Lightning, Bergen
- When
- June 17, 2:00 AM EST
- Where
- Bergen County, Hillsdale
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.960, -74.074 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Jersey, June 17, 2001
Around 3 am EDT, a house in Hillsdale was struck by lightning. The Woodcliff Lake Fire Department took around 30 minutes to gain control of this fire.
Where it happened
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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.
Around 3 am EDT, a house in Hillsdale was struck by lightning. The Woodcliff Lake Fire Department took around 30 minutes to gain control of this fire. Damage occurred to the roof and to the attached garage. Cost estimates of the property damage were unknown.
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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 6:49 PM EST, 7 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:49 PM EST, 7 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 749 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 ZFP/RDF: UPDTD ZFP A TAD ERLY TNGT TO REFLECT CRNT CONDITIONS. RA FOCUS HAS BEEN WELL W OF CWA THIS EVNG W/ ONLY A FEW SCT SHRAS ACRS WRN CWA THRU 2340Z. XPCT THAT THE HVIR RAFL WL BE WORKING FRTHR EWD DURG THE LTR PTNS OF THE EVNG AND OVRNGT...MAY GET A FEW POP-UP SHRAS ELSEWHERE. SO...WL TONE DOWN POPS INTO SCT (W) OR WDLY SCT (E) THRU MIDNIGHT...THEN GO CAT W AND LKLY E. ALSO HV ADJUSTED TEMPS FOR TNGT AS TDS ARE IN THE L-M70S CWA-WIDE AND DON'T XPCT TOO MANY PLACES TO DROP BLO 70F. WRKZFP/WRKRDF AVBL FOR REQ...FINALS GONE SHORTLY. UPDTD FFSOKX TO FOLLOW BY 0015Z OR SO. CWF: ONLY MINOR CHGS TO PRVS PCKG...MNLY TO MAKE SIMLR CHGS TO SGFNT WX TNGT. CWFNYC WIBIS BY 0015Z. .OKX... CT...NONE. NJ...FFA MIDNIGHT-NOON SUN...NJZ002>006-011. NY...FFA MIDNIGHT-NOON SUN...NYZ067-069. MARINE...SCA FOR ROUGH S EAS OCEAN WTRS...ANZ350-353-355. REYNOLDS
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:59 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 Illinois, June 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, June 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Tornado in Maine, June 17, 2001
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, June 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: 5251263.