Lightning, Weld
- When
- April 20, 4:00 PM MST
- Where
- Weld County, Windsor
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.555, -104.392 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Colorado, April 20, 2000
Lightning ignited a fire at a mobile home sales business near Windsor. Four double-wide home sections were destroyed in the blaze.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $200,000
- 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 BOU wrote it up.
Lightning ignited a fire at a mobile home sales business near Windsor. Four double-wide home sections were destroyed in the blaze.
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:04 UTC.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, April 20, 2000
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 20, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 20, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 20, 2000
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 20, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, April 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 20, 2000
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 20, 2000
- Flooding and Hail in Michigan, April 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 20, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, April 20, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 20, 2000
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, April 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: 5137670.