Lightning in Boone County, Illinois

A line of strong thunderstorms moved southeast from Wisconsin into Northern Illinois during the evening hours of Thursday, August 9th. These thunderstorms mainly blew down trees and power lines at the following locations: Across all of Ogle and McHenry counties; Fox Lake and Wauconda in Lake county; two miles east of Sycamore in DeKalb county; Dundee, Carpentersville, and Aurora in Kane county; Barrington in Cook county; Earlville in LaSalle county; Coal City in Grundy county; and Beecher in Will county. In Bourbonnais in Kankakee county, a 20 foot by 120 foot metal framed storage building was picked up and carried 10 feet. It landed on 9 parked vehicles. The storage building was a total loss and all nine vehicles suffered major damage. A 16 year old boy was struck by lightning at golf course in Capron in Boone county, the boy died two days later on August 11th. Over 50,000 customers lost power during the storms.