Media Resources

• NWS Lightning Safety Campaign: doc, pdf
• Lightning Safety and Cell Phones: doc, pdf
• Press Release: Keeping the Game Safe: NOAA Teams with Little League Baseball on Lightning Safety Awareness: doc
• NOAA Backgrounder on Lightning
• NOAA Web Story: Lightning Kills, Play it Safe: NOAA and PGA TOUR

Public Service Announcements with Pro Golfer Rocco Mediate
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• 30 Second PSA, 10 Second PSA, Text Scripts of PSAs
• Click here to view B-Roll from Video Transfer in Rockville, Md.,
  301-881-0270
  • Sound bites from lightning victim
  • Doctor who treats lightning victims
  • Lightning PSA and NOAA spokesman.
  • B-roll weather video footage on lightning and other weather hazards

Audio PSAs in conjunction with Iowa High School Athetic Association (mp3)

• Lightning Kills from the First Flash
• Dangerous from First Strike
• Lightning Injuries, What To Do
• Helping Lightning Victims
• Lightning Happens Instantly
• Lightning Kills
• Get to Shelter Fast
• Sports and Lightning

Multimedia Files on Lightning Safety Awareness Week Topics

• Streaming introduction to Lightning and Its Dangers
• Streaming introduction to the Science of Lightning
• Streaming introduction toOutdoor Safety
• Streaming introduction toIndoor Safety
• Streaming introduction to the Medical Aspects of Lightning Strike Victims

• Short Blurbs: Four short bites
• Full Page Article-1
• Full Page Article-2
• Half Page Article

Expert contacts for media stories

• Mary Ann Cooper - Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Bioengineering University of Illinois at Chicago
• Ron Holle - Meteorologist, Global Atmospherics, Inc.
• John Jensenius - Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NWS Gray, ME
• Richard Kithil - Founder and CEO, National Lightning Safety Institute
• William P. Roeder - Chief Staff Meteorologist, USAF 45th Weather Squadron
• Map linking to NWS local Warning Coordination Meteorologists

Victim/Survivor Contacts

Read how lightning has affected strike victims. To contact survivors please call the National Weather Service’s Office of Public Affairs at 301-713-0622 for further information

Poster Information

Leon the Safety Lion, Outdoor Safety, Minnesota Twins Center Fielder Torii Hunter, Washington Freedom Goalie Siri Mullinix and pro golfers Rocco Mediate and Vijay Singh

Statistics

• Lightning deaths by state and deaths population weighted: 1997-2006
• Lightning Deaths by State and Deaths Population Weighted: 1959-1996
• Weather Fatalities, Injuries and Damages: 1996 to Present
• Number of Cloud-to-Ground Flashes By State from 1996 TO 2005
• Rank of Cloud-To-Ground Flash Densities by State from 1996 to 2005

Contact a local National Weather Service office: Clickable Map