SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Police in McCook County, near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said over 20 cattle were killed by lightning Thursday night.
"There (were) 21 head of cattle that were around (a) metal bale feeder when it was hit with one bolt of lightening, and it killed them all," the Moody County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post Thursday.
The sheriff's office said the estimated loss is about $45,000.
McCook County Emergency Management Director Brad Stiefvater told KSFY he has never seen anything like this in his 39 years working in the industry.