This page is the beginning of a collection of useful links!  Some are offered by presenters at past seminars...

• NWS Basic Spotter Training Schedule

• Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 22-28, 2008

• Thinking of chasing storms?  Make sure you read this paper:  Storm Chasing with Safety, Courtesy, and Responsibility by Charles A. Doswell III, National Severe Storms Laboratory (retired).

• From Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, Principal Investigator, Lightning Injury Research Program, University of Illinois at Chicago Emergency Medicine:
  • Lightning Strike & Electric Shock Survivors, Int'l:  Lightning Strike & Electric Shock Survivors International, Inc. (LS&ESSI, Inc.) is a non-profit support group by and for survivors, their families, and other interested parties.
  • See http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov; we now have a new posters to try to reach the kids:

• The highest elevation tornado ever observed in U.S. was at Rockwell Pass, Sequoia National Park, July 7, 2004