Lightning, Berkeley
- When
- July 30, 4:10 PM EST
- Where
- Berkeley County, Martinsburg
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Coordinates
- 39.464, -78.027 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in West Virginia, July 30, 1996
Lightning struck a radio antenna cable outside a home, starting a small fire which spread into the home at 632 N. Queen Street.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $4,000
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a radio antenna cable outside a home, starting a small fire which spread into the home at 632 N. Queen Street.
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:09 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
- Rip Current in Alabama, July 30, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 30, 1996
- Tornado in Colorado, July 30, 1996
- Hail in Colorado, July 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, July 30, 1996
- Hail in Wyoming, July 30, 1996
- Tornado in Wyoming, July 30, 1996
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 30, 1996
- Tornado in West Virginia, July 30, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, July 30, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, July 30, 1996
- Tornado in West Virginia, July 30, 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: 5568143.