High Wind, Inland Sussex
- When
- January 4, 4:00 PM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Inland Sussex forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 38.683, -75.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Delaware, January 4, 2000
A strong cold front that moved through Delaware late in the day produced strong wind gusts to around 45 mph. The winds tore off some shingles from the 270-year-old Lewes Chamber of Commerce (known as the Fisher-Martin House) Building.
Where it happened
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The toll
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
A strong cold front that moved through Delaware late in the day produced strong wind gusts to around 45 mph. The winds tore off some shingles from the 270-year-old Lewes Chamber of Commerce (known as the Fisher-Martin House) Building.
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
- Heavy Snow in Utah, January 4 to 5, 2000
- High Wind in New York, January 4, 2000
- Winter Weather in Maine, January 4, 2000
- Winter Weather in New Hampshire, January 4, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Washington, January 4 to 31, 2000
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, January 4, 2000
- Strong Wind in Massachusetts, January 4, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 4 to 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 4 to 5, 2000
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, January 4, 2000
- Winter Storm in Michigan, January 4 to 5, 2000
- High Wind in Wyoming, January 4, 2000
More
Every storm in Delaware in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Delaware, January 2000
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: 5129564.