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United States Lightning Strike Count

#1 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:40 pm

http://www.lightningstorm.com/ls2/gpg/l ... 0225157034
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#2 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Jun 12, 2003 7:46 pm

6:00 PM EDT to 8:00 PM EDT: 50,082
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#3 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Jun 13, 2003 7:06 pm

5:30 PM EDT to 7:30 PM EDT: 83,097
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#4 Postby weatherwunder » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:50 pm

Quite a difference from Thursday to Friday. Must be some serious storms out there!
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#5 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:58 pm

8:00 PM EDT to 10:00 PM EDT: 94,449
8:30 PM EDT to 10:30 PM EDT: 85,216

A decrease of 9.8%.


Weatherwunder, there sure a lot of thunderstorms out there this afternoon and evening... most of them over Texas. Some activity to my south/southwest, too.
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#6 Postby weatherwunder » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:16 pm

Yes, I just looked at the radar shots, and it is pretty intense.
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#7 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:08 pm

11:30 AM EDT to 1:30 PM EDT: 21,488

The majority of the thunderstorms were occuring ahead of a surface cold front across most of Louisiana and off the southeast Texas coast.
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#8 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Jun 15, 2003 5:05 pm

3:00 PM EDT to 5:00 PM EDT: 31,182
3:30 PM EDT to 5:30 PM EDT: 33,904

An 8% increase.
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Re: United States Lightning Strike Count

#9 Postby Scott_inVA » Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:36 pm

Just a quick comment on lightning strike counts.

I currently am a beta tester for Boltek's new Lightning Detection Network. We have installed a Boltek receiver (if you're interested in more on this: http://www.wrel.com/lightning_ldn.htm).

A significant number of recorded strikes actually are "noise"...impulses produced from non-lightning sources. I've been told 20% of impulses recorded as "strike" actually are non-filtered noise. But is isn't uncommon to get a true strike count in the thousands on an active day! I've recently watched some cells in the Mid-Atlantic produce over 100+ CGs withing 30 minutes. Impressive.

Scott
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#10 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:34 pm

10:00 PM EDT to 12:00 AM EDT: 20,788
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#11 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:36 pm

2:00 PM EDT to 4:00 PM EDT: 51,915
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#12 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Jun 16, 2003 6:59 pm

5:00 PM EDT to 7:00 PM EDT: 63,104
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#13 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:49 am

12:00 AM EDT to 2:00 AM EDT: 11,697
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#14 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:29 am

9:00 AM EDT to 11:00 AM EDT: 7,799
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#15 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:21 pm

2:30 PM EDT to 4:30 PM EDT: 36,256
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#16 Postby ColdFront77 » Wed Jun 18, 2003 3:24 pm

1:30 PM EDT to 3:30 PM EDT: 16,451
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#17 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:59 pm

12:00 PM EDT to 2:00 PM EDT: 6,699
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#18 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:05 pm

12:30 PM EDT to 2:30 PM EDT: 9,416
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#19 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:42 am

12:00 AM EDT to 2:00 AM EDT: 9,728
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#20 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Jun 22, 2003 5:12 pm

3:30 PM EDT to 5:30 PM EDT: 12,356
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