Lightning, Saline
- When
- August 3, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County, Benton
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.647, -92.677 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Arkansas, August 3, 1998
Lightning struck a small business, setting it on fire. The owner of the business was electrocuted.
Where it happened
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- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- 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 LZK wrote it up.
Lightning struck a small business, setting it on fire. The owner of the business was electrocuted.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Saline | 1998-08-03 | 39 | Male | Business | Direct |
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
- Heat in Texas, August 3 to 13, 1998
- Heat in Texas, August 3, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, August 3 to 27, 1998
- Heat in Oklahoma, August 3, 1998
- Flooding and Hail in Kansas, August 3 to 28, 1998
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Texas, August 3 to 30, 1998
- Tornado in Texas, August 3, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 3, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 3, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 3, 1998
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 3, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 3 to 27, 1998
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, August 1998
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: 5665111.