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ColdFront77

#141 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:11 am

12:30 am EST to 2:30 am EST: 1,400

A cluster of thunderstorms was off the Carolina coast.
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#142 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Feb 14, 2004 4:07 am

1:00 am EST to 3:00 am EST: 533
1:30 am EST to 3:30 am EST: 502

5.81% decrease.


Two small clusters of thunderstorms: One south of the Florida panhandle, southwest of Tallahassee and the second south of Louisiana.

Rather dense coverage, especially for this hour of the day.
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#143 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:02 pm

3:30 pm EST to 5:30 pm EST: 243

Lightning strikes developed west of southwest Florida.
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#144 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:17 am

1:30 am EST to 3:30 am EST: 4,214

Thunderstorms were occurring over Louisiana, eastern Texas, as well as western Texas and an older cluster (prevalent in the first half hour of this two hour period) across southwestern Oklahoma.
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#145 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:31 pm

1:30 pm EST to 3:30 pm EST: 2,733
2:00 pm EST to 4:00 pm EST: 3,144

13.07% increase.


Lightning activity was occurring over the panhandle of Florida, west of Tallahassee, over
southern and western Louisiana as well as across northeastern Texas.

Isolated thunderstorms were occurring across northern Mexico, south of Arizona; as well
as a few strikes in southwestern Arizona.
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#146 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:46 am

10:00 pm EST to 12:00 am EST: 3,319


Thunderstorms were over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, a portion of northern Florida and the northern portion of west-central Florida.

Activity was also present at the Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana borders... into most of extreme eastern Louisiana, encompassing the New Orleans vinicity.

Yet another area across southwestern Texas and extreme northern Mexico.
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#147 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:47 am

2:00 am EST to 4:00 am EST: 5,301

37.39% increase from midnight to 4:00 am Eastern!


Thunderstorms were across southern Texas, across the panhandle of Florida (including Mobile, Alabama and vinicity/east of New Orleans), along a portion of the west-central Florida coast and off the northeast Florida coast.
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#148 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:32 am

8:30 am EST to 10:30 am EST: 6,110
9:00 am EST to 11:00 am EST: 7,095

13.88% increase.


A large cluster of lightning strikes were across central
Florida westward into the eastern and central Gulf of
Mexico... to a smaller cluster in the western Gulf.

Another smaller area was across southern Texas, as well as
off the South Carolina coast.
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#149 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:41 pm

10:00 am EST to 12:00 pm EST: 8,731

18.74% increase from 11:00 am EST to 12:00 pm EST.
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#150 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:05 pm

11:30 am EST to 1:30 pm EST: 10,656

1 hour, 30 minutes: 18.07% increase.
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#151 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:14 pm

6:30 pm EST to 8:30 pm EST: 4,827

Storms occurring across the eastern and east-central Gulf of Mexico, as well as across southwestern Louisiana, southwestward into the western Gulf.
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Josephine96

#152 Postby Josephine96 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:18 pm

Hey Tom.. Believe it or not.. I don't think I have seen 1 lightning strike yet today.. I know there's been occasional thunder, but no lightning I don't believe
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#153 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:27 pm

To have thunder, there has to be lightning... thus you didn't see any, but there certainly has been many strikes across central Florida today.

I saw a couple flashes, but wasn't looking at the skies that often.
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#154 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:30 pm

ColdFront77 wrote:6:30 pm EST to 8:30 pm EST: 4,827

Storms occurring across the eastern and east-central Gulf of Mexico, as well as across southwestern Louisiana, southwestward into the western Gulf.

9:00 pm EST to 11:00 pm EST: 4,657
9:30 pm EST to 11:30 pm EST: 3,982

14.49% decrease.
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#155 Postby ColdFront77 » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:31 am

12:30 am EST to 2:30 am EST: 1,369
  1:00 am EST to 3:00 am EST: 1,354

1.1% decrease.


Cluster of storms were along the Tampa, Florida coast to a couple hundred miles west in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Another smaller cluster was occurring over the New Orleans area and across southeastern Mississippi/southwestern Alabama.

Isolated strikes were across western Louisiana, as well.
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#156 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:02 am

1:00 am EST to 3:00 am EST: 1,669
1:30 am EST to 3:30 am EST: 1,461

12.46% decrease.


Most of the activity was occuring across western and southwestern Georgia.

Four other areas included: Right along the Georgia coast, just south of the Florida
panhandle, south or Miami/southeast of the Florida Keys and isolated strikes across
California.
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#157 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:37 pm

7:00 pm EST to 9:00 pm EST: [b]874[/b

Most of the lightning strikes were in the state of Michigan.
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#158 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:57 pm

In the last few hours there have been between 300 and 400 lightning strikes
across northeastern Texas and along the California/northern Mexico border.
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#159 Postby ColdFront77 » Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:19 pm

12:30 pm EST to 2:30 pm EST: 7,257

A fairly large cluster of thunderstorms was occurring from extreme northern Texas into central and eastern Oklahoma... making this area of lightning very dense.
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#160 Postby ColdFront77 » Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:05 pm

4:30 pm EST to 6:30 pm EST: 2,818

Storms have moved into Missouri and strikes (on a smaller scale existed across central Oklahoma,
a newly developed area across south-central Texas and another area over extreme southern Illinois.
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