Lightning in Fairfax County, Virginia

Lightning April 28, 2002 · Fairfax County, Virginia

$1.2M

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Lightning started a fire which destroyed an office building.

The wider storm

A thunderstorm which moved through Fairfax County around 9 AM EDT on the 28th caused a lightning strike that started a fire at an office building in Oakton. The structure on Hunter Mill Road was burnt to the ground, resulting in $1.2 million in damage.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5292444. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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