Lightning in King County, Washington

Lightning July 31, 2013 · King County, Washington

Injury

$10K

Damage as recorded

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

South of Issaquah, a tree fell and struck a woman standing on her porch. The woman suffered a broken hip. A lightning strike sparked a gas leak in a Sammamish neighborhood, it hit a house, then went through the gutter system and ruptured a buried gas line 100 feet away and causing flammable gas to spew into the air.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms damaged two homes and an underground pipeline near Sammamish.

Began near Issaquah (47.5155, -122.0300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 457298. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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