Lightning, Carroll
- When
- May 28, 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Carroll County, Tuftonboro
- Property damage
- $70,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.874, -71.203 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, May 28, 2001
Lightning sparked a fire that damaged the roof and finished attic, and electrical and phone systems of a home in Tuftonboro. The remainder of the home sustained smoke and water damage.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $70,000
- 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 damaged the roof and finished attic, and electrical and phone systems of a home in Tuftonboro. The remainder of the home sustained smoke and water damage.
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 28, 1:40 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:40 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 240 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001 WK CF AND ASSOCIATED UPR TROF TO MV THRU FA TNGT WITH SHWRS/TSTMS...MOSTLY DURING THE EVE. SOME DRYING LATER BUT LOW LVL RH REMAINS HIGH HENCE EXPCT MORE FOG TO DVLP/CONTINUE. ON TUE A SECOND CF DROPS SE INTO FA BUT DYNAMICS ARE WK AND RH IS LACKING. WORTH A CHANCE OF AFTN SHWRS/TSTMS AS AIR IS MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. UPPER CLOSED LOW DIGS SE ACROSS FA TUE NIGHT AND WED. EXPCT SCATTERED SHWRS WITH THIS DEEP BUT RATHER DRY SYSTEM. EXPCT THE BULK OF THE ACTIVITY DURING WED AFTN AS STEEPENING LAPSE RATES INCREASE CONVECTION. NGM/AVN MOS TEMPS WAY APART WED AFTN. WILL LEAN TWD THE WARMER NGM TEMPS. FCSTID = 3 .GYX... ME...NONE. NH...SVR TSTM WATCH TIL 6PM ROCKINGHAM CO.
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:09 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Dense Fog in Florida, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in New York, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 28, 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: 5244990.