Lightning, Hawaii
- When
- November 18, 10:00 PM HST
- Where
- Hawaii County, 8 mi SE of Milolii
- Coordinates
- 19.602, -155.523 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Hawaii, November 18, 1997
Lightning struck a building next to the one struck just two hours earlier, damaging a computer, phone, fax machine, and repeater located in the same room.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS HFO wrote it up.
Lightning struck a building next to the one struck just two hours earlier, damaging a computer, phone, fax machine, and repeater located in the same room.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Cold in South Carolina, November 18, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Hawaii, November 18, 1997
- Cold in West Virginia, November 18, 1997
- High Wind in Oregon, November 18 to 22, 1997
- High Wind in California, November 18, 1997
- Flood in Hawaii, November 18, 1997
- Hail in Texas, November 18, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, November 18 to 19, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Hawaii, November 18, 1997
- Hail in Hawaii, November 18, 1997
- Hail in Hawaii, November 18, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Hawaii, November 18, 1997
More
Every storm in Hawaii in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Hawaii, November 1997
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: 5625668.