Lightning, Putnam
- When
- June 17, 4:30 AM EST
- Where
- Putnam County, Mahopac Falls
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 41.427, -73.749 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New York, June 17, 2001
In Putnam County, lightning struck a home that ignited a fire around 5:30 AM EDT Sunday morning. The house suffered considerable damage, but no injuries were reported.
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.
In Putnam County, lightning struck a home that ignited a fire around 5:30 AM EDT Sunday morning. The house suffered considerable damage, but no injuries were reported.
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 17, 2:21 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:21 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 321 AM EDT SUN JUN 17 2001 OVERALL...WE PREFER THE AVN AGAIN THIS MRNG. ALTHO DONT AGREE WITH THE AVN QPF NUMBRS...WE LIKE THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE PCPN. PRETTY CLOSE TO WHATS HAPPENG ATTM. LUKD AT THE SUNY STNYBRK AND PENN STATE MM5 AND NEITHER OF THEM SHOWG WHAT WAS CURRENTLY HAPPENG WITH THE QPF INLND...THUS HAD TO DISCOUNT MM5/S. WE THINK THE NGM TOO FAST...ETA TOO SLO WITH THE MVMT OF THE FORMER TS ALLISON. THE AVN IS A BLEND OF THE TWO AND IS PREFERD. WITH THAT IN MIND...WL GO CATEGORICAL WITH PCPN TDY. PCPN SHUD MOV INTO METRO AREA BTWN 06 AND 09Z. CURRENTLY RADAR SHOWG A BATCH OF TSTMS OFF THE CNTL NJ CST AND HEADD RIGHT FOR THE METRO AREA. ANOTHER BATCH HAS SPRUNG UP S OF STATEN ISLND AND SHUD MOV INTO EWR BEFORE ZFP IS ISSUED. THINKG THE NGM IS TOO DRY AND 1ST PD TEMPS TOO HI...THUS WL TREND TWDS THE MAV/S ESP 1ST PD. FWC TEMPS LUK OK PDS 2 THRU 4. CURRENTLY THE 88D SHOWG A NICE SPIRAL MOVG NWD INTO SRN DELAWARE. AL MDLS SHOW IT MOVG NEWD BUT AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIOND LIKE THE AVN TIMG. ON THE MARINE...WL KEEP THE SCA UP FOR RUFF SEAS...EVEN THO SEAS ARE STILL UNDER SCA...THEY SHUD INCRS LATR THIS MRNG AND DURG THE DAY TDY. ON THE UP SIDE...NO DENSE FG TNT. FIRST CUT OF WRKZFP IN AWIPS NOW. NO MAJOR CHGS PLANND TO XTNDD ATTM. WL ADD TO FFA TO ALSO INCLUDE NYZ068-071-070-CTZ005-009. WL LEAVE IT UP TIL 16Zm TDY. .OKX... CT...FFA 330AM - NOON SUN...CTZ005-009. NJ...FFA MIDNIGHT-NOON SUN...NJZ002>006-011. NY...FFA MIDNIGHT-NOON SUN...NYZ067-071. MARINE...SCA FOR ROUGH SEAS OCEAN WTRS...ANZ350-353-355. WOOLDRIDGE
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:32 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 York in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, 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: 5251312.