Lightning strike kills 31 cows in northern Alabama.

More than 30 cows were killed Saturday when lightning struck in Cullman County, according to reports from news outlets.
WVTM reported that the beef cattle were sheltering under a tree during a severe storm on Daymin Gardner’s farm in Berlin, when lightning struck the tree, killing 31 of the cattle.
A Facebook post from the Cullman Daily News showed an image of the cows lying lifeless below a tree on Gardner’s farm.
His brother, Tim Gardner, told WVTM that they plan to give the animals a proper burial and that the meat was not salvageable because of how the cows died.
There were scattered severe thunderstorms across northern Alabama on Saturday, bringing rain, lightning, wind and possible hail to some areas. More severe weather is possible Sunday and Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
The weather service says lightning kills about 20 people in the United States annually. This year, there have been six lightning fatalities in the U.S., including a 6-year-old in Texas.
(When I was young, I worked on a farm from the time I was 7 until about the time I graduated. In 1975 or ’76 we lost 8 cows that had their heads sticking through a barbed wire fence that was nailed to a long dead huge longleaf pine tree. It was a hard Florida rain with quite a bit of lightning. We heard a loud crack while we were in the dairy barn and looked out and they were on the ground.)