High Wind in Guam
Every high wind event the National Weather Service has filed in Guam, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
The most significant on the map
The most significant high wind episodes in Guam.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 15
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 3
- Damage
- $1.3 million
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Hurricane and Flooding in Guam, August 1 to 30, 1997August saw an active Monsoon trough place itself across the region. This caused copious amounts of rain across the Marianas Islands. This resulted in numerous periods of heavy rainfall and localized Urban and Small Stream flooding.
- Flooding and High Wind in Guam, September 19 to 20, 2013A monsoon trough could be found near or over the Marianas for much of the month|of September. At times during the first half of the month it could be found south of Guam. During the second half of the month it became more active and was either over or north of Guam.
- High Wind in Guam, January 24, 2000Strong winds caused by a surge in the winter monsoon moved across Guam. These strong winds caused several power outages across the island. Residents of Apra Harbor and the Bear Rock area were without power after a power pole being worked on by contractors blew down.
- High Wind in Guam, August 11 to 17, 2001An active monsoon trough moved across the Mariana Islands. This resulted in periods of heavy rain showers and gusty winds across Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan. The gusty winds caused power outages in some villages across Guam. Agat, Umatac, Merizo, and Inarajan.
- Flash Flood and High Wind in Guam, September 16 to 17, 2024A strong winds associated with monsoon surge impacted the Marianas around September 16th as a monsoon depression (Invest 97W) developed and would later become Tropical Storm Pulasan in the Philippine Sea, west of the Marianas.
- High Wind in Guam, October 26, 1998On the 26th strong winds moved across Chuuk State. Winds started picking up at the National Weather Service Office on the island of Weno at around 1320 and died down by 1830. A peak wind of 54 mph occurred at 1632 at the Weather Service Office.
- Flood and High Wind in Guam, August 10, 2000A monsoon depression moved across the area and became Tropical Depression 15W west of Guam on the 9th. It eventually increased strength to become Tropical Storm Ewiniar on the 10th when it was well to the northwest of Guam.
- High Wind in Guam, October 15, 2009On October 15th, the automated station at Apra harbor, Guam, reported gusts of 59 mph from the east in the hour ending at 0751 GST, and 61 mph from the east-southeast in the hour ending at 1151 GST.
- High Wind in Guam, August 28, 2001Strong west winds caused damage in Majuro. During the afternoon the winds gusted to 44 mph (measured by the NWS Office inMajuro). A number of vessels broke from their moorings. One yacht was badly damaged when one vessel slammed into itrepeatedly.
- High Wind in Guam, October 20, 2004A wind gust of 51 kt (59 mph) was reported by the automated station at the University of Guam in Mangilao. The gust was associated with the passage of Typhoon Nock-Ten well southwest of the island.
- High Wind in Guam, July 9 to 10, 2007High winds buffeted Guam and the northern Mariana Islands of Rota, Tinian and Saipan on July 9th and 10th as Tropical Storm Man-Yi passed well southwest of the islands.
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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.