2009 Lightning Fatalities -  

 

2009 Lightning Fatalities
No. Date Day ST City Age Sex Location Activity Victim
1 3/15 Sun TX Port Aransas 63 M On beach Walking to car Stan Grassel
2 4/25 Sat KS Perry 45 M Highway On motorcycle Troy Gentzler
3 5/6 Wed MN St. Cloud 42 M Back yard Yard work Chad Giroux
4 5/16 Sat MS Yazoo County 18 M Corn field   Andrew Williams
5 6/3 Wed CA Fontana 40 F Under tree Walking to bus Tina Marie Bond
6 6/3 Wed VA Fredericksburg 12 M Ball field Playing baseball Chelal Matos
7 6/3 Wed TX Crystal Beach 33 M Beach Jogging Isaias Lara-Matinez
8 6/3 Wed CA Portola 70 F Near tree Yard work MaryAnn Heald
9 6/5 Fri CO Evans 21 M Open field Walking Efrain Trevizo-Molina
10 6/8 Mon FL Coral Springs 53 M In yard Trimming grass Dessalines Oleus
11 6/8 Mon NC Fairview 65 M In field Clearing brush Donald M. Lynch
12 6/10 Wed KY Shelbyville 44 M Under tree Waiting for ride Brian Larsh
13 6/11 Thu IN Indianapolis 10 M Near tree Going to car Jeremiah Miller
14 6/11 Thu FL Sebring 32 M Near tree Golfing Pierre Hyppolite
15 6/17 Wed MO Columbia 23 F Open field Fishing Georgette Tillett
16 6/27 Sat PR Moca 43 M Outside home Cutting lawn Antonio C. Mangual
17 7/1 Wed MA Orleans 41 M Boat Shell fishing Christopher West
18 7/3 Fri NY Lloyd 35 M Outside home Building treehouse Dan Schlosser
19 7/4 Sat FL North Lakeland 30 M Open field Soccer Benjamin Gonzalez
20 7/4 Sat NM Rio Rancho 26 M Parking lot Seeking shelter Jarrod Truesdale
21 7/4 Sat MT Billings 26 M Park Seeking shelter Blake Harmon
22 7/6 Mon AL Atmore 51 F Yard Taking out trash Dawn Yoder
23 7/8 Wed FL Melbourne Bch 54 M Beach Seeking shelter Frank Paxton
24 7/21 Tue MN Stillwater 14 F Outside home Playing in rain Taylor Zimmerman
25 7/26 Sun NJ Newark 22 M Under tree In unsafe shelter Isaac Coello-Pineda
26 7/27 Mon NC Southern Shores 49 M Beach Jogging Matthew Glomb
27 8/5 Wed PA Bethlehem 53 M Outside home Yardwork Anthony Vaccaro
28 8/27 Thu TX Bedford 19 F Outside home Crossing street Taylor Lawson
29 8/30 Sun NM Quemado 61 M Near tree Hunting Harry Beggerly
30 9/5 Sat FL Soldier Key 37 M Boat Fishing Ernesto Perez-Suarez
31 9/5 Sat LA Lake Charles 44 M Boat Fishing Joe Landry
32 9/20 Sun AZ Clay Springs 68 M Roadway Riding motorcycle Ben McLachlan
33 9/25 Fri NC Wrightsville Beach 18 M Beach Swimming John Edward Sackett
34 10/8 Thu MO Phillipsburg 40 M Outside home Checking cattle Jesus Guadalupe Perez

Lightning Fatalities for 2009 by State

2009 Lightning Deaths

2009 Lightning Fatality Demographics
State Gender Age Day of Week By Month
AL 1 Male 28 (82%) 0-9 0 (0%) Sun 4 (12%)   09 08 07 06 Norm*
AZ 1 Fem 6 (18%) 10-19 6 (18%) Mon 4 (12%) Jan 0 1 0 1 0
CA 2   20-29 5 (15%) Tue 1 (3%) Feb 0 1 0 0 0
CO 1   30-39 5 (15%) Wed 10 (29%)

Mar

 1 0 1 0 1
FL 5   40-49 9 (26%) Thu 4 (12%) Apr 1 0 1 3 2
IN 1   50-59 4 (12%) Fri 3 (9%) May 2 2 5 5 6
KS 1   60-69 3 (12%) Sat 8 (24%) Jun 12 9 12 10 13
KY 1   70-79 1 (3%)     Jul 10 14 10 16 17
LA 1   80-89 0 (0%)     Aug 3 0 9 7 13
MA 1           Sep 4 1 5 4 5
MN 2           Oct 1* 0 2 2 1
MO 2           Nov   0 0 0 0
MS 1           Dec   0 0 0 0
MT 1           Year 34* 28 45 48 58
NC 3                      
NJ 1                      
NM 2                      
NY 1                      
PA 1                      
PR 1                      
TX 3                      
VA 1                      
Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
 * - Known Fatalities to date

Note: Monthly normals are based on the 30 year average of 58 deaths per year (1979-2008) multiplied by the average monthly percentage of annual deaths from 1959-1994 as documented in NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS SR-193 with December 1961 plane crash fatalities.