High Wind, Calvert
- When
- July 13, 1:30 AM EST to 3:00 AM EST
- Where
- Calvert forecast zone
- Property damage
- $60,000
- Coordinates
- 38.535, -76.531 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Maryland, July 13, 1996
High winds associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha caused scattered (but widespread) damage along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert Co. A total of 5 homes sustained damage from fallen trees/large limbs: two in Drum Point, and three more in Chesapeake Beach.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $60,000
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
High winds associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha caused scattered (but widespread) damage along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert Co. A total of 5 homes sustained damage from fallen trees/large limbs: two in Drum Point, and three more in Chesapeake Beach. Most of the fallen trees were in the eastern half of the county. The combination of rain, gusty winds, and isolated severe weather left approximately 45,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric customers without electricity on the western shore (including the Baltimore metropolitan area and Anne Arundel Co) during the height of the storm.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Colorado, July 13, 1996
- Tropical Storm in New Jersey, July 13, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Hampshire, July 13, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 13, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Wyoming, July 13, 1996
- Tornado in Colorado, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Wyoming, July 13, 1996
- Tornado in Maryland, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Colorado, July 13, 1996
More
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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: 5568049.