Lightning, Plaquemines
- When
- July 22, 7:30 AM CST
- Where
- Plaquemines County, Empire
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 29.544, -89.820 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning set two oil field water storage tanks on fire.
Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 22, 1998
1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Flooding and Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 22, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 22, 1998
- Flash Flood in Utah, July 22, 1998
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 22, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 22, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 22, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 22 to 28, 1998
- Heat in North Carolina, July 22 to 23, 1998
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 22, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 22, 1998
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, July 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: 5666183.