High Wind, New Castle
- When
- January 18, 4:10 PM EST to 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- New Castle forecast zone, Countywide
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.578, -75.639 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind and Waterspout in Delaware, January 18, 1999
m. EST on the 18th.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- 2
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.
Damaging wind gusts accompanied a cold front and rain showers as they moved through New Castle County a little after 4 p.m. EST on the 18th. A waterspout formed in the Delaware River for about one minute near Fox Point State Park. It dissipated before it reached the New Jersey side. The wind gusted to 61mph at the New Castle County Airport at 419 p.m. EST. A sign for the airport was knocked down and a trailer was blown over on U.S. Route 13 near the airport. Elsewhere, the high winds blew the roof off a three story building within Wilmington. The chimney fell and damaged the neighboring building. Residents of the former building could not spend the night there because of the structural damage. Trees were uprooted in Elsmere. About 4,000 Connectiv customers lost power because of the high winds in Delaware and Maryland. All power was restored by the morning of the 19th.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind, 1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
Waterspout, New Castle
- When
- January 18, 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- New Castle County, 1 mi E of Bellefonte
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.578, -75.639 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Washington, January 18, 1999
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, January 18, 1999
- High Wind in New Jersey, January 18 to 19, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Waterspout in Maryland, January 18, 1999
- High Wind in New Jersey, January 18, 1999
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, January 18, 1999
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, January 18, 1999
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in Massachusetts, January 18, 1999
- High Wind in West Virginia, January 18, 1999
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, January 18, 1999
- Winter Weather in Maine, January 18 to 19, 1999
- Hail in Alabama, January 18, 1999
More
Every storm in Delaware in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Delaware, January 1999
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: 5685310, 5685309.