Severe Weather Safety
Severe Weather Awareness
Remember: WATCH for a WARNING
Severe Thunderstorm definitions, safety and preparedness - Lots of links to check out the basics and all you need to know!
Tornado Warning Safety
Lightning
Lightning Safety
This site is PACKED with lightning safety education, stats and most importantly, how to stay safe from it.
Lightning 101 - fantastic site with everything you want to know about lightning!
VIDEO from WeatherBug, 2 minutes long.
Lightning strikes the US 25 million times per year!
Lightning in the News
“We were just sitting in the river waiting for the storm to blow over” 4th of July lightning strike kills one man, injures 12.
Planes get struck by lightning and most times, nothing happens. That was not the case for a Delta flight in February.
Someone being directly struck by lightning is rare.
A motorcyclist was struck in the helmet on I-95 in Florida in June.