Lightning in Jasper County, Texas

Lightning May 9, 2026 · Jasper County, Texas

Injury

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

A nineteen-year-old male survived a lightning strike while fishing with his mother at the Bevilport boat ramp on the Angelina River. Lightning hit a nearby pine tree he stood under, throwing him several feet away, destroying his fishing rod, and leaving him briefly unconscious before he was treated at Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital. He returned to fish at the same spot the next day.

The wider storm

Lightning hit a fisherman that was standing under a pine tree.

Began near Curtis (30.9200, -94.1500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1341727. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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