Lightning, Kent
- When
- July 14, 7:30 PM EST
- Where
- Kent County, Rock Hall
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.236, -76.096 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail and Lightning Strike in Maryland, July 14, 2000
A severe thunderstorm dropped hail as large as walnuts in the Rock Hall and Piney Neck areas of Kent County and damaged crops. One farm lost 30 percent of its 90 acre soybean crop and the farm's corn crop looked as though it went through a shredder.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 PHI wrote it up.
A severe thunderstorm dropped hail as large as walnuts in the Rock Hall and Piney Neck areas of Kent County and damaged crops. One farm lost 30 percent of its 90 acre soybean crop and the farm's corn crop looked as though it went through a shredder. The severe thunderstorm also tore down branches in the county. Conectiv Energy reported about 10,000 customers throughout the Eastern Shore lost power the evening and night of the 14th because of the severe thunderstorms. The same evening a boater was struck and injured by lightning in Rock Hall. The man was just past a jetty in the harbor fronting the marina when he was climbing a ladder from the lower to the upper deck. The jolt knocked him off the ladder.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 lightning, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kent
- When
- July 14, 7:40 PM EST
- Where
- Kent County, Rock Hall
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 39.133, -76.233
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Louisiana, July 14 to 22, 2000
- Heat in Missouri, July 14 to 16, 2000
- Heat in Alabama, July 14 to 21, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Maryland, July 14 to 15, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, July 14, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, July 14, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in New York, July 14, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 14, 2000
- Tornado in Kentucky, July 14, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 14, 2000
- Wildfire and Hail in South Dakota, July 14, 2000
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 14, 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: 5162862, 5162861.