Lightning in Stephens County, Texas

Lightning April 3, 2025 · Stephens County, Texas

$400K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Fire and rescue reported that a storage building and guest house were struck by lightning and destroyed in a fire shortly after 6am. Two adjacent homes received heat damage.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of showers and storms occurred as a cold front moved through North Texas and stalled in East/Central Texas. These storms produced large hail, damaging winds, a tornado, lightning related damage, and flash flooding. The largest hail stone fell in Eastland County on the 3rd, with a diameter of 2.5 inches. A EF-0 tornado was found to have occurred in Van Zandt County on the 4th.

Began near Breckenridge (32.7500, -99.0033).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Van Zandt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1255958. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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