Lightning in Tulare County, California

Lightning July 28, 2005 · Tulare County, California

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Lightning struck a group of camping Boy Scouts at the 10,700 foot elevation of Sandy Meadow 4 miles west of Mt. Whitney on the John Muir Trail on the 28th. There were 9 individuals struck in a tent that had been erected as shelter from the thunderstorm with one immediate fatality and another critically injured that expired the next day.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5466622. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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