Lightning, Kennebec
- When
- May 7, 6:10 PM EST
- Where
- Kennebec County, Winslow
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.409, -69.767 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Maine, May 7, 2000
Lightning struck a home in Winslow, causing damage to the home and a nearby water main. The lightning burned wires in the home, blew in a window, blew a softball-sized hole in the cellar floor, and cracked open an asphalt sidewalk, and damaged or destroyed electronic equipment in the home.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $20,000
- 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 GYX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a home in Winslow, causing damage to the home and a nearby water main. The lightning burned wires in the home, blew in a window, blew a softball-sized hole in the cellar floor, and cracked open an asphalt sidewalk, and damaged or destroyed electronic equipment in the home. A tenant, who was in the home at the time, was left with a hearing problem. Also, the bolt was suspected of traveling to a nearby water main which burst under the roadway. Water flooded the roadway, and the subsequent force of the water undermined the road, a sidewalk, and a portion of the nearby railroad tracks. Damage to the water main and roadway was estimated at $10,000 to $15,000.
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:12 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
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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: 5145499.