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<p class="HTMLBody" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">Amanda Sava</span></b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">Master’s Meteorology Candidate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Title</span></u>:</b> Unexplained nocturnally forming lightning in the ccafs/ksc area<span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Major Professor</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">: Dr. Henry Fuelberg</span></b><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Date</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> March 24, 2020
<b><u>Time</u>: 3:30 PM</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">EOA Building room 1044<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>ABSTRACT<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center (CCAFS/KSC) experience thunderstorms on an almost daily basis during the warm season (May through September). Most thunderstorms occur during the afternoon
and are accurately forecast. However, on rare occasions, thunderstorms form at night with no apparent cause. These unexpected events can catch forecasters off-guard, leading to missed lightning watches and unexpected dangerous situations. The goal of the present
research is to address the lack of knowledge about these unexplained nocturnally forming lightning events near CCAFS/KSC and provide forecasters with additional information about the events. The study area is a rectangle centered on the Space Shuttle Roll-Out
at KSC and is oriented parallel to Florida’s coast. Lightning flash data from the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (ENTLN) and the National Lightning Detection Network, and radar data from the National Weather Service Melbourne (NWS MLB) were used to
identify case nights and null nights, and generate a climatology of case nights. Then, 24 different variables that consider atmospheric moisture, hydrostatic stability, and wind shear were investigated to identify a possible discriminating parameter between
case nights and null nights. Results showed that July had the greatest occurrence of case nights, and that the greatest frequency of first flash times was at 0500 UTC, about 5 h after local sunset. The results also revealed that case nights had a slightly
greater potential for convection, but unfortunately there was no variable that had a statistically significant difference at the 95% confidence interval between case nights and null nights.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shel McGuire<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Academic Program Specialist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Earth, Ocean, & Atmospheric Science<o:p></o:p></p>
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