High Wind, Kent
- When
- November 10, 4:45 AM EST
- Where
- Kent forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.096, -75.505 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Delaware, November 10, 2000
High winds mixed down from aloft as a line of showers moved across northwest Kent County during the early morning of the 10th. A shed was tossed sixty feet and landed on and crushed a car.
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.
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- 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
- 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.
High winds mixed down from aloft as a line of showers moved across northwest Kent County during the early morning of the 10th. A shed was tossed sixty feet and landed on and crushed a car. The high winds also stripped away the housing of a chimney, blew a heat pump from its concrete block base, left siding and shingles spread around one yard and tore the roof from one trailer. All the damage occurred along Long Ridge Road west of Kenton.
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
- Tornado in California, November 10, 2000
- Winter Storm in Kansas, November 10 to 11, 2000
- Coastal Flood in New Jersey, November 10, 2000
- Heavy Snow in California, November 10, 2000
- Heavy Rain in New York, November 10, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, November 10 to 11, 2000
- High Wind in North Carolina, November 10, 2000
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, November 10 to 11, 2000
- Winter Storm in Colorado, November 10 to 11, 2000
- Heavy Rain in Connecticut, November 10, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, November 10, 2000
- Heavy Rain in Rhode Island, November 10, 2000
More
Every storm in Delaware in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Delaware, November 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: 5161753.