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 
  Safety 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 Meteorological Case Studies: Colorado

25 July 2000 - Pikes Peak Fatality
26 July 2003 - Red Feather Lakes Injury - will be posted Winter 2004 
27 July 2003 - Sangre De Cristo Fatality
24 August 2003 - Park County Motorcycle Fatality 
24 August 2003 - Red Cone Pass Injury - Preliminary data posted

  "BOLTS FROM THE BLUE": The most dangerous type of lightning!

NCAA Lightning Safety Guidlines:

Coaches, Atheletic Directors, Referees, and parents whose children participate in 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 year for Colorado
  Average number of lightning flashes over the United States

Lightning Flashes per county in the state of Colorado  In this section, you will find information on:

Average number of lightning flashes per year for each county in Colorado

Lightning Facts and Other Interesting Aspects of Lightning

Lightning Internet Links

  Safety, Education, Science, Photographs, etc

Lightning Research/Projects at NWS Pueblo

Lightning Photographs by the author

Other topics:

Total Lightning map of the world.

  Colorado Lightning Study, August 1999

  Plane being struck by lightning

   Lightning Striking a building at close range:
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