High Wind, Delaware
- When
- January 18, 4:15 PM EST to 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Delaware forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.917, -75.399 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Pennsylvania, January 18, 1999
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Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- 1
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
Damaging wind gusts accompanied a cold front as it moved through Delaware County between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. EST on the 18th. Winds gusted to around 55 mph and knocked down numerous limbs and wires as well as several trees in the county. One person was injured in Radnor as a tree limb broke through the vehicle's window. Service was suspended on the Marcus Hook Regional Rail Line. This was part of a power outage that affected about 20 AMTRAK, SEPTA and New Jersey Transit trains on the AMTRAK Northeast Corridor rail lines between 520 p.m. and 730 p.m. EST. Power was restored between Philadelphia and Wilmington at about 635 p.m. EST and the rest came back on line by 730 pm. EST. PECO Energy reported about 1,000 homes and businesses lost power in the county. All power was restored by the morning of the 19th. The wind gusted to 55 mph at Philadelphia International Airport at 439 p.m. EST.
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
- 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 Pennsylvania in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, 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: 5685331.