Lightning, Caledonia
- When
- June 28, 4:30 AM EST
- Where
- Caledonia County, Walden
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.465, -72.102 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Vermont, June 28, 2002
A cold front moved slowly through the area on the 28th of June. Early morning thunderstorms in the Walden area resulted in lightning strikes with power outages to about 1200 customers.
Where it happened
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- Wind
- Hail
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 BTV wrote it up.
A cold front moved slowly through the area on the 28th of June. Early morning thunderstorms in the Walden area resulted in lightning strikes with power outages to about 1200 customers.
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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 12:38 AM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 12:38 AM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 138 AM EDT FRI JUN 28 2002 ...GRT WX WEEKEND WITH A PSBL HOLIDAY HEAT WAVE... RECAP: SHRA/TSRA FIRED UP ON CUE TDY WITH A MESO-SCALE BNDRY SET UP ACRS ADRNDKS-N KBTV-LAMOILLE RVR VLY. KCXX RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 1.5-3 INCHES IN PART OF BASIN WITH LOCALIZED 4 INCH TOTAL (INCLDG WED) BUT APPARENTLY JUST SHY OF FLDG. BIG PIX: TROF AXIS WL PASS E OF FA TDY/SAT WITH CENTRAL PLAINS HEAT RIDGE BUILDING INTO MS RVR VLY/GRT LAKES AND EVENTUALLY INTO THE NE FOR PSBL HOLIDAY HEAT WAVE. CRNT: THE MAIN S/W WITHIN THE TROF AXIS WAS MVG ACRS ONTARIO AND WL MV INTO FA BY 12Z. SFC FNT MVG ACRS NY FA ATTM WITH -SHRA/-TSRA ACTVTY AHD OF FNT AND SHLD BE E OF FA BY 12Z. ADDTNL QPF XPCTD <INCH...THEREFORE FLD WATCH WL BE CXLD WITH THIS PKG. SHORT TERM: ULVL TROF AND S/W MVG ACRS FA THRU 18-20Z WITH SOME DIURNAL HEATING AND COOL POOL ALOFT WL BRG ABT CHC -SHRA...ESP ADRNDKS E. TMPS WL BE A FEW DEGS COOLER AND TDD SLOWLY BACKING OFF TDY. SFC RDG MVG INTO WRN NY BY 12Z SAT WL BRG CLRG SKIES/LGT WNDS/ COOLER TMPS/LWR TDD. ALSO...XPCT SOME FOG AS ABUNDANT SFC MOISTURE AVBL FM RECENT RAINS. STG S/W DIVING DUE S FM HUDSON BAY INTO ULVL TROF LATE TDY/FRI NGT WL SLOW DEPARTURE OF TROF AND WARM-UP A BIT...THUS SAT WL NOT BE AS WRM AS CRNT FCST BUT STL A SUNNY SUMMER DAY. MID TERM: ULVL TROF EXITS WITH SFC HIGH SLOWLY MVG S...THUS SUNNY AND WARMER TMPS SUNDAY BUT W FLOW WL KEEP MUGGIER TDD AT BAY. HEAT RDG SLGLTY BEING DAMPENED BY CNDN S/W ACTVTY WITH SOME MINOR S/W MVG WITHIN FLOW. ONTARIO/QUEBEC AND FA STL ON E SIDE OF ULVL RDG...THUS NW ULVL FLOW. EVIDENCE STL EXISTS THAT TDD POOLING IN THE 60S TO 70F STL OCCURRING ALG RDG AXIS AND SPILLING OVR WITH A WEAK SFC BNDRY (WRM FNT) AND S/W MVG ACRS ONTARIO/QUEBEC AND PSBLY FA SUN NGT. THE ABV PSBL WAVE MVS THRU WITH A PORTION OF ULVL RDG AXIS ACRS FA FOR A HOT/MUGGY MONDAY (ARD 90F). LONGER TERM: ULVL RDG BCMS DAMPENED TUES BY CENT CNDN TROF WITH A PSBL SFC TROF MVG INTO FA...SO WL KEEP CHC -SHRA/-TSRA TUES AFTN WITH TMPS U80S/90F. THEREAFTER...HEAT RDG APPEARS TO BUILD AND MV INTO GRT LAKES AND EVENTUALLY NE BY LATE NXT WEEK. CRNTLY...THERES A CHC -SHRA/-TSRA WED AND THU AFTN IN FCST. FOR SVRL DFRNT REASONS (DEPENDING ON MDL CHOICE) I CAN SEE WED AFTN/EVE BUT WL BE MORE OPTIMISTIC AND PUSH FOR HEAT RDG TO TAKE CONTROL AND PSBLY CAP ACTVTY ON THE 4TH. THUS TEMPS U80S/90F WED AND ABV 90F THU. .BTV...NONE. SLW
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:29 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
- Heat in Michigan, June 28, 2002
- Rip Current in Alabama, June 28, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, June 28, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Montana, June 28, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 28, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Montana, June 28, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 28 to 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, 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: 5306474.