Lightning, San Bernardino
- When
- August 15, 1:00 PM PST to August 17, 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- San Bernardino County, Wrightwood
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.841, -116.178 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strikes in California, August 15 to 17, 2000
Nineteen brush fires were started by lightning.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- 2
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 SGX wrote it up.
Nineteen brush fires were started by lightning.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning, Riverside
- When
- August 15, 2:00 PM PST to August 17, 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Riverside County, Anza
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.744, -115.994 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- High Surf in California, August 15, 2000
- Wildfire in Montana, August 15 to 31, 2000
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 15, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, August 15 to 16, 2000
- Flash Flood in New York, August 15, 2000
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, August 15, 2000
- High Wind in Michigan, August 15, 2000
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 15, 2000
- Waterspouts in Florida, August 15, 2000
- Rip Currents in American Samoa, August 15 to 18, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Alabama, August 15, 2000
- Wildfire in Wyoming, August 15 to 31, 2000
More
Every storm in California in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in California, August 2000
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: 5155041, 5155042.