Keep a watch on the sky for threatening weather and stay tuned to radio and television for weather bulletins. Keep a battery powered radio and extra batteries close at hand. Some are equipped with a specially designated warning receiver, which sounds an alarm when watches and warnings are issued. And remember a tornado warning means that a tornado has been spotted or detected by radar and you should take shelter immediately. In the state of Kentucky in 1994, there were three lightning injuries.
Lightning kills more people than tornados and hurricanes combined.
Records for the decades since the 1960s show that the danger from lightning increases sharply in May, hits its peak in June and July, and lasts until September. It is estimated at any give moment that nearly 2,000 thunderstorms are in progress over the earth's surface and lightning strikes the earth 100 times each second. The electrical potential of a lightning strike can be as much as 100 million volts and the temperature can reach 30,000 degrees Celsius. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to the storm to be struck by lightning. Get inside a home or large building or inside an all-metal vehicle that is not a convertible.