Lightning, Hernando
- When
- July 22, 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hernando County, Brooksville
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 28.556, -82.468 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning started a business on fire.
Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 2002
1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $20,000
- 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 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 22, 8:45 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 8:45 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 945 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2002 CURRENTLY...ANOTHER ACTIVE MORNING OVER THE NE GULF WITH WIDESPREAD CONVECTION...WHICH IS JUST SAGGING INTO LEVY COUNTY. IL-DEFINED SFC RIDGE AXIS SEEMS TO HAVE MOVED TEMPORARILY A LITTLE NORTH INTO NCENT FL...ALLOWING FOR SE LOW LEVEL FLOW ACROSS THE FA THIS MORNING. 12Z SOUNDING A LITTLE LESS MOIST AND UNSTABLE FROM YESTERDAY WITH PW JUST UNDER 1.9 INCHES...AND MODIFIED CAPE OF 3000 J/KG. WITH LOW LEVEL SE FLOW...WINDS VEER FROM SE TO W SFC TO 650 MB...BUT SPEEDS ARE LIGHT. --REST OF TODAY-- WITH LARGE AREA OF CONVECTION APPROACHING THE NE FA...MAY NEED TO BUMP POPS UP TO CATEGORICAL...ESPECIALLY GIVEN TREND OF WIDESPREAD RAINFALL IN THIS REGION LAST FEW DAYS. VEERING WIND PROFILE THIS MORNING MAY ALSO PROVIDE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR SPOUT FORMATION THROUGH THE MORNING...BEFORE FLOW VEERS AROUND TO DEEPER SW. OTHER THAN POSSIBLY RAISING POPS OVER THE N FA...REST OF FCST LOOKS ON TRACK. --MARINE-- SOME COSMETIC CLEAN UP...OTHERWISE FCST LOOKS FINE. MAY ADD MENTION OF HIGHER WINDS AND SEAS WITH TSTMS OVER THE NORTHERN WATERS. .TBW...NONE. MORALES
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:00 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 Maryland, July 22 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, July 22, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 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: 5303299.