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#181 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Apr 11, 2004 1:42 am

12:00 am EDT to 2:00 am EDT: 19,403

24.77% decrease between 10:30 pm EDT to 2:00 am EDT.


A long line of thunderstorms were occurring from north-central
Alabama... westward and southwestward through central Mississippi,
northern Louisiana and off the Texas coast/over the extreme
western Gulf of Mexico.

Another area, attached to the above mentioned was across extreme
southern Texas.

A much smaller cluster was just south of the Arizona/New Mexico line.

(A few other small areas include eastern Virginia, eastern North Carolina and
individual strikes off the Carolina coast.)
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#182 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:50 am

7:00 am EDT to 9:00 am EDT: 33,826
7:30 am EDT to 9:30 am EDT: 32,378

42.64% increase in the last seven hours.
  4.28% decrease in the last half hour.


A very large cluster of cloud to ground lightning strikes were occurring
across the west-central Gulf Of Mexico and along the Alabama and
Mississippi coasts, as well as southeastern Louisiana.

There were also thunderstorms across southern Texas, as well as
several strikes were occuring off the North Carolina coast.
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#183 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Apr 12, 2004 2:43 am

1:00 am EDT to 3:00 am EDT: 7,224
2:00 am EDT to 4:00 am EDT: 7,312

Hour increase of 1.2%.


A very large cluster of thunderstorms was over the eastern Gulf of
Mexico; as well as along the coast of the Florida panhandle.

Another area of activity was across west-central North Carolina and
another larger patch across coastal South Carolina, south-
southeastward into the Atlantic, just along and off the Georgia coast.
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#184 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:00 pm

10:00 am EDT to 12:00 pm EDT: 12,441
10:30 am EDT to 12:30 pm EDT:   8,903

28.44% decrease.


There was a large cluster of thunderstorms, again, over the
eastern Gulf of Mexico.

A long line of activity was east of the entire Florida coast, from
Miami north-northeastward to off the Georgia and South Carolina
coast.
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#185 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:33 pm

11:00 am EDT to 1:00 pm EDT: 6,328

28.92% decrease.
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#186 Postby ColdFront77 » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:29 pm

2:30 pm EDT to 4:30 pm EDT: 3,495
3:00 pm EDT to 5:00 pm EDT: 3,888

10.11% increase.


All storms (aside from a few strikes across in northwestern
Georgia, southeast Kentucky and the literal extreme southwest
corner of Pennsylvania were across the eastern Gulf of Mexico
heading toward Florida.
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#187 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:24 am

11:30 pm EDT to 1:30 am EDT: 11,493

Numerous thunderstorms were occurring over eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, northern Georgia and northern Alabama.

A larger cluster of storms were across south Florida, west and southwestward into the Gulf of Mexico.
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#188 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:33 pm

6:00 pm EDT to 8:00 pm EDT: 40,546
Last edited by ColdFront77 on Sat May 01, 2004 6:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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#189 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat May 01, 2004 6:39 pm

6:00 pm EDT to 8:00 pm EDT: 25,840

The most dramatic area of thunderstorm activity occurred across the western Gulf of Mexico. Storms across central Florida were at least strong in intensity with very heavy rain and small hail.
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