Lightning, Carroll
- When
- August 4, 8:00 PM EST
- Where
- Carroll County, Conway
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.874, -71.203 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 4, 2001
Lightning struck a vacation home in Conway, igniting a fire that badly burned the kitchen of the home.
Where it happened
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- 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 happened
The episode as NWS GYX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a vacation home in Conway, igniting a fire that badly burned the kitchen of the home.
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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 7:13 PM EST, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 7:13 PM EST, 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 813 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2001 ZONES... WILL UPDATE TO DROP MENTION OF EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. WILL FORECAST MORE CLOUDINESS AND FOG BASED ON LOW STRATUS/FOG MOVING IN OFF THE OCEAN AS THE SEA BREEZE MOVED WELL INTO THE FOOTHILLS TODAY. THERE IS STILL SOME ISOLATED CONVECTION AT THIS TIME. RADAR SHOWING SOME THUNDERSTORMS /ONE STRONG STORM/ IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NH INTO ADJACENT WESTERN MAINE /OXFORD COUNTY/. WILL MONITOR TO SEE HOW QUICKLY THE THUNDERSTORMS DISSIPATE WITH THE SUNSET. IF ANY CONVECTION REMAINS...MAY KEEP A MIN CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM GOING IN THE ZONES FOR EARLY TONIGHT. CWF... PREVIOUS FORECAST LOOKS GOOD...EXCEPT WILL PLAY UP THE DENSE FOG AND POOR VISIBILITY MORE TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. WINDS/SEAS WILL REMAIN WELL BELOW SCA CRITERIA THROUGH MONDAY. PRELIM WRKZFP/WRKCWF AVBL IN AWIPS. .GYX... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. SJC
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:57 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 Minnesota, August 4 to 8, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, August 4 to 5, 2001
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, August 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: 5263360.