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ColdFront77

#81 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:50 am

Total Strikes: 6,113
Time:
03/20/03 12:00 AM EST
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03/20/03 2:00 AM EST
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chadtm80

#82 Postby chadtm80 » Fri Mar 21, 2003 12:59 pm

Thanks for Keeping the updates coldfront
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ColdFront77

#83 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:41 pm

Total Strikes: 5,006
Time:
03/20/03 2:00 PM EST
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03/20/03 4:00 PM EST


No problem and thank you Chad. :)
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ColdFront77

#84 Postby ColdFront77 » Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:41 am

Total Strikes: 11,237
Time:
03/26/03 2:00 AM EST
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03/26/03 4:00 AM EST


There were just over 18,024 lightning strikes nationwide, between 7:00 PM ET and 9:00 PM ET last evening (Tuesday, March 25th).

They were across Texas, Arkansas, western Tennessee and extreme western Kentucky. Older strikes are across extreme southern Indiana (along the Ohio River) into Ohio to just south of Buffalo, New York.
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ColdFront77

#85 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:32 am

12:00 PM ET to 2:00 PM ET: 9,093

Most of the activity was over Florida during this period (nearly 24 hours ago from this morning). :D
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ColdFront77

#86 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:05 am

There were under 800 lightnings strikes across the United States and Ontario, Canada during one of the two hour periods on Friday, when there was severe weather occurring in Indiana and Michigan (Severe Thunderstorm Watches and a few warnings were issued) as many of you I am sure were aware.
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ColdFront77

#87 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Apr 04, 2003 1:42 am

Total Strikes: 1,244
Time:
04/04/03 11:00 PM EST
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04/04/03 1:00 AM EST
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Rainband

#88 Postby Rainband » Fri Apr 04, 2003 12:33 pm

Wow!!!!

Johnathan :wink:
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ColdFront77

#89 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Apr 05, 2003 3:58 am

1:00 AM EST to 3:00 AM EST: 12,190
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ColdFront77

#90 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Apr 05, 2003 8:02 pm

Total Strikes: 5,134
Time:
04/05/03 5:30 PM EST
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04/05/03 7:30 PM EST
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ColdFront77

#91 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:59 pm

Total Strikes: 34,669
Time:
04/06/03 1:00 PM EDT
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04/06/03 3:00 PM EDT
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ColdFront77

#92 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:01 pm

Total Strikes: 35,175
Time:
04/06/03 1:30 PM EDT
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04/06/03 3:30 PM EDT
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ColdFront77

#93 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Apr 07, 2003 2:13 am

Total Strikes: 3,856
Time:
04/07/03 12:30 AM EDT
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04/07/03 2:30 AM EDT
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#94 Postby polarbear » Mon Apr 07, 2003 5:56 pm

The current lightning detection network is owned by Vaisala Inc. Since this is a private sector company, we're lucky to get any free lightning data at all. Although they collect the data every 5 minutes (I believe), it's only available at 30 minute intervals over the internet (for free). Vaisala also puts restrictions on outside companies that use their lightning data and displays it on the internet (limited to 30 minute updates). The Weather Channel used to display strike data on their regional satellite maps, but has since stopped (I've heard they didn't include internet delivery in a contract renewal at the end of January).
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ColdFront77

#95 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Apr 07, 2003 7:25 pm

Total Strikes: 20,031
Time:
04/07/03 5:30 PM EDT
to
04/07/03 7:30 PM EDT


Polarbear, thank you for that. You're right, we are lucky to get lightning strike count information. There are some regional ones I check, one I know of is lightning strike data for (here) in central Florida.
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ColdFront77

#96 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Apr 07, 2003 7:35 pm

Total Strikes: 16,404
Time:
04/07/03 6:00 PM EDT
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04/08/03 8:00 PM EDT
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ColdFront77

#97 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Apr 08, 2003 12:59 am

Total Strikes: 5,895
Time:
04/08/03 11:00 PM EDT
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04/08/03 1:00 AM EDT
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ColdFront77

#98 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:13 am

Total Strikes: 6,424
Time:
04/08/03 11:30 PM EDT
to
04/08/03 1:30 PM EDT

An increase of 8.2% in the last half hour (overnight, mind you) :)
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ColdFront77

#99 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:24 am

Total Strikes: 13,257
Time:
04/08/03 9:30 AM EDT
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04/08/03 11:30 AM EDT
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ColdFront77

#100 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:34 am

Total Strikes: 14,213
Time:
04/08/03 10:00 AM EDT
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04/08/03 12:00 PM EDT
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