1. ATM OCN 100 - Summer 2002 LECTURES 33
THUNDERSTORMS: PART II. LIGHTNING & THUNDER
A. INTRODUCTION
Practical Questions
What is a thunderstorm?
Why do thunderstorms occur?
Definitions (where...)

2. Thunderstorm Hazards- Lightning
Lightning is a killer (with more than 80 deaths in US per year)!

4. Thunderstorm Hazards- Lightning
Lightning is a killer (with more than 80 deaths in US per year)!

5. Historical Thunderstorm Charge Model
From NSSL Power Point presentation

6.
Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower, June 3, 1902, at 9:20 P.M. This is one of the earliest
photographs of lightning in an urban setting In:"Thunder and Lightning", Camille
Flammarion, translated by Walter Mostyn Published in 1906

7.
Benjamin Franklin's experiment with the kite "..when the string was thoroughly wet,
abundance of electricity was procured..." In: "The Thunder-storm" by Charles
Thomlinson, F.R.S., 1877, p. 30.