Lightning, Rock
- When
- July 18, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rock County, Luverne
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.675, -96.253 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Minnesota, July 18, 1998
Lightning struck the Rock County agricultural building, damaging computers and the telephone system.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 FSD wrote it up.
Lightning struck the Rock County agricultural building, damaging computers and the telephone system.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:53 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
- Heat in Missouri, July 18 to 22, 1998
- Heat in Illinois, July 18 to 22, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, July 18, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 18, 1998
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 18, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 18, 1998
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 18 to 19, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 18, 1998
- Heat in Missouri, July 18 to 21, 1998
- Flood in Florida, July 18, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 18, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 18, 1998
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, 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: 5656349.