Lightning Damage Photos

Below are photos of situations, encountered by NLSI in its consulting and training work, that show damage caused by lightning.


Workers were safely sheltered when lightning destroyed this vehicle.	Evidence of a lightning strike.


Lightning destroyed this wind turbine blade. NLSI experience can be applied to mitigate future insults.	Signature of lightning upon Franklin lightning rod.


Lightning damage to tip of Franklin air terminal. (Photo courtesy of Heles/U.S. Army)	NLSI engineers discuss lightning damage (see burn mark on wall at center electrical panel) to electrical system at military defense factory in New Hampshire.


Arcing (center of picture) due to failure to bond in City of Huntsville, Alabama E911 communications center.	Code compliance violation at U.S. Army location in Ft. Irwin, CA.


Top half of fishing pole hit by lightning. All resin has been vaporized and nothing is left but fiber that looks like cotton candy.	(Photo by Michael Fewings, www.strikeone.com.au)


Newspaper article about a house struck by lightning in Malaysia.	Exploding concrete was part of the damage to this house foundation caused by a lightning strike.


Dead elk from a lightning strike, Mt. Evans, Colorado.	Cattle struck dead by lightning.


House damaged by lightning (the tree was missed).	Lightning traveled along this underground metal pipe.


Typical tree damage caused by lightning strike.	Atypical tree damage caused by lightning strike.


Photo 1: Major fire damage to NFPA-780 lightning-protected mansion in southeast USA.	Photo 2: Were lightning protection system installation errors responsible for this lightning-caused destruction?


Lightning's high temperatures caused entrained moisture to explode. (NASA shuttle landing runway, Kennedy Space Center, Florida)