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Thunderbolt in Warwickshire

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ON Sunday evening, July 2, this part of Warwickshire was visited by a very severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by torrents of rain. After the storm had subsided, about ten minutes before ten o'clock in the evening, a fireball seems to have fallen in the village of Dunchurch, an occurrence still rare enough to warrant its being placed on record.

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CUMMING, L. Thunderbolt in Warwickshire. Nature 48, 341–342 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048341b0

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