Lightning, Rota
- When
- June 27, 3:00 PM SST to 4:00 PM SST
- Where
- Rota County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $12,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Lightning Strike in Guam, June 27, 2003
A thunderstorm moved across the island of Rota during the late afternoon around 1500. Lightning from the storm damaged the phone system on the island, cutting the island off from the rest of the world.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $12,000
- 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 GUA wrote it up.
A thunderstorm moved across the island of Rota during the late afternoon around 1500. Lightning from the storm damaged the phone system on the island, cutting the island off from the rest of the world.
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 GUA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 3:46 AM SST, 11 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:46 AM SST, 11 hours 14 minutes before
AREA SYNOPTIC DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU 1 AM GUAM LST SAT JUN 28 2003 WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC BETWEEN EQUATOR AND 25N FROM 130E TO 180. AN UPPER-LEVEL LOW IS CENTERED NEAR 17N140E. DIVERGENT UPPER-LEVEL WINDS SOUTH OF THE LOW COMBINED WITH CONVERGENT TRADE WINDS ARE GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU...YAP STATE TO WEST OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS... WITHIN 200 MILES OF A LINE FROM 7N130E TO 10N139E TO 15N143E. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE SOUTH OF CHUUK IS PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN 100 MILES OF A LINE FROM 6N145E OVER CHUUK AND POHNPEI TO END AT 5N164E...JUST EAST OF KOSRAE. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IS GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR AND SOUTHEAST OF MAJURO BETWEEN 2N AND 8N FROM 171E TO 179E.
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
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 27, 2003
- Flooding in Iowa, June 27 to 30, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 27, 2003
- Heavy Rain in Louisiana, June 27, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, June 27, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 27, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maine, June 27, 2003
More
Every storm in Guam in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Guam, June 2003
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: 5360420.