Lightning, Camden
- When
- July 19, 6:30 PM EST
- Where
- Camden County, Cherry Hill
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.804, -74.960 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 19, 1999
A 14-year-old boy in Cherry Hill was injured by lightning while talking on the telephone. Frequent lightning caused about 2,500 homes and businesses to lose power in Cherry Hill, Lawnside and Haddon Townships in Camden County.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 PHI wrote it up.
A 14-year-old boy in Cherry Hill was injured by lightning while talking on the telephone. Frequent lightning caused about 2,500 homes and businesses to lose power in Cherry Hill, Lawnside and Haddon Townships in Camden County. All power was restored by 6 a.m. EDT on the 20th.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Nebraska, July 19 to 30, 1999
- Heat in Illinois, July 19 to 31, 1999
- Flooding in Iowa, July 19 to 26, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 19, 1999
- Flooding in Iowa, July 19 to 22, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Nebraska, July 19 to 20, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 19, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 19, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 19, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 19, 1999
- Heat in Iowa, July 19 to 31, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, July 19, 1999
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5715139.