Lightning, Carter
- When
- August 18, 11:15 PM EST
- Where
- Carter County, Elizabethton
- Crop damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.293, -82.127 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 18, 1999
Mr. Harry Woods of Reynolds Road lost 30 head of cattle, worth around $1000 each.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $30,000
- 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 MRX wrote it up.
Mr. Harry Woods of Reynolds Road lost 30 head of cattle, worth around $1000 each. The lightning bolt hit an oak tree near where the cattle were standing.
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
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 18, 1999
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Minnesota, August 18, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 18, 1999
- Wildfire in Oregon, August 18 to 19, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 18, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 18, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 18, 1999
- Hail in Florida, August 18, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 18, 1999
- Heat in Georgia, August 18, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 18, 1999
- Heat in Alabama, August 18, 1999
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 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: 5707813.