Lightning, Sullivan
- When
- June 5, 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Sullivan County, Washington
- Property damage
- $11,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.361, -72.222 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, June 5, 2002
Lightning struck the tower of the Washington Town Hall causing and estimated $11,000 in damage to the tower and equipment inside the building.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $11,000
- 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 the tower of the Washington Town Hall causing and estimated $11,000 in damage to the tower and equipment inside the building.
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 5, 7:50 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 7:50 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
850 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002
QUICK UPDT TO CLEAN UP 1ST PRD WRDG AND REMOVE MENTION OF GUSTY WINDS
ASSOC WTH TRW IN SRN NH. EXPCT SVR TRW MVG THRU ERN NY AND WRN NEW
ENG TO DIMNSH IN INTSTY AND GNRLLY STAY S OF THE FA AS THEY CONT EWRD
THRU MDNGT.
OFFSHR...LEANING TWRD DROPPING SCA AS BOTH SEAS AND WNDS BLO
CRITERIA...BUT WILL CHECK NEXT SET OF OBS BFR MAKING FINAL DCSN.
GYX...ME...SCA.
NH...SCA.
EJSThe radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:59 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Vermont, June 5, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Pennsylvania, June 5 to 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, June 5, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, June 5, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 5, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 5, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 5, 2002
- Tornado in Florida, June 5, 2002
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 5, 2002
- Tornado in Connecticut, June 5, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 5, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 5, 2002
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, 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: 5305378.