Lightning, Ocean
- When
- July 9, 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ocean County, Holiday City
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.866, -74.250 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 9, 2002
Lightning strikes knocked out power to 4,900 Conectiv Power Delivery customers in Berkeley Township including the Silver Ridge Park and Holiday City adult communities.
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
- None recorded
- 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 PHI wrote it up.
Lightning strikes knocked out power to 4,900 Conectiv Power Delivery customers in Berkeley Township including the Silver Ridge Park and Holiday City adult communities.
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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 9:25 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 9:25 PM EST, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1025 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2002 DISC: SOME WORDING CHANGES TO SHOW END OF PCPN. OTHERWISE VRY STRONG TSTMS ACROSS ERN DEL INTO SNJ WITH POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. TSMS HAVE HISTORY OF TREES/WIRES DOWN. SEE YA AT 300 AM.... S.PHI... DE...NONE. MD...NONE. NJ...NONE. PA...NONE. MARINE...SCA NJ/DE COASTS. EBERWINE ****************************************************************
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:58 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 California, July 9 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 9, 2002
- Wildfire in Oregon, July 9 to 26, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in North Dakota, July 9 to 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, July 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in West Virginia, July 9 to 10, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 9, 2002
- Tornado in Indiana, July 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 9, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 9, 2002
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, 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: 5308560.