Lightning, Lafourche
- When
- July 26, 2:20 PM CST
- Where
- Lafourche County, 4.07 mi SSW of Rousseau
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 29.696, -90.757
Lightning triggered a fire that destroyed a home in the Bayou Blue area.
Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 26, 2010
Lightning triggered a fire in Lafourche Parish, totally destroying one home.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $75,000
- 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 LIX wrote it up.
Lightning triggered a fire in Lafourche Parish, totally destroying one home.
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.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 4:20 PM CST, 22 hours before
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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
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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: 250183.