Lightning Strike in Florida, August 20, 1997

Deaths

0

Injuries

1

Property damage

None recorded

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.

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:22 UTC.

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Lightning

A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Heavy Rain in Connecticut, August 20 to 21, 19972 deaths · 2 events
• Flash Flood in New Jersey, August 20 to 21, 1997$54 million · 1 event
• Damaging Winds in Utah, August 20, 19971 death · 59 kt wind · 2 events
• Flash Flood in New Jersey, August 20 to 21, 1997$2.1 million · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 20, 19971 injured · $1.2 million · 87 kt wind · 5 events
• Flash Flood in New Jersey, August 20 to 21, 1997$500,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in New Jersey, August 20 to 21, 1997$500,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Winds in Texas, August 20, 1997$450,000 · 2 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 20, 1997$87,000 · 2 in hail · 30 events
• Tornado in Florida, August 20, 1997$100,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 20, 1997$75,000 · 60 kt wind · 4 events
• Flood in Michigan, August 20 to 22, 1997$50,000 · 1 event

Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, August 1997

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: 5617444.