Lightning, Monmouth
- When
- May 27, 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Monmouth County, Hazlet
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.288, -74.158 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning struck and ignited a house fire in Hazlet. The elderly couple who owned the house were rescued, but suffered smoke inhalation.
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The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
Lightning struck and ignited a house fire in Hazlet. The elderly couple who owned the house were rescued, but suffered smoke inhalation.
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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 27, 2:54 PM EST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 354 PM EDT SUN MAY 27 2001 JUST ABOUT AS ADVERTISED...MARINE LAYER LEFT MOST OF AREA WITH BATCH OF RN THAT COVERED AREA YDA INTO ERLY TDA. H5 CLSD LO IS MOVG TWD THE NE AND WL MOV SLOWLY ACRS NY STA. MDLS INDICATE THAT THIS FEATURE WL WEAKEN AS IT DOES SO. MEANWHILE...S/W TROF THAT BROUGHT SOME SVR WX TO MDWEST YDA IS NOW IN OUR NECK OF THE WOODS. S/S HELPED TEMPS TO WARM THIS AFTN MOST AREAS AND PREVIOUS RN HAS HELPED ADD DWPTS TO AREA THUS MAKING AREA PRIME FOR TRW DVLPMNT AND SVR TRW STILL A GD PSBLTY. THIS FEATURE MOVS ON TNGT AND A BREAK SETS IN AS UP LO MOVS ACRS NY STA ON MON. MDLS HINT THAT ALL MSTR SWEPT OUT AND THUS WUD XPCT NOTHING ON THE HOLIDAY. HOWEVER...WL CONT A CHC FOR LT DAY AND ERLY NGT TIME RW/TRW. MON NGT. AFTER THAT MDLS SUGGEST THAT MAIN H5 UP LO PULLS INTO CANADA WITH A WEAKER EXTENSION TRYING TO DROP DOWN TWD NY STA. HAVE OPTED TO LEAVE PRECIP OUT OF FCST TUE ALL ZNS...THO THIS SYS CUD TRIGGER SOMETHING UP ACRS NRN ZNS. AFTER THAT FAIR WX THRU MIDWK UNTIL NXT SYS ARND FRI BRNGS CHC PRECIP. ON THE MARINE...NOTHING UP. WWA 297 AND 298 CONT FOR CWA--EXPIRATION TIME 7PM. .PHI...NONE. JWH
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
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