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Media Resources
Media Releases and Stories: Lightning Awareness Week
- Lightning Safety and Cell Phones: doc, pdf
- Press Release: Keeping the Game Safe:
NOAA Teams with Little League Baseball on Lightning Safety Awareness: doc
- NOAA Backgrounder
on Lightning
- NOAA
Web Story: Lightning
Kills, Play it Safe:
NOAA and PGA TOUR
Public Service Announcements with Pro Golfer Rocco Mediate
To view the videos
below, you need a free, Quicktime
Viewer.
- 30
Second PSA, 10
Second PSA, Text Scripts
of PSAs
- Click
here to view B-Roll from Video Transfer in Rockville,
Md.,
301-881-0270
- Sound bites from
lightning victim
- Doctor who treats lightning victims
- Lightning PSA and
NOAA spokesman.
- B-roll weather video footage on lightning
and other weather hazards
 Audio PSAs in conjunction with Iowa High School Athetic Association (mp3)
| Storm Fatalities |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
30-Year Average of fatalities:
1977-2006 |
Flood Fatalities
Lightning Fatalities
Tornado Fatalities
Hurricane Fatalities |
49
51
55
53 |
85
44
54
14 |
82
31
34
34 |
43
38
38
1016* |
76
47
67
0
|
99
62
54
117 |
| * Reflects fatalities associated with Hurricane
Katrina |
Multimedia Files on Lightning Safety Awareness Week Topics
Copy for News Releases/Articles
Expert contacts for media stories
Victim/Survivor Contacts
Read how lightning has affected
strike victims. To contact survivors please
call the National Weather Service’s
Office of Public Affairs
at 301-713-0622 for further
information
More resources:
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Overview, Science,
Outdoors, Indoors,
Medical, Teachers, Survivor Stories,
Success Stories, Photos,
Lightning Awareness Week, More Info
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