lightning Links page
• National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL): Lightning
• Florida Lightning Center Lightning information for Florida
• Lightning Safety: 45th Weather Squadron, Kennedy Space Center
• Ron Holle - Lightning research scientist, previously with the National Severe Storms Laboratory
• Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research of the Atmosphere
• UCAR Lightning FAQ
• UCAR Lightning for Kids
• StruckByLightning.org
• Lightning Protection Institute

• Dr Mary Cooper (Lightning injury research at the Universi ty of Illinois)
• Lightning Data Center Centura Health, Denver Colorado
• Lightning Strike and Electrical Shock Victims, International

• Dr Chuck Doswells camping safety tips

• National Ag Safety Database: Boating - Lightning Protection

• Marshall Space Flight Center (Lightning detected from Space)
• The LISDAD project - what is it? - How it works
• Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
• NASA:  Type "Lightning" in the SEARCH area.

Real time/near real time lightning displays/probabilities

• Lightning probabilities from the NWS Techniques Development Lab (experimental)
• Vaisala - This is the private company which supplies real-time lightning data to the National Weather Service.