Lightning, Fairfield
- When
- August 24, 7:00 AM EST
- Where
- Fairfield County, Shelton
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 41.326, -73.447 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Connecticut, August 24, 1996
Lightning struck a house at 41 Honeybee Lane in Shelton. The lightning caused a basement fire that resulted in about two thousand dollars damage.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a house at 41 Honeybee Lane in Shelton. The lightning caused a basement fire that resulted in about two thousand dollars damage.
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:57 UTC.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in Oregon, August 24 to 31, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Rhode Island, August 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, August 24, 1996
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5584027.