Story Published:
Oct 31, 2008 at 10:44 AM CST
Story Updated:
Oct 31, 2008 at 4:40 PM CST
BUFFALO, Mo. -- Lightning hit a tree and knocked down 18 students who were walking between buildings at Buffalo High School on Friday morning. The parents of one student took her to a hospital to be checked. Her injuries at the scene appeared to be minor, however.
The students were between classes and were outside near the Shewmaker Auditorium about 11 a.m. as a line of thunderstorms and heavy rains moved across southwest Missouri. The lightning went down the tree, through the ground, and left a hole near a sidewalk. When the lightning knocked down the students, some were "skinned up" as they fell on concrete.
The school staff immediately notified the parents of all the students.
