Lightning, Chelan
- When
- July 6, 11:23 AM PST
- Where
- Chelan County, 1 mi E of Wenatchee
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 47.869, -120.619 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Washington, July 6, 2006
Lightning struck a man as he entered a motor vehicle. The man was found unconscious, but later was treated and released from a hospital.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- 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 OTX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a man as he entered a motor vehicle. The man was found unconscious, but later was treated and released from a hospital.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 9:00 AM PST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:00 AM PST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1000 AM PDT THU JUL 6 2006 .SYNOPSIS...A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE INLAND NORTHWEST FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD FROM THE WEST CREATING BREEZY AND COOLER CONDITIONS ON FRIDAY. && .DISCUSSION... REST OF TODAY...STAGE IS SET FOR ANOTHER BUSY WEATHER DAY ACROSS THE INLAND NORTHWEST. PLENTY OF POTENTIAL INSTABILITY ALREADY IN PLACE OVER THE REGION AS EVIDENCED BY ELEVATED CONVECTION EARLY THIS MORNING. SO FAR THIS MORNING...THE BATCH OF CONVECTION OVER THE WATERVILLE PLATEAU AND OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS WAS THE MOST ACTIVE. HOWEVER A NEW AREA OF CONVECTION...CURRENTLY OVER THE PALOUSE...WILL SOON MOVE INTO MORE UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT OVER THE SPOKANE AREA AND POINTS NORTHEAST AND COULD BECOME RATHER STRONG. ZONES HAVE BEEN UPDATED ACCORDINGLY. ANOTHER AREA OF ELEVATED CONVECTION WILL STREAM NORTHWARD ALONG THE LEE OF THE CASCADES THROUGH THE MORNING. BY THIS AFTERNOON...WE WILL COMBINE THE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL INSTABILITY WITH THE SYNOPTIC LIFTING AND INCREASED UPPER LEVEL COOLING FROM A NEGATIVE TILTED TROF AXIS...CURRENTLY MOVING ONTO THE COAST. LOOKS LIKE ALL AREAS WILL BE SUBJECT TO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THIS FEATURE...HOWEVER DRIER AND COOLER AIR IS EXPECTED TO INVADE OUR WESTERN ZONES IN THE AFTERNOON AS THE THERMAL RIDGE SHIFTS INTO THE IDAHO PANHANDLE. MODEL CAPE VALUES AND 0-6KM SHEAR VALUES PLACE THE GREATEST THREAT FOR STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY EAST OF A LINE FROM REPUBLIC TO SPOKANE TO LEWISTON. LOOKS LIKE LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN ONCE AGAIN...WITH A SMALLER CHANCE OF DAMAGING WINDS. THE THREAT WILL RAPIDLY EXIT THE REGION THIS EVENING. FX && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 12Z FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE ISOLATED OVER THE COLUMBIA BASIN TODAY...INCREASING TO SCATTERED THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY EAST. OVER THE MOUNTAINS RINGING THE COLUMBIA BASIN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE MORNING WILL INCREASE TO SCATTERED DURING THE AFTERNOON...WITH NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS EVENING OVER THE MOUNTAINS NORTH AND EAST OF THE BASIN. /MJF && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SPOKANE 85 55 80 56 89 56 / 40 40 0 0 0 0 COEUR DALENE 85 53 81 50 89 52 / 40 40 0 0 0 0 PULLMAN 81 50 80 51 88 52 / 30 30 0 0 0 0 LEWISTON 89 60 90 59 95 61 / 30 30 0 0 0 0 COLVILLE 88 52 82 48 91 50 / 30 60 0 0 0 0 SANDPOINT 85 54 78 50 87 50 / 40 60 0 0 0 0 KELLOGG 84 53 80 54 88 53 / 40 60 0 0 0 0 MOSES LAKE 88 57 86 55 93 57 / 10 10 0 0 0 0 WENATCHEE 86 59 85 60 92 61 / 20 20 0 0 0 0 OMAK 87 56 87 56 94 57 / 30 20 0 0 0 0 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...NONE. WA...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 5:13 AM PST, 6 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 613 AM PDT THU JUL 6 2006 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-071315- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-WENATCHEE AREA- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SANDPOINT...RATHDRUM...BONNERS FERRY... PRIEST RIVER...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN...MOSCOW... ST. MARIES...KELLOGG...PINEHURST...OSBURN...WALLACE...MULLAN... LEWISTON...KAMIAH...CRAIGMONT...NEZPERCE...WINCHESTER...ANATONE... PEOLA...CLARKSTON...PULLMAN...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO... QUINCY...RITZVILLE...COULEE DAM...ODESSA...ELECTRIC CITY... WILBUR...GRAND COULEE...COULEE CITY...SPOKANE...COLVILLE... DEER PARK...CHEWELAH...NEWPORT...KETTLE FALLS...REPUBLIC... INCHELIUM...WENATCHEE...LEAVENWORTH...MAZAMA...TWISP...WINTHROP... OMAK...OKANOGAN...BREWSTER...BRIDGEPORT...OROVILLE...WATERVILLE... MANSFIELD 613 AM PDT THU JUL 6 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO...NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE AREA WITH THE POTENIAL OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE THREAT OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECETED.
The radar
The Seattle radar (KATX), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:22 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
- Rip Current in Florida, July 6, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 6, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Washington, July 6, 2006
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 6, 2006
- Tornado in Florida, July 6, 2006
- Flash Flood in Nevada, July 6, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 6, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 6, 2006
- Hail in Idaho, July 6, 2006
- Hail in Oregon, July 6, 2006
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 6, 2006
- Hail in Wyoming, July 6, 2006
More
Every storm in Washington in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, July 2006
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: 5524593.