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What is Lightning?
Lightning Safety: Protecting Yourself, Your Family and Your Friends from Lightning: In this section, you will find information on:
 Safe locations during a lightning storm
Lightning safety plan of action
The "30/30" lightning safety rule
Outdoor risk reduction guidelines for individuals, small groups and large groups
First aid for lightning strike victims
If you are caught in the open during a lightning storm
Lightning and the Colorado mountains: camping safety
Lightning and boating
Lighting Safety: Protecting your Home from Lightning: In this section you will find information, courtesy of the American Meteorological Society, on:
Protecting your residence from Lightning
Lightning Protection Systems for the home
Lightning Casualty Case Studies in the state of Colorado: In this section, you will find meteorological case studies of lightning strike victims which occurred in the state of Colorado.
"BOLTS FROM THE BLUE": The most dangerous type of lightning!
NCAA Lightning Safety Guidlines:
Coaches, Atheletic Directors, Referees, and parents whose children participate in outdoor atheletic events are strongly encouraged to read this document.
Lightning Statistics: In this section, you will find information on:
Lightning injuries/fatalities day by day for Colorado
County by county statistics for Colorado
Tables and graphs of lightning casualty statistics for Colorado
Casualty statistics and lightning strike data for each state in the Nation
Lightning Flash Density maps: In this section, you will find information on:
Average number of lightning flashes per day, per month and per year for Colorado
Average number of lightning flashes per year for each county in Colorado
Average number of lightning flashes over the United States
Lightning Facts and Other Interesting Aspects of Lightning
Lightning Internet Links
Safety, Education, Science, etc
Additional Lightning Studies
Other topics:
Where Lightning Strikes - Total Lightning map of the world.
Click on the image below to see the latest LIS image
Plane being struck by lightning
Lightning Striking a building at close range:
NOTE: This is a video file (4.6mb). Broadband access is recommended
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This internet site is intended to serve as a resource for lightning information for the state of Colorado. Knowing more about lightning, its causes, and some basic safety rules can help you and your family avoid needless exposure to the dangers of lightning.
We hope that you find this information useful.
Please email your comments, questions, and suggestions to Steve.Hodanish@noaa.gov
This page is a part of the Lightning Program at National Weather Service Pueblo
"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off I sat and wondered..."
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Night Moves, from the album Nine Tonight
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