National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Lightning Safety & General Lightning Information:

• The NATIONAL LIGHTNING SAFETY INSTITUTE. This is an excellent overall site. To go to this site, go to the NWS main lightning page, scroll down to the bottom, and then click on the "National Lightning Safety Institute" icon on the bottom (it looks like this: . Click here to go to the NWS main lightning page.   You can also go to an internet search engine, such as Google, and type in "National Lightning Safety Institute", or "NLSI" and this will take you to the site.
• 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

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

• Dr. Chuck Doswells camping safety tips
• See "Lightning in the Colorado Mountains" in the safety section of the Colorado Lightning Resource Center

• Document 1

• 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.

• Lightning probabilities from the NWS Techniques Development Lab (experimental)

• If you are interested in knowing if lightning struck at or near your residence on any day of the year since about 1989, go to the NOAA/NWS main lightning page, and then click on the Vaisala icon on the bottom.