Lightning, Union
- When
- November 20, 6:15 PM EST
- Where
- Union County, Plainfield
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.660, -74.309 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Jersey, November 20, 2000
As a line of showers moved east, an isolated thunderstorm produced lightning that struck a chimney and blew out a few windows from a house and downed part of a tree in Plainfield. The property damage cost estimate is unknown.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Marine and coastal
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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.
As a line of showers moved east, an isolated thunderstorm produced lightning that struck a chimney and blew out a few windows from a house and downed part of a tree in Plainfield. The property damage cost estimate is unknown.
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:15 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
- Heavy Snow in New York, November 20 to 22, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Winter Weather in New York, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Flooding in American Samoa, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Heavy Snow in New York, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Winter Weather in Maryland, November 20 to 21, 2000
- Winter Weather in West Virginia, November 20 to 21, 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: 5161013.