Lightning, Adams
- When
- August 3, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County, Easton
- Property damage
- $13,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.970, -89.771 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 3, 2000
Lightning struck the roof of a home, causing a fire, which completely gutted the attic. Within minutes, another home was hit by lightning, damaging a freezer in the basement.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $13,000
- 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 ARX wrote it up.
Lightning struck the roof of a home, causing a fire, which completely gutted the attic. Within minutes, another home was hit by lightning, damaging a freezer in the basement. No one was injured in either incident.
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:00 UTC.
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
- Dust Storm in Nevada, August 3, 2000
- Heat in Texas, August 3, 2000
- Flood in Illinois, August 3, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 3, 2000
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 3, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, August 3, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 3, 2000
- Hail in Florida, August 3, 2000
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 3, 2000
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 3, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, August 3, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 3, 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: 5155677.