Lightning in Douglas County, Nebraska

Lightning August 10, 2005 · Douglas County, Nebraska

$2.0M

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Lightning struck a midtown Omaha holiday decorating business starting a fire which quickly destroyed it. The storm responsible for the damage rolled across the city and produced a large number of cloud-to-ground lightning strokes as well as dropping at least 1 to 2 inches of rain on a large part of the metro area. There was over 15,000 lightning strikes, including cloud-to-ground stikes, in a four-county radius of Omaha according to the Omaha World Herald this night.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5473600. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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