Lightning Data News Today

The latest National Lightning Safety Council’s lightning-related death report shows two people lost their lives as a result of lightning over the weekend.

The vast majority stretching over 220 plus. severe wind gust reports. some of these the strongest hurricane wind gusts across areas of mississippi, kentucky, the state of tennessee as well. very strong wind gusts in praise with the storms. look at the lightning data. able to tabulate 106,000 lightning strikes and it speaks to the height of this. the weekend and it moves away off the eastern 1/3 of the u.s. notice quite a bit of rainfall observed here. flooding widespread whether its arkansas, wi...

Transportation. bob, your company uses lightning sensor technology. walk us through the video you provided from a storm you captured recently in dallas earlier this year. were showing it right now. go ahead. >> the video youre seeing on the screen is an example of a severe thunderstorm. it may be similar to the one that the flu into. what you see there is an extremely violent storm. bubbling of the clouds and extreme amount of lightning in that storm. when you have that kind of situation with th...

Uncommon in this part of the world? >> thats right. i think one of the keys here is that you know lightning is a critical piece of information and the national transportation safety board in a 2012 safety report called for the use of total lightning data for pilots and controllers to avoid these specific situations. they looked at 12 different incidents and accidents in recent times here where there was situations very dangerous situations fortunately no fatalities and the conclusion was even he...