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Summer storm hits Puget Sound

05:42 AM PDT on Tuesday, August 26, 2008

KING5.com Staff

SEATTLE – A storm filled with lightning, hail and flooding moved through the Puget Sound region Monday afternoon.

Video shows lightning strikes on the Kitsap Peninsula and flooding was spotted on Wheaton Way in East Bremerton. Cars and trucks drove through the reported 10-inch deep water in a Taco Bell parking lot.

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A view from Seattle shows a lightning strike along the Kitsap Peninsula on Monday, August 25, 2008.

Heavy rain was also reported in White Center as the cell moved east.

Traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle was brought to a crawl on the wet roads.

KING 5 Meteorologist Jeff Renner says most of the activity was in the central Puget Sound region, although there were some stray lightning bolts in other areas.

Renner also said a wall cloud formed during the early part of the lightning storm, which could have been a precursor to a funnel cloud.

"That is an extension that comes out of the base of a thunderstorm and often begins to rotate," said Renner.

More than an inch of rain fell in Bremerton by 5 p.m. Monday.

There were no reports of abnormally strong winds with the storm.

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