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Tracking lightning from space: How satellites keep you safe

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GOES East maps lightning on the Northern Plains, June 11, 2018.

John Jensenius

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John Jensenius, NWS meteorologist and lightning safety expert

GOES East captures spider lightning from space

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The NOAA GOES East satellite (GOES-16) witnessed a frightening display of stratiform, or ‘spider’ lightning as it’s known, in October 2017 over the central plains in the U.S.

GOES-S satellite to map lightning in real time for U.S. West

February 27, 2018

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A lightning storm at dusk over Crater Lake in Oregon

Flashy first images arrive from NOAA’s GOES-16 lightning mapper

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This animation from the new Geostationary Lighting Mapper (GLM) onboard the GOES-16 satellite shows lightning in clouds associated with weather system that produced severe thunderstorms and a few tornadoes in East Texas on February 14, 2017. The mapper monitors an area at 500 frames per second and can distinguish individual lightning strikes within each flash.

'See a Flash, Dash Inside!' New lightning safety slogan rolls out

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Lightning strikes Citibank Ballpark in Midland, Texas.

NOAA scientists tackle mystery of nighttime thunderstorms

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Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year.

NOAA study finds fishing tops U.S. lightning death activities

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Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year.