Lightning, Hamilton
- When
- August 2, 6:53 PM EST to 7:27 PM EST
- Where
- Hamilton County, Carmel
- Property damage
- $81,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.073, -86.052 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 2, 2000
3 separate homes in the Carmel area sustained lightning strikes and subsequent damage.
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
- $81,000
- 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 IND wrote it up.
3 separate homes in the Carmel area sustained lightning strikes and subsequent damage.
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:54 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, August 2, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 2, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Pennsylvania, August 2 to 3, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in New York, August 2, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, August 2, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 2, 2000
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 2, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 2, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 2, 2000
- Wildfire in California, August 2 to 9, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 2, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, August 2, 2000
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, 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: 5176076.