Lightning, Rockingham
- When
- May 27, 4:00 AM EST to 5:00 AM EST
- Where
- Rockingham County, Danville
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 42.985, -71.089 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, May 27, 2001
Lightning sparked a fire that destroyed a mobile home in the town of Danville. No one was home at the time of the blaze.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- 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 sparked a fire that destroyed a mobile home in the town of Danville. No one was home at the time of the blaze.
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 May 27, 1:42 AM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:42 AM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 242 AM EDT SUN MAY 27 2001 WRKZFP AVBL. THANX FOR CALL KCAR...WE IN AGREEMENT. OMEGA BLOCK BREAKDOWN CONTS TO BE SLO...AND TIMNG STILL A PROB. OCNL RAIN OR SHWRS OVR NH WILL LKLY INCH ITS WAY E INTO WRN ME TDY WITH CHNCY AFTN POPS IN ZNS ABUTTNG KCAR FA. THEN PCPN OVR FA INTO TUE. FCSTID = 5 .GYX... ME...NONE. NH...NONE.
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
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado in New Jersey, May 27, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 27, 2001
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, May 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: 5244989.