Lightning, Portage
- When
- July 14, 2:43 AM CST
- Where
- Portage County, Plover
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.476, -89.501 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 14, 1999
Lightning from a line of thunderstorms "fused section lines and disrupted transformers," causing about 100 customers to lose electrical service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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 GRB wrote it up.
Lightning from a line of thunderstorms "fused section lines and disrupted transformers," causing about 100 customers to lose electrical service.
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
- Flash Flood in Arizona, July 14, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 14, 1999
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, July 14, 1999
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Virginia, July 14, 1999
- Flash Flood in Utah, July 14, 1999
- Hail in Texas, July 14, 1999
- Flood in California, July 14, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 14, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Montana, July 14, 1999
- Flood and Hail in Florida, July 14, 1999
- Wildfire in Oregon, July 14, 1999
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, July 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: 5711311.