WFLA NEWS CH8 7PM August 26, 2016
Shelter in a gazebo when the lightning hit. Steve joins us live in the forecast center. This can happen in the summer storms that crop up almost every day. Lightning is a danger we take for granted every day. I dont know the exact circumstances that happened here, but the line of thunderstorms did pass off shore in a pretty solid line from sarasota to Pinellas County. As best we can tell according to reports we is likely when the strike would have occurred which is just north of the downtown area. And that Lightning Strike would actually have occurred after the main line of thunderstorms had m...