Actually you are right with respect to fatalities. The odds are similar. However, from the same NOAA site I believe it mentions that only 10% of persons struck by lightning die while others have varying degrees of injury. I am not sure how they tabulate the odds for your chances of being involved in a tornado versus lightning although they do have some interesting statistics on their site: lightningsafety.noaa.gov
and the Storm Prediction Center has some neat maps with tornado probabilities over time. I think they said the frequency of a tornado hitting the same square mile of land was about every thousand years but they also admit that meteorology has grown so much as a field new things are being learned all the time.
I would prefer not to be the victim of either!
and the Storm Prediction Center has some neat maps with tornado probabilities over time. I think they said the frequency of a tornado hitting the same square mile of land was about every thousand years but they also admit that meteorology has grown so much as a field new things are being learned all the time.
I would prefer not to be the victim of either!