Lightning, Palm Beach
- When
- June 9, 2:15 PM EST
- Where
- Palm Beach County, Belle Glade
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 26.648, -80.436 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Florida, June 9, 1996
A corrections officer at the Belle Glade Correctional Institute was injured by a lightning strike. The lightning passed through a glass window of a security tower and shocked the woman sitting in a chair.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
A corrections officer at the Belle Glade Correctional Institute was injured by a lightning strike. The lightning passed through a glass window of a security tower and shocked the woman sitting in a chair. Other lightning strikes throughout Palm Beach County did minor damage to a dozen houses and a lifeguard tower.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Virginia, June 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 9, 1996
- Tornado in Tennessee, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, June 9, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 9, 1996
- Flood in Indiana, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 9 to 10, 1996
- Tornado in Virginia, June 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 9, 1996
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5562016.