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re: What are the official limits for lightning strikes?
Posted on 8/8/14 at 10:57 am to TheIndulger
Posted on 8/8/14 at 10:57 am to TheIndulger
NCAA rules from an article about a lightning delay at this years regional baseball tournament.
Chad Tolliver, the NCAA's assistant director of championships and alliances, issued a four-page memo dated May 26 advising Division I tournament directors of lightning detection procedures and protocols.
It instructs event staff to monitor MxVision WeatherSentry online and observe a 30-mile "alert ring" and an eight-mile "warning ring" for lightning.
Once lightning enters the warning ring, competition must be stopped and athletes and spectators moved to safe areas. No further activity is permitted until 30 minutes have passed since the last lightning strike inside the warning ring.
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Chad Tolliver, the NCAA's assistant director of championships and alliances, issued a four-page memo dated May 26 advising Division I tournament directors of lightning detection procedures and protocols.
It instructs event staff to monitor MxVision WeatherSentry online and observe a 30-mile "alert ring" and an eight-mile "warning ring" for lightning.
Once lightning enters the warning ring, competition must be stopped and athletes and spectators moved to safe areas. No further activity is permitted until 30 minutes have passed since the last lightning strike inside the warning ring.
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Posted on 8/8/14 at 11:04 am to rebeloke
National Weather Service
As a football official, we are taught to suspend the game for 30 minutes any time complete ground to air lightning is observed.
As a football official, we are taught to suspend the game for 30 minutes any time complete ground to air lightning is observed.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 11:10 am to TheIndulger
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Yeah, you can be reasonably far and still get struck
On a pipeline job I was on, a guy got struck by a stray bolt out of one lone cloud on an otherwise bright sunny day. We were about 50 yards from him stringing pipe off a rolligon trailer while he was spotting for a dozer. It was weird the way it went down, kinda like the Twilight Zone. You could feel the crrent in the air and hair on your arms stand up. The sound was deafening and it killed the guy. It was ugly what it did to his body. One of the worst things I have ever seen.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 11:49 am to MWP
We learned a valuable lesson last week here in Denver. There was a storm cloud 15-20 miles out with audible and visible lightning. For my whole life, I thought the lightning really stayed within the dark clouds. Suddenly, lightning strikes about 25 yards away, and we were nowhere near the storm.
What they say is true, if you hear/see the lightning, assume you can be struck.
What they say is true, if you hear/see the lightning, assume you can be struck.
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