Lightning — Stephens, Texas

2025-04-03 · near Breckenridge, Stephens, Texas

$400K

Property damage

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1255958. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.