“…During the past decades, much attention has been paid to the modeling of return‐strokes to tall strike objects (e.g., Baba & Rakov, 2005a, 2005b, 2007; Bermudez et al., 2003, 2005; Pavanello, Rachidi, Rubinstein, et al., 2007; Pavanello, Rachidi, Janischewskyj, et al., 2007; Rachidi et al., 2001, 2002). Other studies have also taken into account the grounding conditions (Petrache et al., 2005), the presence of an upward‐connecting leader (e.g., Mosaddeghi et al., 2011; Shostak et al., 2000), and wave interactions at the return‐stroke wavefront (De Conti et al., 2015; Mosaddeghi et al., 2011;Shoory et al., 2011). Nonuniform, multiple‐section modeling of the struck tower was considered in Boev and Janischewskyj (2011), Rahimian and Hussein (2015).…”