Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters
Every marine high wind event the National Weather Service has filed in South 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 South Atlantic Coastal Waters.
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The record
- Events
- 52
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $52,000
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 7 to 10, 2011A stationary upper-level disturbance, strong onshore flow, and a weak frontal boundary produced persistent onshore moving squalls on October 7-8.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, November 16, 2023As a strengthening low-pressure system moved across the Florida Keys into the Atlantic, a wake-low developed on the backside of the system's precipitation field. This resulted in strong winds across the nearshore Atlantic Waters on the morning of November 16th.
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, May 24, 2012An area of low pressure, which a few days later became Tropical Storm Beryl off the SE United States coast, rapidly developed along a surface trough over the Florida Keys and then moved northeast along the Florida coast causing strong wind gusts.
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 20, 2012Several strong to severe thunderstorms occurred as low to mid-level southwest winds brought a warm and very moist air mass into east central Florida and across the adjacent coastal waters.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, February 1, 2026A low pressure system developed along a baroclinic zone off the coast of Georgia during the overnight hours between Friday January thirtieth and Saturday January thirty-first.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, August 26, 2011Hurricane Irene passed by to the east of the South Carolina and Georgia coastline on August 26, 2011, producing tropical storm force wind gusts over the Atlantic Coastal Waters.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 18, 2026A strong cold front produced gusts between 40 to 60 mph along the east central Florida coastline.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 31, 2026A low pressure system developed along a baroclinic zone off the coast of Georgia during the overnight hours between Friday January 30th and Saturday January31st.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 14, 2009A wake low phenomenon occurred over Lake Okeechobee the evening of April 14, causing winds to gust over 60 mph.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 11 to 12, 2025A rapidly deepening low pressure system off the Carolina Coast interacted with strong high pressure ridging centered in the Northeast which extended down into the Mid-Atlantic.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, May 27, 2012Tropical Storm Beryl moved onshore on the northeast Florida coast the night of Sunday May 27th...and moved slowly inland across north Florida Monday the 28th and on the 29th began to recurve to the northeast over south Georgia.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 27, 2012Hurricane Sandy weakened to a tropical storm while shifting north from the Bahamas to the Southeastern United States. While traveling north, the edge of Sandy skirted along Georgia and South Carolina waters on 10/26 and 10/27.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 3, 2022A strong cold front resulted in strong gradient winds across portions of the adjacent coastal waters.
- Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, January 9, 2024A quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) developed along a strong cold front which pushed through a very high shear (80 knots of effective bulk shear)/low CAPE (500-1000 J/kg MLCAPE) environment across the area and the nearby coastal waters.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 25, 2008A gravity wave caused strong winds along and off the coast of southeast North Carolina.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, May 16, 2010Thunderstorms crossed the extreme northern Outer Banks during the early morning hours of May 16th 2010. One of the storms produced a wind gust to 59 mph at the end of Duck Pier.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, February 12, 2010A surface low tracked eastward from the Gulf of Mexico with a surface warm front extending toward the southern Florida peninsula. Cold air was in place across the area as well as deep moisture. An upper level short wave trough approached the area from the west.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, March 24, 2013A strong onshore pressure gradient produce high wind gusts along the coast.
- Marine High Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 4, 2015Strong gradient winds and an enhanced band of showers produced a severe wind gust across the near shore waters off of Wrightsville Beach.
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Marine High Wind everywhereEvery kind of event in South 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 2026-09-30.