Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters
Every marine high wind event the National Weather Service has filed in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 48 knots or more over water.
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The most significant marine high wind episodes in North Atlantic Coastal Waters.
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- Heat and drought
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The record
- Events
- 219
- Deaths
- 4
- Injuries
- 1
- Damage
- $88,000
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, November 12 to 13, 2009A powerful nor'easter produced storm force wind gusts for around 24 hours across lower Delaware Bay, coastal Delaware and most of coastal New Jersey from the morning of the 12th into the early evening of the 13th. Peak wind gusts were around 52 knots (60 mph).
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, May 12, 2008A low pressure system, which was tracking eastward, was centered over the Illinois/Indiana border during the early morning hours of May 11th. A secondary low pressure system began to develop over eastern North Carolina during the late afternoon on the 11th.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, September 1, 2006A very tight pressure gradient developed Friday afternoon in response to the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto moving through the Mid Atlantic. Wind gusts around 50 knots occurred on the Lower Tidal Potomac and Middle Chesapeake Bay.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 16 to 17, 2019A powerful coastal storm developed along the NJ coast then moved|northeast across southern New England Wednesday night into Thursday.|This will brought periods of very heavy rain and strong to damaging|winds to the region.
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 3, 2016A strong cold front associated with a low pressure system moving through New York State swept across the Delaware Bay and coastal waters area during the late evening hours of April 2nd and early morning hours of April 3rd, accompanied by thunderstorms, very strong convectively…
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 28 to 30, 2012Post Tropical Storm Sandy produced hurricane force wind gusts on the area waters in the hours preceding and during its landfall in New Jersey.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, August 27 to 28, 2011Hurricane Irene produced numerous tropical storm force wind gusts and a couple of measured hurricane force wind gusts over the area waters including Delaware Bay from the late afternoon of the 27th through the early evening of the 28th. Peak wind gusts averaged 55 to 65 knots.
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, March 1 to 2, 2017An unseasonably warm and very moist air mass was conducive to maintaining a line of thunderstorms as they moved eastward across the coastal waters, despite sea surface temperatures in the low to mid-40s.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, December 23, 2022Low pressure deepened rapidly as it tracked through the eastern Great Lakes.|The storm produced damaging southeast to south winds across much of southern New England and minor to moderate coastal flooding the east and south coasts.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, February 7, 2020Powerful low pressure moved from eastern Pennsylvania across central Connecticut and central Massachusetts on February 7, 2020. A southerly jet of 85 to 95 mph was just above the surface at 925 mb.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 27, 2021A low pressure nor'easter underwent bombogenesis as it developed east of Nantucket on the 26th. It then moved west toward Nantucket Sound, before heading eastward again back out to sea on the 27th. Winds gusted to 60-90+ mph.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, February 3, 2023A major Arctic cold front blasted through southern New England on the morning of March 3rd. It was followed by a few rounds of strong and locally damaging wind gusts. Temperatures plunged to 10 to 20 below zero on the morning of March 4th.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 10, 2024A negatively tilted mid level trough swung through New England while at the surface a low pressure center passed directly over southern New England. This inland runner brought warm air so that all precipitation fell as rain, along with strong winds.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 13, 2020A powerful low pressure system tracked across the Great Lakes and brought strong |winds to the waters of Southern New England Monday late morning through the evening.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 29, 2012Sandy, a hybrid storm with both tropical and extra-tropical characteristics, brought high winds and coastal flooding to southern New England.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 19, 2022A coastal storm moved northward from the mid-Atlantic coast late on the 18th to interior New England during the pre-dawn morning hours on the 19th. Locally heavy rainfall helped bring down damaging wind gusts from a low-level jet across Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, February 1, 2026A strong upper trough moved through the region in early February, spawning deepening surface low pressure offshore. A very steep pressure gradient resulted in strong winds across the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coastal waters.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, March 14, 2017High winds occurred on the ocean and bay waters. Top gusts not listed are buoy 44065 with a 52 mph gust, Barnegat light with a 49 mph gust and seaside heights with a gust of 59 and 60 kt.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 4, 2018Strong winds occurred offshore and in the Delaware Bay waters. Also, due to extended cold snap portions of Delaware Bay were frozen over impacting commerce and other services.
- Marine Strong Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 26, 2018Scattered showers associated with low pressure moving northeast across the Mid Atlantic region produced gusty winds across portions of the Chesapeake Bay.
- Marine Strong Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, November 12, 2020A cold frontal passage produced strong winds across portions of the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Coastal Waters.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, November 12, 2021Southerly flow out ahead of an advancing cold front produced high winds over the RI coastal waters and strong winds over the eastern MA coastal waters.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, February 18, 2022Dry and unseasonably mild weather with near record temperatures preceded a period of strong winds late Thursday into Friday. A shortwave trough moving toward the Great Lakes combined with a surface cold front moving through late Thursday brought these winds along with heavy rain.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, August 28, 2011Hurricane Irene formed east of the Caribbean island of Dominica, part of the Lesser Antilles region, on the afternoon of August 20. Irene moved through the Caribbean and up the east coast of the United States making landfall twice.
- Marine High Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 27, 2015An historic winter storm brought heavy snow to southern New England with blizzard conditions to much of Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts, beginning during the day on Monday, January 26 and lasting into the early morning hours of Tuesday, January 27.
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Marine High Wind everywhereEvery kind of event in North Atlantic Coastal Waters
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.