Lightning, King
- When
- January 2, 1:30 PM PST
- Where
- King County, Maple Vly
- Coordinates
- 47.491, -121.836 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Washington, January 2, 1997
Lightning struck a home knocking gutters off, blew the electric box out of the wall, left burn marks across the floor and melted a sewing machine. The lightning also affected two other homes, disabling a garage door and blacking out a computer.
Where it happened
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- 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 SEW wrote it up.
Lightning struck a home knocking gutters off, blew the electric box out of the wall, left burn marks across the floor and melted a sewing machine. The lightning also affected two other homes, disabling a garage door and blacking out a computer.
The radar
The Seattle radar (KATX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:27 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.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in California, January 2 to 3, 1997
- Flash Flood in California, January 2, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Utah, January 2 to 3, 1997
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, January 2, 1997
- Flash Flooding in California, January 2, 1997
- Flash Flooding in California, January 2, 1997
- Flood and Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, January 2 to 3, 1997
- Flooding in Washington, January 2, 1997
- Flood in Hawaii, January 2, 1997
- Flood in Montana, January 2, 1997
- Heat in Alabama, January 2, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, January 2 to 3, 1997
More
Every storm in Washington in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, January 1997
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: 5585230.