Lightning, Grafton
- When
- July 6, 2:25 PM EST
- Where
- Grafton County, Piermont
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.941, -71.820 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 6, 1999
A 14-year old boy was injured inside a cabin when lightning struck nearby and followed electrical wires inside the cabin. The boy was unplugging a CD player at the time.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS GYX wrote it up.
A 14-year old boy was injured inside a cabin when lightning struck nearby and followed electrical wires inside the cabin. The boy was unplugging a CD player at the time.
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:26 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
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, July 6, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, July 6, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 6, 1999
- Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, July 6 to 7, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 6, 1999
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, July 6 to 7, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 6, 1999
- Wildfire in California, July 6, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 6, 1999
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, July 1999
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5716004.