High Wind in West Virginia, March 31, 1997

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.

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.

• Winter Storm in Utah, March 31, 19973 deaths · 60 injured · $2.0 million · 12 events
• Coastal Flood in New York, March 31, 19971 death · 11 events
• Coastal Flood in Connecticut, March 31, 19971 death · 3 events
• Winter Storm in New York, March 31, 1997$7.8 million · 18 events
• Strong Wind in Virginia, March 31, 19971 injured · $500,000 · 23 events
• Winter Storm in Vermont, March 31, 1997$1.5 million · 2 events
• Winter Storm in Massachusetts, March 31, 1997$1.0 million · 1 event
• Winter Storm in Connecticut, March 31, 1997$1.0 million · 1 event
• Strong Wind in Maryland, March 31, 1997$100,000 · 14 events
• Winter Storm in Vermont, March 31, 1997$95,000 · 3 events
• Heavy Snow and High Wind in Massachusetts, March 31, 199763 kt wind · 47 events
• Strong Wind in West Virginia, March 31, 1997$53,000 · 8 events

Every storm in West Virginia in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, March 1997

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: 5594417.