High Wind, Windsor
- When
- September 16, 10:30 PM EST to September 17, 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Windsor forecast zone
- Measured
- 34 kt (39 mph)
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind in Vermont, September 16 to 17, 1999
The remnants of Tropical Storm Floyd moved into southern New England Thursday night (9/16/99) and then across eastern New England Friday, September 17th. Strong winds combined with saturated soils from heavy rain resulted in many trees and power lines being blown down with approximately 2,750 people without power countywide.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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 BTV wrote it up.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Floyd moved into southern New England Thursday night (9/16/99) and then across eastern New England Friday, September 17th. Strong winds combined with saturated soils from heavy rain resulted in many trees and power lines being blown down with approximately 2,750 people without power countywide. Rochester had many trees blown down with schools closed Friday. In Springfield the strongest wind was 34 knots (39 mph). Rainfall across the county associated with the remnants of Floyd was around 6 inches but locally higher in the mountains.
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
- Hurricane and Tropical Storm in New Jersey, September 16 to 23, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Coastal Flood in Pennsylvania, September 16 to 17, 1999
- Flash Flooding in New Jersey, September 16 to 17, 1999
- Hurricane and Flash Flooding in Delaware, September 16 to 17, 1999
- Flash Flooding and High Wind in New York, September 16 to 17, 1999
- Flash Flooding in New York, September 16 to 18, 1999
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, September 16, 1999
- Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in Maryland, September 16, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Connecticut, September 16 to 18, 1999
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Virginia, September 16, 1999
- High Wind in Vermont, September 16 to 17, 1999
- Flash Flooding and High Wind in Maryland, September 16 to 18, 1999
More
Every storm in Vermont in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, September 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: 5721380.