Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 2, 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 Roanoke radar (KFCX), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:30 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.

• Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 2, 1997$2.1 million · 2 in hail · 21 events
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, June 2 to 4, 1997$1.9 million · 0.75 in hail · 4 events
• Flash Flood and Flood in South Dakota, June 2, 1997$433,000 · 1 in hail · 4 events
• Flash Flooding and Hail in West Virginia, June 2, 1997$187,000 · 1.25 in hail · 21 events
• Flood in Ohio, June 2 to 4, 1997$75,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 2, 1997$50,000 · 1 event
• Flood in Ohio, June 2 to 3, 1997$50,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, June 2, 1997$26,000 · 1.75 in hail · 11 events
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 2, 1997$30,000 · 0.75 in hail · 4 events
• Flood and Hail in Colorado, June 2 to 6, 19971 injured · 2 in hail · 18 events
• Flood in Ohio, June 2 to 4, 1997$25,000 · 1 event
• Hail and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 2, 19971 injured · 1.75 in hail · 8 events

Every storm in Virginia in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, June 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: 5606105.