Lightning, Blount
- When
- May 23, 5:30 PM EST
- Where
- Blount County, Maryville
- Property damage
- $6.0 million
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 35.687, -83.925 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Tennessee, May 23, 1999
Lightning started a fire at Fayerweather Hall at Maryville College. The fire gutted the entire third floor of the 100 year-old structure.
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
- $6.0 million
- 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 MRX wrote it up.
Lightning started a fire at Fayerweather Hall at Maryville College. The fire gutted the entire third floor of the 100 year-old structure. Smoke and water damaged the remainder of the building. Up to 100 firefighters were involved in the two hour effort to extinguish the blaze.
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
- Lightning Strike in California, May 23, 1999
- Tornadoes in Michigan, May 23, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 23, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Oklahoma, May 23, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Texas, May 23, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 23, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 23, 1999
- Flooding in Kansas, May 23 to 24, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 23, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 23, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 23, 1999
- Heavy Rain in Rhode Island, May 23 to 24, 1999
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, May 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: 5694526.