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#101 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:19 pm

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#102 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:54 pm

5:30 PM EST to 7:30 PM EST: 1

This occurred over eastern Oklahoma. The 8:00 pm Eastern radar image showed a line of developing rain and thunderstorms across eastern Oklahoma moving into western Arkansas.
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#103 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:56 pm

6:00 pm EST to 8:00 pm EST: ..26
6:30 pm EST to 8:30 pm EST: 123

78.8% increase.

Line has grown in eastern and northeastern Oklahoma.
Strikes developed in western Missouri between 8:00 pm and 8:30 pm EST.
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#104 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:29 am

11:30 pm EST to 1:30 am EST: 59
12:00 am EST to 2:00 am EST: 29


All activity during this period (11:30 pm Eastern to 2:00 am Eastern) was occurring in Arkansas.

There were no cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in the last 20 minute period (2:10 am Eastern to 2:30 am Eastern).
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#105 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:21 pm

5:00 pm EST to 7:00 pm EST: 832


Thunderstorms were occurring over the eastern Gulf of Mexico and across southwestern Florida.
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#106 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:48 pm

2:00 pm EST to 4:00 pm EST: 448

Thunderstorm activity was occuring across eastern Texas.
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#107 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:34 pm

1:30 pm EST to 3:30 pm EST: 554
2:00 pm EST to 4:00 pm EST: 714

22.4% increase.

Thunderstorms were occurring across southern Texas and
more scattered activity over northern Mexico; southeast
of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
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#108 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:02 pm

2:30 pm EST to 4:30 pm EST: 898

20.5% increase since 4:00 pm EST.
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#109 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Jan 17, 2004 2:38 pm

12:00 pm EST to 2:00 pm EST: 2,765

Activity was occurring across the western Gulf of Mexico, central and eastern portions of Louisiana and extreme southern Mississippi. Another area was across northern Mexico, south of southeastern Arizona.
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#110 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:32 pm

3:00 pm EST to 5:00 pm EST: 4,288
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#111 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:33 pm

5:00 pm EST to 7:00 pm EST: 2,823

The most concentrated lightning activity was moving into the central Gulf of Mexico (from the western Gulf).
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#112 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Jan 18, 2004 2:49 am

12:00 am EST to 2:00 am EST: 2,367


Thunderstorms moving through the eastern Gulf of Mexico toward the Florida peninsula; in fact the easternmost portion is just off the "Big Bend" area of the state [Florida].

Another area of cloud to ground lightning strikes was located across extreme eastern Texas and extreme northwestern Louisiana, (as well as a bit of activity along the Arkansas/Louisiana border.
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#113 Postby David » Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:01 am

ColdFront77 wrote:5:30 PM EST to 7:30 PM EST: 1

This occurred over eastern Oklahoma. The 8:00 pm Eastern radar image showed a line of developing rain and thunderstorms across eastern Oklahoma moving into western Arkansas.


Lol... you never usually see just 1.
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#114 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:16 am

ColdFront77 wrote:5:30 PM EST to 7:30 PM EST: 1
This occurred over eastern Oklahoma. The 8:00 pm Eastern radar image showed a line of developing rain and thunderstorms across eastern Oklahoma moving into western Arkansas.

David wrote:Lol... you never usually see just 1.

Many times there are obvioulsy "0"... depending on how I feel I indicate when there is only one or (obviously) "only several" to prove a point before and/or after a "thunderstorm outbreak" across the U.S.
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#115 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:19 pm

5:30 pm EST to 7:30 pm EST: 318

A small line of thunderstorms was occurring over an area of eastern Texas
and another smaller area across southwest-central Texas.
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#116 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:33 pm

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm EST: 7

Lightning strikes were on the earlier side of this two hour period... mainly over Georgia... a couple others were located in New Mexico and Arizona.
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#117 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:49 pm

11:00 am EST to 1:00 pm EST: 3,578

Thunderstorm activity has been concentrated from the Columbia, South Carolina area southwestward to the Gulf of Mexico... south of the Florida panhandle.

Another, smaller area of lightning strikes were located off the Texas coast.
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#118 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:06 pm

11:30 am EST to 1:30 pm: 3,546
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#119 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:14 pm

12:30 pm to 2:30 pm EST: 2,638
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#120 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:07 pm

2:30 pm EST to 4:30 pm EST: 1,534

It appears that thunderstorms are developing, as lightning strikes begin to develop/redevelop in the eastern Gulf of Mexico like expected; this is indicative in northern and central Florida weather discussions and forecasts.
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