Lightning, Surry
- When
- June 24, 1:58 PM EST
- Where
- Surry County, 2 mi NW of Mt Airy
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.415, -80.687 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 24, 2001
A twelve year old boy was struck and injured by lightning at a ball field 2 miles northwest of Mount Airy. The boy was in the hospital for two weeks before being released.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- 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 RNK wrote it up.
A twelve year old boy was struck and injured by lightning at a ball field 2 miles northwest of Mount Airy. The boy was in the hospital for two weeks before being released.
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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 9:20 AM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:20 AM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 1020 AM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001 SFC FNT IS FINALLY WELL EAST OF THE FA. STILL PLENTY OF LL MOISTURE REMAINING ACROSS THE FA PER RNK SOUNDING. STRONG SUBSIDENCE INVERSION & CAP ARND 625 MBS...BUT AIRMASS WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE BELOW THE CAP. COLD POOL AT 700 MBS IS OVER SRN/MID APPLNS. MODELS SHOW LAPSE RATES >7.0 C/KM TODAY. THERE SHOULD BE A LOT OF CU DEVELOPMENT THIS AFT...SPREADING OUT AT THE CAP LVL OF 13K...SO EITHER P SUNNY OR M CLDY. QUESTION IS WHETHER THERE WILL BE MUCH SHRA ACTIVITY. WILL RAISE THE MTN ZONES HIGHER THAN SLIGHT CHANCE AT LEAST...MAY ADJUST OTHER ZONES SOME AS WELL. PLAN ON CHANGING TSTM WORDING TO SLIGHT CHC ALL ZONES. MAX TEMP FCST LOOKS GOOD- ONLY SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS IF ANY TO THEM. .RNK... NC...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE. JJ
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:57 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
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Maine, June 24 to 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in Idaho, June 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, June 24, 2001
- Flood in New York, June 24, 2001
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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: 5272394.