Lightning — King, Washington

2013-07-31 · near Issaquah, King, Washington

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

Thunderstorms damaged two homes and an underground pipeline near Sammamish.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 457298. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.