Lightning, Randall
- When
- July 28, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County, 8 mi SSW of Amarillo
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.966, -101.897 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Texas, July 28, 2000
Lightning struck and killed a forty-three year old woman from Amarillo during the evening as she went outside to get something from her pickup truck.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- 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 AMA wrote it up.
Lightning struck and killed a forty-three year old woman from Amarillo during the evening as she went outside to get something from her pickup truck.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Randall | 2000-07-28 | 43 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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
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- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, July 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 28, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, July 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 28, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, July 28, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, July 28, 2000
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Maryland, July 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 28, 2000
More
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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: 5176121.