Lightning — Delaware, Iowa

2022-07-23 · near Manchester, Delaware, Iowa

$5K

Property damage

Event narrative

The Emergency Manager relayed a report that lightning struck a house and put a hole in the roof. The exact time of the event is unknown but used the time that it was reported to the local EMA.

Wider weather episode

A line of severe thunderstorms tracked across portions of eastern Iowa during the evening hours of July 23rd and into northwest Illinois during the early morning of Sunday July 24th. Storms produced mainly damaging winds along their path, with numerous reports of structure, tree, and power line damage from Buchanan County Iowa east into Jo Daviess County Illinois. The Dubuque County Airport measured a 67 MPH wind gust as storms passed.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1046883. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.