Lightning, Kern
- When
- August 28, 3:40 PM PST to 5:40 PM PST
- Where
- Kern County, 8 mi E of Lake Isabella
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.343, -118.730 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in California, August 28, 2000
Late afternoon convection became active enough to threaten meeting severe weather threshold concerns. Low pressure centered off the Central California coast advected sub-tropical moisture northward into the Tulare County Mountain and Kern County areas.
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
- 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 HNX wrote it up.
Late afternoon convection became active enough to threaten meeting severe weather threshold concerns. Low pressure centered off the Central California coast advected sub-tropical moisture northward into the Tulare County Mountain and Kern County areas. Although none of the 3 severe weather warnings (two severe thunderstorm warnings and one flash flood warning) verified, radar indicated a band of thunderstorms developed from 8 miles east of Lake Isabella southward to 10 miles east of Tehachapi by 1600 hours PST (largest concentration of lightning strikes east of Lake Isabella and east of Tehachapi). Although numerous lightning strikes occurred no severe weather criteria was reported. Thunderstorm activity diminished by 1800 PST in the eastern portions of Kern County.
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
- Heat in Missouri, August 28 to 31, 2000
- Heat in Oklahoma, August 28, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in California, August 28, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 28, 2000
- Heat in Missouri, August 28 to 31, 2000
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, August 28, 2000
- Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, August 28, 2000
- Flooding in New Jersey, August 28, 2000
- Hail in Georgia, August 28, 2000
- Flash Flooding in New York, August 28, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Colorado, August 28, 2000
- Hail in North Dakota, August 28, 2000
More
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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: 5156257.