Lightning, Ware
- When
- July 12, 2:30 PM EST
- Where
- Ware County, Waycross
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.054, -82.424 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The 911 Center damaged.
Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 12, 2001
1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 12, 12:41 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 12:41 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 141 PM EDT THU JUL 12 2001 THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUES DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS NE FL FROM THE GULF. A GOOD AREA OF CU IS ALSO BUILDING OVER SE GA. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF THE FORECASTER AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SOUTHWEST TO WEST SURFACE WINDS APPEAR TO BE TOO STRONG TO FAVOR AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE DEVELOPMENT. OTHERWISE... WITH UPPER LEVEL TROF MOVE OVER THE AREA AND THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE SHIFTING WEST... IT LOOKS LIKE THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO NE GA LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND IT SHOULD BE SOUTH FORECAST AREA BY 12Z SATURDAY. MUCH DRIER AIR BEHIND THE FRONT SHOULD PROVIDE A RAIN FREE SATURDAY. MARINE... WILL TAKE SEAS TO 4 TO 6 FEET FOR GA WATERS FRIDAY NIGHT AND BUILDING TO 5 TO 7 THROUGH SATURDAY. FOR FL WATERS SEAS BUILDING TO 4 TO 6 SATURDAY. PRELIM AMG 74/92/73/88 4850 SSI 75/91/75/88 4850 JAQX 75/92/74/88 4850 GNV 76/91/74/89 4961 22 .JAX... .FL...NONE. .GA...NONE. JOHNSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 10:58 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-122100- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL NOON EDT THU JUL 12 2001 A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...COMBINED WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND A MORE PRONOUNCED SOUTHWEST WIND... WILL RESULT IN THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. DOPPLER RADAR ALREADY WAS SHOWING A DEVELOPING CLUSTER OF STORMS NORTHWEST TO SOUTHWEST OF GAINESVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST. MOST OF THE COVERAGE WILL BE IN NORTH AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA BUT STORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AS WELL...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE STATE LINE AND OKEFENOKEE SWAMP. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THE STORMS WILL BE FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY WINDS. DUE TO THE RELATIVELY SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME STORMS...ESPECIALLY IN NORTH FLORIDA. DUE TO THE MOVEMENT TO THE NORTHEAST...THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO MOVE INTO THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AS WELL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE IMMINENT. SINCE THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...INCLUDING LIGHTNING AND HOT WEATHER SAFETY TIPS...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. PETERSON
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flood in Washington, July 12, 2001
- Heat in Mississippi, July 12, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 12, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Montana, July 12 to 13, 2001
- Wildfire in California, July 12, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 2001
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: 5257801.