Lightning, Hancock
- When
- April 28, 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hancock County, East Blue Hill
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.563, -68.368 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Maine, April 28, 1999
Lightning ignited a fire that burned about 6 acres of land in East Blue Hill. Sixty to seventy firefighters from the area responded to the blaze for about six hours.
Where it happened
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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 GYX wrote it up.
Lightning ignited a fire that burned about 6 acres of land in East Blue Hill. Sixty to seventy firefighters from the area responded to the blaze for about six hours. A Maine Forest Service helicopter and a tanker truck from Ellsworth were also called in.
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 168 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:59 UTC.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Tornado in South Carolina, April 28, 1999
- High Surf in California, April 28, 1999
- High Wind in California, April 28, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 28, 1999
- Flood and Hail in Florida, April 28 to 29, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kentucky, April 28, 1999
- Waterspouts in Florida, April 28 to 29, 1999
- Hail in Georgia, April 28, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 28, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, April 28, 1999
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: 5701353.