A police cruiser was hit by a strike of lightning in Newcastle, Oklahoma. Screengrab from the Newcastle Emergency Management's Facebook post. Surveillance video at the New Castle Police Department in Oklahoma caught an unexpected surprise during severe weather. On May 19, a lightning strike hit a police cruiser in the department’s parking lot.

Video footage captured by Oklahoma's Newcastle Emergency Management shows a police car hit by lightning during a storm in Newcastle, Oklahoma on Monday. A tornado watch had been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of central Oklahoma,