High Wind in Pennsylvania

Events

1,628

Deaths

26

Injuries

43

Damage

$109 million

• Flooding and Coastal Flood in Pennsylvania, October 29 to 30, 201211 deaths · 6 injured · $16 million · 70 kt wind · 18 eventsPost Tropical Storm Sandy caused an initial estimate of $20 million dollars in damage in Pennsylvania and directly or indirectly caused 15 deaths across the state. Most of the damage in the eastern part of the state was wind related as wind gusts reached as high as 81 mph.
• Flash Flooding and Coastal Flood in Pennsylvania, September 16 to 17, 19996 deaths · 38 injured · $60 million · 50 kt wind · 23 eventsHurricane Floyd battered Eastern Pennsylvania (especially Southeast sections around Philadelphia) on September 16th and brought with it torrential and in some places record breaking rains and damaging winds.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, November 13, 20033 deaths · $50,000 · 71 kt wind · 34 eventsA strong cold front swept across central Pennsylvania during the early morning hours of November 13th, 2003. Strong winds behind the cold front intensified as low pressure deepened north of the region.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, September 14, 20081 death · $15 million · 70 kt wind · 11 eventsLow pressure from the remains of Hurricane Ike moved across central Ohio to Lake Erie on the evening of September 14th and produced very strong winds into the early morning of September 15th across eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, November 13, 20031 death · 3 injured · $2.2 million · 52 kt wind · 10 eventsThe combination of a rapidly deepening low pressure system moving through the Saint Lawrence Valley and a high pressure system building in from the Plains States produced high winds across Eastern Pennsylvania.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 12, 20001 death · 2 injured · $500,000 · 36 eventsLow pressure tracked northeast from the Mississippi Valley, intensifying rapidly as it tracked across Cleveland, OH overnight to Montreal, Canada by Tuesday morning of the 12th.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, October 29 to 30, 20121 death · $1.7 million · 65 kt wind · 8 eventsHurricane Sandy brought high winds and locally heavy rains to northeast Pennsylvania beginning Monday October 29th during the afternoon and continuing until Tuesday morning the 30th.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 12, 20001 death · 1 injured · $360,000 · 51 kt wind · 10 eventsA rapidly intensifying low pressure system and its associated cold front produced high winds across Eastern Pennsylvania during the morning of the 12th. Peak wind gusts ranged between 50 and 60 mph.
• Winter Storm and High Wind in Pennsylvania, March 2, 20181 death · 6 injured · 54 kt wind · 25 eventsA cold front stalled across the region on March 1st. Meanwhile, a wave of low pressure developed along this front in the Ohio Valley and move eastward, explosively deepening just southeast of Long Island on March 2nd.
• High Wind and Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, December 1, 20041 death · $170,000 · 50 kt wind · 10 eventsThe combination of a rapidly intensifying low pressure system and a strong cold frontal passage produced peak wind gusts of around 50 mph across Eastern Pennsylvania during the second half of the morning and throughout most of the afternoon of the 1st.
• High Wind and Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, March 8 to 9, 20081 death · $145,000 · 50 kt wind · 10 eventsStrong to damaging wind gusts affected eastern Pennsylvania during the evening and overnight on the 8th after a line of severe thunderstorms passed through eastern sections of the state.
• Flooding and Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, October 29 to 31, 20121 death · 56 kt wind · 39 eventsHurricane Sandy began as a tropical wave over the Caribbean Sea around 19 October 2012 and became a powerful storm by 23 October 2012 before making its long track over the western Atlantic, just off the East Coast of the United States and then into New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 1, 20061 death · $10,000 · 71 kt wind · 36 eventsStrong gradient winds behind a cold front caused widespread tree damage across central Pennsylvania. All 36 zones in the State College area of warning responsibility reported some damage from the strong wind event.
• Storm Surge and Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 18 to 19, 20031 injured · $32 million · 52 kt wind · 14 eventsTropical Storm Isabel produced strong power outage producing winds, moderate tidal flooding along the Delaware River and stream flooding in Chester County. Isabel made landfall as a hurricane near Drum Inlet, North Carolina around 100 p.m.
• Flash Flooding and High Wind in Pennsylvania, August 28, 2011$24 million · 50 kt wind · 14 eventsHurricane Irene brought heavy rains and high winds from northeast Pennsylvania to the Catskill Mountains of New York from Saturday evening the 27th to Sunday afternoon the 28th.
• High Wind and Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, March 6, 19971 death · 59 kt wind · 10 eventsA rapidly intensifying low pressure system and the pressure difference between it and a high pressure system over the Upper Plains caused strong to locally damaging winds in Eastern Pennsylvania and one fatality.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, September 11, 20021 death · 10 eventsThe pressure difference between a strong high pressure system in the central part of the country and Tropical Storm Gustav located well east of the Delmarva Peninsula produced strong gusty northwest winds throughout the day on the 11th.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 16 to 17, 20251 death · 56 kt wind · 10 eventsA powerful cold front and strengthening low pressure system resulted in high winds across the region starting during the evening of February 16th and continuing into the morning of the 17th.
• High Wind and Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, January 23 to 24, 20171 death · $10 · 50 kt wind · 4 eventsAn area of low pressure over North Carolina on the 23rd strengthened and moved northeast to a location just off the New Jersey Coastline on the morning of the 24th. With a very tight pressure gradient, winds increased ahead of the storm reaching in excess of 50 mph.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, May 3, 19971 death · 50 kt wind · 1 eventHigh winds took down a tree and killed a woman while she was mowing her lawn on a riding lawn mower in Greencastle.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, November 30, 20001 death · 1 eventA 50-year-old man was killed by a tree limb in West Philadelphia. The man was walking through a park when a large limb was snapped by the gusty wind and broke his neck. The peak wind gust at Philadelphia International Airport was 38 mph.
• High Wind and Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, February 12, 2009$5.3 million · 56 kt wind · 10 eventsStrong to high winds affected Eastern Pennsylvania during the day on the 12th. The strong winds started shortly after a cold frontal passage between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. EST and persisted through most of the day.
• Damaging Winds and High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 11 to 12, 2009$2.1 million · 80 kt wind · 28 eventsA powerful cold front moved across the Ohio Valley on the evening of the 11th as strong low pressure moved north across the Great Lakes.
• Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, December 1, 2006$645,000 · F1 · 27 eventsA powerful storm system and associated cold front produced severe thunderstorms, high winds and a tornado across Western Pennsylvania, Southeast Ohio, Northern West Virgina, and Garrett county Maryland.
• High Wind in Pennsylvania, September 14, 2008$3.5 million · 60 kt wind · 3 eventsAt daybreak on September 14th, the remnants of Hurricane Ike were centered over southeastern Missouri. This low moved rapidly northeast during the day reaching Northwest Ohio during the afternoon of the 14th.

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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.