Lightning, Newport
- When
- July 4, 8:00 AM EST
- Where
- Newport County, Tiverton
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.500, -71.281 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, July 4, 1999
Thunderstorms with frequent lightning moving across Rhode Island started a house fire in Tiverton.
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
- 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 BOX wrote it up.
Thunderstorms with frequent lightning moving across Rhode Island started a house fire in Tiverton.
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:02 UTC.
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 Pennsylvania, July 4 to 6, 1999
- Heat in New York, July 4 to 6, 1999
- Heat in Maryland, July 4 to 7, 1999
- Heat in New Jersey, July 4 to 6, 1999
- Heat in New Jersey, July 4 to 6, 1999
- Heat in District of Columbia, July 4 to 7, 1999
- Heat in Virginia, July 4 to 7, 1999
- Heat in Delaware, July 4 to 6, 1999
- Heat in Michigan, July 4 to 5, 1999
- Flood and Hail in North Dakota, July 4, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Michigan, July 4 to 31, 1999
- Rip Current in Alabama, July 4, 1999
More
Every storm in Rhode Island in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Rhode Island, 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: 5710645.