Lightning, York
- When
- June 6, 10:55 PM EST
- Where
- York County, Berwick
- Property damage
- $9,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.429, -70.670 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Maine, June 6, 2002
Lightning struck a home in Berwick just before midnight causing an estimated $9000 in damage.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $9,000
- 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 GYX wrote it up.
Lightning struck a home in Berwick just before midnight causing an estimated $9000 in damage.
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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 7:30 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 7:30 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 830 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002 .DISC...PRECIP HAS DRIED UP FOR THE MOMENT AS SUM DRIER AIR HAS PUSHED ESE INTO FA IN ADVNCE OF 1021MB SFC HI CNTRD OVR ESTRN GREAT LKES. HOWEVR...STIL XPC ANOTHER NRTHWRD SURGE OF MOISTURE OVRNGHT AHD OF SFC LO OVR MARYLAND THAT IS PROGGED TO TRACK ENE ALONG STALLED BAROCLINIC ZNE. 18Z AVN IS EVEN MOR AGGRESSIVE THAN 12Z RUN BRINGING QPF OVRNGHT TO ENTIRE FA. BELIEVE AVN IS OVRDONE AND HAV LEANED MOR TWDS A COMPROMISE SOLUTION BETWEEN THE MUCH DRIER 18Z ETA AND AVN SOLUTIONS. I NOW XPC NIL QPF FROM NH001/002 ESTWRD ACRSS ME007>009/013/14 WTH PRECIP REMOVED IN UPDATE. FOR NH003/004 AND ME012/020>022/025>028 ONLY CHC POP FOR LIGHT PRECIP AFTR MIDNIGHT. FOR NH005/006/ME019/024 -RA LIKELY OVRNGHT. AND FOR AREAS S OF THAT.. OCNL RA SINCE I XPC SUM OF THE HVR PRECIP TO BRIEFLY BRUSH THIS AREA LATER TNGHT. ALSO BUMPED UP MINS A FEW DEGREES OVR FAR STHRN SECTIONS. .CSTAL WTRS...NIL SIGNIF CHNGES TO PREV PKGE. WRKZFP/CWF AVBL ON A .GYX... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. ES
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:56 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 Maine in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, 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: 5305377.