Lightning, Fairfield
- When
- March 26, 12:49 AM EST
- Where
- Fairfield County, Sandy Hook
- Property damage
- $60,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 41.326, -73.447 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Connecticut, March 26, 2000
Lightning struck and shattered a large tree and ignited a fire at 27 Russett Road near the Lower Paugussett State Forest in Sandy Hook. The fire caused more than $60,000 in damage to this single family house.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $60,000
- 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 OKX wrote it up.
Lightning struck and shattered a large tree and ignited a fire at 27 Russett Road near the Lower Paugussett State Forest in Sandy Hook. The fire caused more than $60,000 in damage to this single family house.
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:51 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
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, March 26, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, March 26, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, March 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, March 26, 2000
- Flash Flood in Georgia, March 26, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, March 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 26, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, March 26, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, March 26, 2000
- Tornadoes in Texas, March 26, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, March 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, March 26, 2000
More
Every storm in Connecticut in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Connecticut, March 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: 5139683.