Lightning — Marshall, Alabama

2025-05-19 · near Albertville, Marshall, Alabama

$100K

Property damage

Event narrative

Lightning struck a home on Honeysuckle Lane in the Albertville area. Severe damage to the roof and interior of the home resulted from the lightning strike. The home was damaged enough for the residents of that home to be temporarily displaced.

Wider weather episode

A slow moving and back building complex of strong to severe thunderstorms move east from northern Mississippi across northern Alabama shortly after midnight before weakening and exiting into NW Georgia just before daybreak on the 19th. These storms produced damaging winds (particularly in north central Alabama) west of the I-65 corridor. Damage from a lightning strike in the Albertville area to a home caused a family to temporarily vacate their home.

The slow moving and back building nature of the thunderstorm complex produced some flash flooding as well.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1277352. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.