Lightning in Manatee County, Florida

Lightning May 19, 1999 · Manatee County, Florida

Injuries

What the National Weather Service wrote

Seven migrant farm workers were struck and injured by lightning while taking refuge under a steel flatbed fruit truck during a thunderstorm along Verna Bethany Road between State Roads 70 and 64, eleven miles northwest of Myakka City. The lightning victims suffered mainly minor leg and arm injuries.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5696948. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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