Lightning Strike in New Mexico, August 23, 1997

Deaths

0

Injuries

2

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.

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Lightning

A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Tornado and Hail in Iowa, August 23, 1997$575,000 · F1 · 4 events
• Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, August 23, 1997$287,000 · F0 · 9 events
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 23, 1997$98,000 · 1.5 in hail · 5 events
• Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, August 23, 1997$85,000 · 2 events
• Damaging Wind in Texas, August 23, 1997$50,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 23, 1997$45,000 · 61 kt wind · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Minnesota, August 23, 1997$40,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 23, 19971 injured · 2 events
• Hail in Wisconsin, August 23, 19971.75 in hail · 8 events
• Hail in Minnesota, August 23, 19971.5 in hail · 3 events
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 23, 19971 in hail · 3 events
• High Wind in Idaho, August 23, 199756 kt wind · 2 events

Every storm in New Mexico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, August 1997

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: 5619357.