Georgia, 1999Heat and Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 8, 1999
August 8, 1999 · NWS FFC · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
1 heat, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Heat, Sumter
- When
- August 8, 6:00 AM EST
- Where
- Sumter forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 32.040, -84.197 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A 75 year old woman was found dead of heat stroke, after going to bed with her fan and window air conditioning unit turned off.
Lightning, Gwinnett
- When
- August 8, 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Gwinnett County, 2 mi NE of Norcross
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.962, -84.024 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning, and the fire it caused, damaged the upper part of a house in the Avocet subdivision at South Old Peachtree Road and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|
| Heat, Sumter | 1999-08-08 | 75 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornado in New York, August 8, 19991 injured · $1.0 million · F2 · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 8, 19991 death · 2 injured · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 8, 19991 death · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, August 8, 19991 death · 1 event
- Hail in North Dakota, August 8, 1999$600,000 · 1.5 in hail · 1 event
- Hail in North Dakota, August 8, 19991.75 in hail · 5 events
- Flooding in Missouri, August 8 to 11, 19994 events
- Hail in Montana, August 8, 19991.75 in hail · 4 events
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 8, 199955 kt wind · 2 events
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, August 8, 19992 events
- Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, August 8, 199970 kt wind · 1 event
- Funnel Cloud in New Mexico, August 8, 19991 event
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: 5714351, 5714350.