Lightning, San Juan and Vicinity
- When
- October 10, 3:00 PM AST to 3:15 PM AST
- Where
- San Juan and Vicinity County, Trujillo Alto
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Lightning Strike in Puerto Rico, October 10, 2001
Lightning struck a tree, which fell over electric wires near road 175 in Trujillo Alto.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 SJU wrote it up.
Lightning struck a tree, which fell over electric wires near road 175 in Trujillo Alto.
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 Flash Flooding in Texas, October 10 to 13, 2001
- Tornado in Missouri, October 10, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, October 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, October 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, October 10, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, October 10 to 11, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, October 10, 2001
- Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, October 10, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Puerto Rico, October 10, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, October 10, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, October 10 to 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, October 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, October 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5271654.