Severe Storms and Flooding Threat in the Central Plains; Heat Continues in the South and West

Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging winds, large hail, and numerous instances of flash/urban flooding over parts of the central Plains and lower Missouri Valley. Hazardous heat will continue in the South, Desert Southwest and the California Central Valley this weekend. Isolated dry thunderstorms may increase the risk of fire starts and spread across the Four Corners region and vicinity. Read More >

Lightning Safety

Lightning Safety Preparedness Week
Jun 21-27, 2015

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Utah Lightning Safety Awareness Week (PDF download for the entire week)

National Information

When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors!
Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 24-30, 2012
Quick Summary of the 2006 Colorado Lightning Casualties
Overall Summary of Colorado casualties since 1980
Download and Play the "Safe or Not Safe" Game - Requires Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer (available here)

Additional Lightning information courtesy of WFO Pueblo, Colorado

What is Lightning?

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
Outdoor risk reduction 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 Case Studies in the state of Colorado: In this section, you will find meteorological case studies of lightning strike victims which occurred in the state of Colorado.

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

NCAA Lightning Safety Guidlines:

Coaches, Atheletic Directors, Referees, and parents whose children participate in outdoor 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 day, per month and per year for Colorado
Average number of lightning flashes per year for each county in Colorado
Average number of lightning flashes over the United States

Lightning Facts and Other Interesting Aspects of Lightning

Lightning Internet Links

Safety, Education, Science, etc

Additional Lightning Studies

Other topics:

Where Lightning Strikes - Total Lightning map of the world.

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Plane being struck by lightning

Lightning Striking a building at close range:
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This internet site is intended to serve as a resource for lightning information for the state of Colorado. Knowing more about lightning, its causes, and some basic safety rules can help you and your family avoid needless exposure to the dangers of lightning.

We hope that you find this information useful.

Please email your comments, questions, and suggestions to Steve.Hodanish@noaa.gov

This page is a part of the Lightning Program at National Weather Service Pueblo

"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off I sat and wondered..."

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