Lightning Verification Expert Witnesses
Lightning verification expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on lightning verification. The lightning verification expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Hydrology and Meteorology.
Matthew J. Bunkers, Ph.D., CCM
Certified Consulting Meteorologist/Weather Expert
Northern Plains Weather Services, LLC
Rapid City, South Dakota
Meteorology, Hydrology
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forensic meteorology, heavy rain and flooding, high winds, fog, severe storms, hail, tornadoes, winter weather, heavy snow, slip and falls, icing, fire weather, weather-related accidents, agriculture weather, lightning verification, radar, satellite, and applied climate and meteorology
I believe that my clients deserve to have accurate and reliable weather information. My clients include lawyers and industries of construction, insurance, mining, and power generation.
I have worked on cases involving:
• analyses of tornado/hail/wind (including derecho) damage to businesses, crops, people, farm property (e.g., barns, grain bins, and irrigation systems), and housing units for insurance-related claims/lawsuits,
• slip and falls related to snowfall, icing, refreezing, and freezing drizzle,
• climate-, severe-, and winter-weather analyses for a mining operation, preventative planting insurance claim, crop spraying, livestock operations, and construction delays due to adverse weather days,
• rainfall recurrence interval analyses for flooding of homes and flash-flood related damages to businesses and trains/railroad tracks,
• snowfall and rainfall analyses for insurance protection claims for recreational events,
• cloud cover, moonlight, rainfall, fog, icing, snow, and w...
