High Wind, Allegany
- When
- January 16, 11:59 AM EST
- Where
- Allegany forecast zone
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph)
- Property damage
- $80,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
66 MPH wind gust; Roof blown off a home and shed and trees downed.
High Wind in Maryland, January 16, 2000
A strong cold front moved across Western Maryland midday on the 16th, producing winds in excess of 55 MPH. At the Cumberland Airport, a wind gust of 66 MPH was recorded at 11:59 AM.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $80,000
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
A strong cold front moved across Western Maryland midday on the 16th, producing winds in excess of 55 MPH. At the Cumberland Airport, a wind gust of 66 MPH was recorded at 11:59 AM. Near Cumberland, a roof was blown off a home and a garage. Several trees were downed in the vicinity, including one that fell onto a car. In Cumberland, roofing material blew off a 3rd Street business, damaging a car and closing the road for several hours. An awning was blown off a Cumberland home and another resident reported a damaged shed. Near Artemus, a tree on Moore's Hollow Road was downed onto a power line and sparked a brush fire.
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.
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More
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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: 5128678.