Lightning, Essex
- When
- March 25, 8:15 PM EST
- Where
- Essex County, Montclair
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.787, -74.247 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Jersey, March 25, 2000
A thunderstorm produced lightning that struck and caused a tree to explode. The force of the lightning sent pieces of the pine tree to fly 40 feet away and caused damage to a car and the side of a house at 479 Valley Road in Montclair.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- 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 OKX wrote it up.
A thunderstorm produced lightning that struck and caused a tree to explode. The force of the lightning sent pieces of the pine tree to fly 40 feet away and caused damage to a car and the side of a house at 479 Valley Road in Montclair.
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:13 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
- Rip Current in California, March 25, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, March 25 to 26, 2000
- Damaging Wind in New York, March 25, 2000
- Strong Wind in Wisconsin, March 25, 2000
- Hail in Texas, March 25, 2000
- Hail in Mississippi, March 25, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, March 25, 2000
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Alaska, March 25 to 27, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, March 25, 2000
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 2000
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 2000
- Flood in Kansas, March 25, 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: 5139682.