Lightning, Itasca
- When
- June 26, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Itasca County, 4 mi N of Grand Rapids
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 47.510, -93.632 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Minnesota, June 26, 1999
Lightning struck a pavilion in Gunn Park, knocking one juvenile male unconscious. Several other people were knocked to the ground.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- 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 DLH wrote it up.
Lightning struck a pavilion in Gunn Park, knocking one juvenile male unconscious. Several other people were knocked to the ground. No injuries were reported to be severe. The time is approximate.
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:59 UTC.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
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The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, June 26 to 28, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, June 26, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, June 26, 1999
- Hail in Wyoming, June 26, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Louisiana, June 26 to 27, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 26 to 27, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 26, 1999
- Hail in Wyoming, June 26, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, June 26, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, June 26, 1999
- Hail in Wyoming, June 26, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 26 to 27, 1999
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, June 1999
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: 5704935.