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To date, there has been 3 lightning fatalities in 2012
2 in Louisiana and 1 in Alabama

No.

Date

Day

ST

City

Age

Sex

Location

Activity

Victim
1 3/30 Fri AL Greenville 12 M Under Tree Playing Aren Brett Schofield
2 4/11 Wed LA Ponchatoula 54 M Small metal structure under tree Had been fishing Luther Clyde Baham, Sr.
3 4/11 Wed LA Ponchatoula 33 M Small metal structure under tree Had been fishing Luther Clyde Baham, Jr.

Lightning Fatalities for 2012 by State

2009 Lightning Deaths. See box below for text version.

2012 Lightning Fatality Demographics
State
Gender
Age
Day Of Week
By Month
AL 1 M 3 (100%) 0- 9 0 (0%) Sun 0 (0%)   12 11 10
09
08
07
06 
Norm*
LA 2 F 0 (0%) 10-19 1 (33) Mon 0 (0%) Jan 0 0 0
0
1
0
1
0
      20-29 0 (0%) Tue 0 (0%) Feb 0 0 0
0
1
0
0
0
      30-39 1 (33%) Wed 2 (67%)

Mar

 1 0 0
1
0
1
0
1
      40-49 0 (0%) Thu 0 (0%) Apr 2* 0 0
1
0
1
3
2
      50-59 1 (33%) Fri 1 (33%) May   1 4
2
2
5
5
6
      60-69 0 (0%) Sat 0 (0%) Jun   5 7
12
9
12
10
12
      70-79 0 (0%)     Jul   9 11
10
14
10
16
16
      80-89 0 (0%)     Aug   6 4
3
0
9
7
12
      Unknown 0 (0%)     Sep   4 2
4
1
5
4
5
              Oct   1 1
1
0
2
2
1
              Nov   0 0 0
0
0
0
0
              Dec   0 0 0
0
0
0
0
              Year 1* 26 29
34
28
45
48
54
Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
 * - Known Fatalities to date

Fatality statistics for past years

Note: Monthly normals are based on the 30-year average of 54 deaths per year (1982-2011) multiplied by the average monthly percentage of annual deaths from 1959-1994 as documented in NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS SR-193 with Dec 1961 plane crash fatalities removed from the data.


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