Lightning, Montgomery
- When
- June 12, 5:20 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery County, Montgomeryville
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 40.211, -75.367 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, June 12, 1996
Lightning struck and traveled through the house of a Montgomery Township woman and gave her an hospitalizing electrical shock. Lightning also directly hit the township's police tower and knocked its phone system out.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- 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 PHI wrote it up.
Lightning struck and traveled through the house of a Montgomery Township woman and gave her an hospitalizing electrical shock. Lightning also directly hit the township's police tower and knocked its phone system out. It also welded a key in a lock.
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:22 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
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 12, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 12, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 12, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Vermont, June 12, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Jersey, June 12 to 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 12, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 1996
- Flash Flood in Vermont, June 12, 1996
- Flash Flood in Vermont, June 12, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 12, 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: 5567091.