PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Thunderstorms rolled through parts of the West Valley early this morning, and the lightning caused two fires in Avondale.

One fire lit up the pre-dawn sky when a palm tree caught on fire , while the other was a home that burned . The storms were not limited to the Valley. In Flagstaff, two people were struck by lightning on Humphreys Peak.

A lot of the lightning action in the Valley moved between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Doppler radar estimated 46 lightning strikes around this time from the west Valley into the surrounding areas to the southwest.

Notice the big cluster of bolts over Avondale, just west of Phoenix.

Later in the morning, there were even more strikes across parts of southern, western, and northern Arizona including Flagstaff.

What caused all of th

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