Wind speed on a specific date at your address
A wind figure is only as good as its distance. An airport anemometer 30 miles from a roof reads the wind at the airport; a thunderstorm's strongest gusts fall on a strip a few miles wide and can miss the nearest instrument altogether. A wind speed stated for an address without the place it was read is a figure missing its first qualification. This page states it on every row.
A gust is the highest speed over a few seconds and is what loads a roof; a sustained speed is the mean over a minute or two and is almost always lower. The record keeps them apart, and so does this page. The National Weather Service treats a gust of 58 mph or more as a damaging wind, and a day that reached it is marked as severe.
The lookup reads the wind record as its publishers release it: local storm reports relayed by National Weather Service offices, the Storm Prediction Center's storm reports, the NCEI Storm Events database, the damage surveys NWS offices publish after a storm, and the hourly observations from ASOS and AWOS stations, each kept to its kind and counted as its own independent source.
What the lookup reads
- The reports
- Every wind report in the archive with a point within 10 miles of the address on the date, counted with how many independent sources carried them, the strongest measured figure and the strongest estimate, each by the kind of evidence behind it. The same record, compiled by city rather than by day, is the wind history by state and by city.
- The instruments
- The nearest stations within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from on that day, with the peak gust and peak sustained speed at each, the hour of each in UTC, and the distance from the address to the instrument.
- What the report adds
- The storm at the roof: distance and bearing from the property for every record, each named to its federal source, the analysis grid sampled at the address and labelled as analyzed, every weather family searched beside wind, and a fingerprinted document that states its own method.
- What this is not
- Figures for a place on a day, not findings about a property. Nothing here says what reached one roof, and this page states no opinion about one.
- Terms used on this page
- Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
Questions this page is asked
How do I find the wind speed at my address on a specific date?
Enter the street address and the date. The page reads every wind report on the public record within the stated radius of the address on that day, states the strongest measured and estimated figures by the kind of evidence behind each, and lists the nearest weather stations the archive holds readings from, with the peak gust at each and its distance from the address.
Is the wind speed measured at my property?
Almost never. A station reading is the wind at the instrument, which may be some miles off, and the distance is stated on every row. A gust is the highest speed over a few seconds and is what loads a roof; a sustained speed is a mean over a minute or two and is almost always lower. The page keeps them apart.
Can I use this wind report for an insurance claim?
This page is the public record for a place on a day: reports, instruments and distances, free. A claim file needs the record at the address, with the distance and bearing of every record from the roof, each named to the federal source it came from; that is the report, and the form at the foot of the page opens it on the address you typed.
What if no wind is on record for that day?
A day with no report is a day no source filed one within the radius, and the page says so as a result rather than an error. Station readings are held only where an address has been run, so a day with none is one no nearby report has yet asked about.
The lookup is the record around a place. The report is what reached the roof.
Everything above answers for a place on a day: the reports, the instruments, and how far away each stood. None of it says what reached one roof.
Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: every wind report with its distance and bearing from the roof, the nearest station hour by hour, the analysis grid sampled at the address, and the federal record each figure came from, in a fingerprinted document that states its own method. About a minute.
About this record
Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.
No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and spotters cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.
These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.