Lightning, Waukesha
- When
- August 5, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Waukesha County, New Berlin
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Coordinates
- 43.018, -88.304 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 5, 1996
Lightning struck a home and started a fire that completely burned the attic. The home may have been hit twice by lightning.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $150,000
- 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 MKX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a home and started a fire that completely burned the attic. The home may have been hit twice by lightning.
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 21 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:27 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.
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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: 5567021.