Lightning, Rockingham
- When
- July 18, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Rockingham County, Rye
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 42.985, -71.089 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 18, 2000
Lightning struck and injured two individuals who were standing next to a building. Both were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
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- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 and injured two individuals who were standing next to a building. Both were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. In a separate incident, lightning caused minor damage to the basement of a home. The lightning apparently struck a nearby tree, then traveled through the ground to the basement of the home.
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:00 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 Louisiana, July 18, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, July 18, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, July 18, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 18, 2000
- Heat in Texas, July 18, 2000
- Flood and Heavy Rain in Nebraska, July 18 to 19, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 18, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, July 18, 2000
- Flood in Illinois, July 18, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 18, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 18, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 18, 2000
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, July 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: 5173491.