Lightning, Coos
- When
- March 22, 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Coos County, Colebrook
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.690, -71.305 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, March 22, 1999
Lightning struck a building which housed a local newspaper and an internet service in Colebrook. One employee of the newspaper was slightly injured when an electrical surge travelled through a phone handset into her ear and out her left arm.
Where it happened
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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.
Lightning struck a building which housed a local newspaper and an internet service in Colebrook. One employee of the newspaper was slightly injured when an electrical surge travelled through a phone handset into her ear and out her left arm. After the incident the reporter's ear was reported to be pink and her arm was reported to be numb and quivering. Two thirds of the phone lines and six computers were struck. The lightning was also reported to have travelled along the ceiling of the news 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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 22, 1999
- Flash Flooding and High Wind in Massachusetts, March 22, 1999
- Storm Surge in Maine, March 22, 1999
- High Wind in Maine, March 22, 1999
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 22 to 23, 1999
- Strong Wind in New Hampshire, March 22, 1999
- Flash Flooding in New York, March 22, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, March 22 to 23, 1999
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Rhode Island, March 22, 1999
- Flash Flooding in New Jersey, March 22 to 24, 1999
- Flood and Strong Wind in Connecticut, March 22 to 25, 1999
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, March 22, 1999
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, March 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5701346.