1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:27 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 64 year old Oxford man suffered only minor injuries after being struck by lightning. He was walking in his yard with his grandson at the time. The lightning bolt burned a hole in his shirt and singed hairs on his left knee. He was taken to the hospital but then released.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 1998
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: 5666188.