Lightning Strikes Nationwide

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
3742
Time:
02/20/03 16:00:00 EST
to
02/20/03 18:00:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
5891
Time:
02/20/03 21:00:00 EST
to
02/20/03 23:00:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
15941
Time:
02/21/03 09:00:00 EST
to
02/21/03 11:00:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
14523
Time:
02/22/03 09:30:00 EST
to
02/22/03 11:30:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
83
Time:
02/23/03 12:30:00 EST
to
02/23/03 14:30:00 EST

[StormCrazyIowan]

Not much activity tonight, especially not in my neck o' the woods! (Lightning activity, that is!)

[firefighter16]

Pretty Quiet up here to Jacki.

[StormCrazyIowan]

The SE has quite a few strikes this morn!

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
2225
Time:
03/07/03 11:00:00 EST
to
03/07/03 13:00:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
11
Time:
03/08/03 07:00:00 EST
to
03/08/03 09:00:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
5131
Time:
03/09/03 08:30:00 EST
to
03/09/03 10:30:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
1351
Time:
03/09/03 18:00:00 EST
to
03/09/03 20:00:00 EST

[northweststormchaser]

None lighting here.

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

none here either...havent seen lightning more than 5 times since September here.

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Quiet day for once!

Total Strikes:
69
Time:
03/10/03 08:30:00 EST
to
03/10/03 10:30:00 EST

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Total Strikes:
14
Time:
03/10/03 18:00:00 EST
to
03/10/03 20:00:00 EST

[chadtm80]

Cant wait to see your reports when we get our summer time thunderstorms here.

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

Me either....man this place will be up there with the numbers!

[chadtm80]

• Florida ranks first in the nation for lightning, with an average of 100 thunderstorm days per year. The lightning capitol of the world is the West coast of Africa, with as many as 295 thunderstorm days per year.

• Number of lightning strikes a day: 8 million

• Your chances of being struck by lightning in the United States are 1 in 600,000. But your chances of being struck in Florida are higher simply due to the state being the lightning capital of the United States. Florida averages 70 to 100 thunderstorm days a year. Orlando has 80 to 90 days. Tropical Africa is the lightning capital of the world as more than 280 thunderstorm days occur at this location.

• Number of thunderstorms occurring at any given moment: 2,000

• Number of lightning strikes every second: 100

• Number of lightning strikes a day: 8 million

• Number of thunderstorms occurring in the United States a year: 100,000

• Number of lightning strikes in the USA per year: 20 million

• How many volts and amps in a typical lightning flash? A typical lightning bolt contains 1 billion volts and contains between 10,000 to 200,000 amperes of current.

[Rob-TheStormChaser]

In other words....lightning is BIG in every way!