HARRISBURG - A lightning bolt that hit the state lottery control center Wednesday evening resulted in an $850,000 revenue loss for the state.

The bolt struck a high-speed data line in an online vendor facility in the Harrisburg area terminal and as a result put two-thirds of lottery ticket stations out of order in convenience stores and newsstands across the state, mostly in Western and Eastern Pennsylvania.

The losses totaled about 1.5 percent of the state lottery's average $50.8 million weekly sales.

The problem was resolved by about 8:21 p.m. Wednesday.