Lightning, Hartford
- When
- June 6, 12:30 AM EST
- Where
- Hartford County, Manchester
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 41.819, -72.572 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Connecticut, June 6, 2002
Lightning struck a tree next to a house in Manchester, traveling through the rear of the house and ending up in the garage. It sparked a small fire, which left several beams in the garage charred, but damage was minor.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- 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 BOX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a tree next to a house in Manchester, traveling through the rear of the house and ending up in the garage. It sparked a small fire, which left several beams in the garage charred, but damage was minor.
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 Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 9:15 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 9:15 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1015 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 ACTIVE WX NITE...MOST OF WHICH TO W & NW. ISOLD SVR TRW MOVG E BUT EXPECT CELLS TO DMNSH IN INTSTY AS THEY STUMBLE EWRD OVRNITE. PREV ZNS IN GOOD SHAPE NO SIG CHGS. EARLIER... FIRST BATCH OF RNFL MOVD OFF CCOD CST THIS MRNG...THEN ANOTHER SML AREA DISSIPATED AS IT MOVD ACRS ERLY THIS AFTN. CLDS HV HELD TOUGH ACRS MOST OF RGN...THO SOME BREAKS HV SHOWN UP ACRS WRN AREAS AND JUST OFF THE CST OF CAPE ANN AND LI. MORE BREAKS SEEN OVR E CNTRL NY...WTH ANOTHER AREA MOVG INTO SW CT. TEMPS HV POPPED UP TO LWR 70S ACRS SW NH...BUT UP TO LWR 80S AT KAQW WTH BREAKS IN CLDS. DEWPTS JUST DOWNSTREAM IN UPR 60S TO LWR 70S. SHORT TERM...STILL MONITORING FOR POSS TSTM ACTIVITY THIS AFTN/EVE BUT XCPT MAIN ACTION WTH SLO MOVG FNT PROGRESSING ACRS NEW ENG TNGT/THU. ETA/AVN IN DECENT AGREEMENT ERLY...THEN ETA SEEMS TO MOV FNT THRU A BIT TOO QUICKLY CONSIDERING FNT IS BCMG PARALLEL TO UPR FLOW ACRS RGN. WL LEAN TWD AVN SOLN THIS FCST. THIS MEANS DELAY IN MOVG PCPN THRU RGN...AND SOME AREAS COULD RECEIVE HVY DOWNPOURS AND POSS LOCALIZED FLOODING ESP TNGT INTO ERLY THU S OF MASS PIKE. WL KEEP CAT POPS GOING ACRS CWA TNGT...AND MOST OF CWA THU MRNG. BOTH ETA/AVN SHOW DVLPMNT OF SECOND LOW ON FNT SCOOTING ALNG S CST OF LI AND NEW ENG THU MRNG. PLAN ON KEEPING POPS UP TO AT LEAST LKLY THRU AFTN. ONCE THIS LOW...ALNG WTH H5 L/W TROF...MOV ERD... PCPN FINALLY ENDS ACRS SRN SXNS BUT WL KEEP LKLY GOING FOR S CST/CCOD AND ISS ERLY THU NIGHT. HIGH PRES BLDS SE FM QUEBEC AND NRN NEW ENG LATE THU NIGHT-FRI...DRYING THE RGN OUT. LONG TERM...HIGH PRES WL ELONGATE FM NOVA SCOTIA TO NJ/ERN PA BY 12Z SAT...THEN SLOLY MOV OFF SRN NEW ENG CST SUN. WK CFNT RMNS N OF RGN SUN...THEN DISSIPATES. ANOTHER HIGH RDG BLDS E FM QUEBEC TO MID ATLC CST SUN NIGHT/MON AS H5 RDG BLDS OVR GRT LKS. HIGH WL SLOLY PUSH OFF CST MON WHILE DVLPD SFC LOW PRES AND ASSOCD CUTOFF H5 LOW DVLP OVR CNTRL U.S. THIS FEATURE WL SLOLY MOV E...AND WL NOT MNTN CHC POPS IN ZNS NXT WED...WHICH IS SLOWER THAN PREV XTNDD FCST INDICATED. MARINE: MARGINAL LEFTOVR SCA FOR ALL OUTER WATERS BUT PROB CAN COME DOWN THIS EVENING FOR THE E MA OUTER WATERS WITH LEFTOVR SEAS S COAST. THEN WHEN TO RESURRECT THE SCA. PROB NOT TIL FRI MORNING BUT UNCERTAIN ON WHOLE WIND FIELD DEVELOPS. IN THE BOS HARBOR AND NARR BAY AREA...NO SCA UNTIL MAY B REQ FRI AM. THE DEAL...WAA SW FLOW EASES DURING THE NIGHT. INITIAL BRF SHOT OF CAA WIND THURSDAY MIDDAY...WELL DEPICTED BY ETA WIND PROFILE...THEN BETTER SHOT BROADER AREA OF STRONGER AND MORE PERSISTENT NE SCA WIND CRITERIA FRIDAY MORNING...BOTH ON ETA/AVN WITH YDYS EC HINTING ALSO. DID MENTION GALE GUSTS SRN OUTER WATERS...ITS REC SEASON AND UNLESS THIS WIND FIELD FADES...FRI MORNING CUD BE RATHER NASTY FOR SUMMER SMALL CRAFT REC COMMUNITY PVC-ACK-BID SEWD. .BOX... CT...NONE. MA...NONE. NH...NONE. RI...NONE. MARINE...SCA ALL CSTL WATERS. EVT/DRAG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:27 PM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
MAZ002-003-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 927 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 AT 924 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONROE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH ADAMS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LEYDEN AND COLRAIN AROUND 945 PM BERNARDSTON AROUND 950 PM GILL AROUND 955 PM STRAUSS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:47 PM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
MAZ002-NHZ011-060215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 947 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 AT 944 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL 10 MILES WEST OF HINSDALE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRATTLEBORO...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HINSDALE AROUND 955 PM WINCHESTER AROUND 1000 PM RICHMOND AROUND 1005 PM FITZWILLIAM AND TROY AROUND 1010 PM STRAUSS
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:29 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
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, June 6, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, June 6, 2002
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, June 6 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, June 6, 2002
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 6, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 6, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, June 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, June 6, 2002
More
Every storm in Connecticut in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Connecticut, June 2002
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: 5297159.