Lightning — Denali, Alaska

2015-06-24 to 2015-06-25 · near Healy, Denali, Alaska

Wider weather episode

A thermal trough helped produce numerous thunderstorms during the afternoon of June 24th. Lightning from one of these thunderstorms struck a residence in Healy, Alaska. The lightning entered a phone box on the side of the house and traveled through the wires of the house and then exited through the rain gutter. The phone box and gutter were both destroyed as well as some inside appliances. Damage amount is a rough guess based only on the news article description.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 592044. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.