Lightning, Rock Island
- When
- August 19, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rock Island County, Rock Is
- Coordinates
- 41.467, -90.567 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 19, 1996
Lighting ignited 3 structures and cut electrical power to customers.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- 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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 DVN wrote it up.
Lighting ignited 3 structures and cut electrical power to customers.
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:01 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
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- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 19, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 19, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, August 19, 1996
- Tornado in Michigan, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 19, 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: 5567244.