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They say lightning never strikes twice in the same spot... but how about four times?

"It was definitely the closest I've ever seen a lightning strike," LT. Jay Kircher said.

LT. Jay Kircher says he and his crew were sitting in the operations center when they heard the crack and then saw four lighting bolts come down and make a meteor like hole right in the center of the tarmac with spraying debris everywhere.

"I remember it was so different, usually you just hear it, you hear the crack and maybe a little rumble, but this was like a transformer about to explode," Kircher explained.

The U.S. Coast Guard has strict guidelines in place as far as severe weather goes, and all of their pilots have spent much of their careers studying it, and they say they have never seen anything like this.

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"It was a very interesting site and its something most of us have never seen before," Kircher said. "The amazing thing was that four distinct lightning bolts hit the same spot."

These are the chunks of rock that exploded out of the tarmac and remained after the strike.

Officials here say they can't figure out why the lightning would hit this location even once.

"The most surprising thing for us is that it hit a flat surface. It was the lowest part of the ground in the area."

LT. Kircher says this is just one more reminder of why the Coast Guard has strict policies in place for severe weather, not just in the air, but also on the ground.

Nobody was injured and no equipment was damaged in the strike.