Strong winds
and windstorms

Country	Catalog Number	Type of Item	Year of Issue	Notes on Content
Strong winds and windstorms
Strong winds may be depicted, implied or mentioned in philatelic items found in the Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Extratropical Marine Storms, Blizzards, and Wind measurements pages. This section includes items with depictions of strong winds and windstorms that are not found in any of those pages. Exclusion: philatelic items with wind gods and associated strong winds are not included in this table. They will be found in an eventual page dedicated to Weather Gods, Myths and Lore.
Australian Antarctic Territory	Unknown folder (Mi? folder)	Folder back, also front and inside	2018	"the region's violent winds"
Canada	479 fdc (Mi420 fdc)	(?) cachet on FDC	1968
China (Taiwan)	1338 (Mi452)		1962	"The purpose of the commemorative (stamp 1338) is to make the free Chinese public aware of precautions it can take against high winds" (from FDC1 information cutout)
China (Taiwan)	1338 specimen	Overprinted with bars through face value
China (Taiwan)	1338 fdc1	Stamp and (orange and black printed) cachet on FDC (Taipei cancel), also information cutout (insert?)
China (Taiwan)	1338 fdc2	Stamp on FDC (Chinese cancel, multi-color printed cachet)
China (Taiwan)	1337-1339 fdc	One of three stamps on FDC
China (Taiwan)	1337-1339 folder1	FDC folder (Hsinchu and Tainin cancels), also front
China (Taiwan)	1337-1339 folder2	FDC folder (Hsinchu cancels), also front
Costa Rica	716 (BL?)	SS1, also detail	2020	strong winds breaking a tree
Great Britain	712 (Mi642)	One of strip of 5 (713a (709-713) (Mi639-643)	1973
Great Britain	713a+714 fdc	One of strip of 5 on FDC
Great Britain	1966a fdc1 (BL10, Mi1924-1927 fdc)	(Benham) cachet on FDC, also insert	2001	"Gale force winds"
Great Britain	1966a fdc2 (BL10, i1924-1927 fdc)	(A.G. Bradbury Leicester) cachet on FDC, also detail
Great Britain	2244c (Mi?)	One of MS6 (2244 (a-f))	2004
Great Britain	2247 (Mi?)	Self-adhesive
Great Britain	2245-2250 fdc	One of six self-adhesive stamps on FDC
Great Britain	2245-2250 pack	Presentation pack
Israel	2092+tab fdc (Mi2507+tab fdc)	(Israel Post) cachet on FDC	2016
Israel	2114+tab (Mi2528+tab)	One of MS4 (2114a (2029+2099a+2106a+2114)) (Mi2507+2512C+2522C+2528)	2016
Israel	2114+tab fdc	Stamp and tab and (pictorial) cancel and (Israel Post) cachet on FDC
Jersey (Great Britain)	2004 (Mi2078)	From MS10 (2004a (10x 2004))	2016	"Gales blow into the headland at Corbière"
Jersey (Great Britain)	1997-2004 fdc	One of eight stamps on FDC
Malta	1567 (Mi?)		2016	winter wind
New Zealand	None	(KiwiStamp) private post	2009	"Weather extremes - wind"; also "wind" (in text in FDC back)
New Zealand	None fdc	One of ten (KiwiStamp) private post stamps and (multi-color printed) cachet (reproduction of stamp) on FDC
New Zealand	2173 (Mi2485)	From block of 6 (2172-2177) (Mi2484-2489)	2008
New Zealand	2172-2177 fdc1	One of six stamps on FDC, also back
New Zealand	2172-2177 fdc2	One of six stamps on FDC (different, available only in a special limited-edition album, below)
New Zealand	2172-2177_album	Limited-edition album pages 1-3, also outside, page2, page3, certificate of authenticity; album contains MS5 (2177a (2172-2177))
St. Pierre and Miquelon	340 (Mi364)	From MS50 (340a (50x 340))	1947	Strong winds on a storm-swept coast
St. Pierre and Miquelon	340 proof	Proof (340)
St. Pierre and Miquelon	341 (Mi366)
St. Pierre and Miquelon	342 (Mi367)
St. Pierre and Miquelon	342 proof	Proof (342)
Sierra Leone	2228 (Mi?)		1999	A Sudden Gust of Wind, print by Hokusai
United States	None	(Black printed advertising) cachet on cover	1887	"wind storms"
United States	None	(Black printed) cachet on cover, also detail and front	1936	"windstorm"
United States	None	(Pictorial) cancel on cover, also detail	2000	Strong winds bending palm trees
United States	4053 (Mi4098) 4053_back	One of MS40 (4072a (4033-4072)) (Mi4078-4117), also back	2006	"Windiest place" (Mount Washington, with a record wind gust, other than in a hurricane or a tornado, of 231 miles per hour (372 km/h))
United States	4053 fdc1	Stamp and (pictorial) cancel and (?) cachet on FDC
United States	4053 fdc2	Stamp and (pictorial) cancel and (?) cachet (different) on FDC
United States	4053 fdc3	Stamp and (HL) cachet on FDC
United States	4053 fdc4	Stamp and (Mystic Stamp Company) cachet on FDC, also back
United States	4053 fdc5	Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet)
United States	4053 fdc6	Stamp on FDC (Fleetwood cachet), also back
United States	4053 fdc7	Stamp and (PCS) cachet on FDC
United States	SP1611	(USPS) souvenir page (4033-4072), also back
United States	CP763 page1	(USPS no.766) commemorative panel (4033-4072), also page2
United States	None	(Coverscape) cachet on cover	2019	"strong, gusting winds"
Katabatic winds
This section contains all philatelic items that refer to katabatic winds.
Australian Antarctic Territory	L172 (Mi212)	One of MS5 (L176b (L172-L176)) (Mi212-216)	2013	Violent katabatic winds and wind measurement at Cape Denison, the "Home of the Blizzard", during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition10; the lower (white) line in the graphic represents a mean observed wind speed; the upper (black) line is the stronger wind gust speed. The stamp and the maxicard and the cover of the stamp pack show men advancing with great difficulty against strong katabatic winds.
Australian Antarctic Territory	L172 maxi	Maxicard
Australian Antarctic Territory	L174a+L176a fdc1	One of set of 5 on FDC		(As above for stamps)
Australian Antarctic Territory	L174a+L176a fdc2	One of set of 5 on FDC (different), also back
Australian Antarctic Territory	L176b fdc1	MS5 on FDC
Australian Antarctic Territory	L176b fdc2	MS5 on FDC (different)
Australian Antarctic Territory	L172-L176 pack	Stamp pack interior, also exterior
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	None	(Blue rubber-stamp) cachet on cover	1984	"Joint Katabatic wind project"
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	None	(Oval black rubber-stamp) cachet on cover	1985	"Katabatic wind study"
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	106 cover (Mi183 cover)	(Black rubber-stamp) cachet on cover	1985	"Katabatic wind study"
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	206 (Mi334)		1995	Katabatic wind measurements by sodar at Dumont d'Urville base, Antarctica
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	206 fdc1	Stamp and (?) cachet on FDC
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	206 fdc2	Stamp and (Éditions J.F.) cachet on FDC
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	206 cover (Mi334 cover)	Stamp on cover	1996	Katabatic wind measurements by sodar at Dumont d'Urville base, Antarctica
Other wind-related
This section includes philatelic items related to the wind other than those found in: the Strong winds and windstorms and Katabatic winds sections above; the Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Extratropical Marine Storms, Blizzards, and Wind measurements pages; the Meteorological returns and weather reports, or instrument returns section of the National Weather Services page (where one can find a large number of philatelic items consisting of observations of various meteorological parameters sent by mail to a central agency, some of which refer to the wind (directions, speeds or character)); the eventual eventual Weather Gods, Myths and Lore page, which will include all items related to wind gods.
Argentina	2734 (Mi3570)		2014	"El viento zonda" (the zonda wind, a warm dry wind, often strong, that descends the eastern slopes of the Andes, similar to the chinook in North America)
Argentina	2733-2734 fdc	One of two stamps and (pictorial) cancel and (Correo Argentino) cachet on FDC
Bhutan	109D (Mi?)		1970	Breezing Up - A Fair Wind, painting by Winslow Homer
Bhutan	109Gi (BL?)	On one of MS4 (109D-109G)
Bophuthatswana (South Africa)	25-28 folder	FDC folder front, and inside	1978	"Wind"
Brazil	3218u (Mi?)	One of MS24 (3218 (a-x))	2012	"Wind energy" (in Portuguese text)
Brazil	3218q-r+3218u-v fdc	One of four stamps on FDC
Canada	1271 (Mi?)	From MS16 (1271a (16x 1271))	1990	The West Wind - Le Vent d'Ouest, painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson
Canada	1271 fdc1	Stamp and (Canada Post Corp.) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC
Canada	1271 fdc2	Block of 4 stamps and (Canada Post Corp.) cachet on FDC
Canada	1336 (Mi1250)	One of block of 4 (1337a (1334-1337)) (Mi1248-1251)	1991	Chinook (in stamp and pictorial cancel); also "the warm dry wind called a chinook, which blows eastward out of the Rockies" (in text in FDC back)
Canada	1337a fdc	Block of 4 and (pictorial) cancel on FDC, also back
Canada	1560b (Mi?)	One of MS4 (1560 (a-d))	1995	A September Gale, Georgian Bay, 1921 painting by Arthur Lismer
Canada	1559-1561 pack	Pack (10 stamps), also back
Chile	1172 (Mi1767)	One of pair (1173a (1172-1173))	1996	The mountain winds can make their music in the pan pipes of the modern sculpture "Aires Andinos".
Chile	1173a fdc	One of two stamps and (Correos de Chile) cachet on FDC, also back
China (People's Republic)	974 (Mi1003)		1968	"Today the autumn wind still sighs", part of the poem Beidaihe by Mao Zedong
Ciskei (South Africa)	167a (Mi187)	One of strip of 5 (167 (a-f)) (Mi187-191), or two of MS10 (167f (2x 167 (a-f)))	2004	"Cabo Ventoso" (Windy Cape); the text at the bottom of the stamp has been switched with that of 167b: it should read "São Bras, watering place for Portuguese ships, early 1500"
Ciskei (South Africa)	167 fdc	Stamp on FDC (CPT cachet)
Finland	583 (Mi?)		1976	Glider and (symbolic) wind current above the hills
France	5434 (Mi7018)	One of booklet pane of 12 (5445a (5434-5445)) (Mi7018-7029), with booklet outside (front and back)	2018	"Snow in Russia [and] 3 lines of trees" (in French text) (in an image taken from the ISS); the trees probably act as a windbreak to control drifting snow
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	None	(Black rubber-stamp) cachet on cover	1980	"Chapelle Notre-Dame du Vent" (Our Lady of the Wind Chapel)
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	99 (Mi171)		1983	"Our Lady of the Winds" (in French text) (chapel in Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands)
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	99 proof1	Proof (black-blue)
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	99 proof2	Proof (violet)
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	99 fdc1	Stamp and (Éditions P.J.) cachet on FDC
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	99 fdc2	Stamp and (Éditions J.F.) cachet on FDC
French Southern and Antarctic Territories	540 (Mi925)		2016	Our Lady of the Wind Chapel
Guernsey (Great Britain)	Unknown 3 (Mi?)		2017	"Through the rude wind's wild lament, And the bitter weather" (but those wild winds are not well-depicted in the stamp)
Guernsey (Great Britain)	Unknown 4 (Mi?)			"Sire, the night is darker now, And the wind blows stronger" and depiction of strong winds
Guernsey (Great Britain)	Unknown 5 (Mi?)			"Thou shalt find the winter's rage, Freeze thy blood less coldly" ("winter's rage" refers to the howling wind depicted in the stamp)
Khor Fakkan	Mi5	Sharjah C20 overprinted	1964	"Wind tower" (an architectural design that channels the wind to maximize natural ventilation and passive cooling in buildings)
Netherlands	1166b_tab8 (Mi2193-2194 tab8)	Tab8 from MS10 (1166b (5x (1165-1166) + 10 tabs))	2004	"wind"
Netherlands	1165-1166 fdc	(Pictorial) cancel on FDC (NVPH cachet)		symbolic wind (same design as the 1166b_tab8)
New Zealand	2920a (BL454, Mi3796-3799)	MS4 (2920a (2917-2920))	2020	"The Four Winds"
Poland	None	(Multi-color printed) cachet on postal card	1964	Wind from the Sea (Wiatr od morza), novel by Polish author Stefan Zeromski
Ross Dependency (New Zealand)	L155a (BL18, Mi155-160)	In (upper-left) margin of MS6 (L155a (L150-155))	2017	"Blow the Wind Southerly"
San Marino	C130 (Mi1077)		1974	Glider flying in (symbolically-depicted) upper level winds
San Marino	C131 (Mi1078)
San Marino	C132 (Mi1079)
San Marino	C130-C131 fdc	Two stamps and (Capitolium no.105 brown) cachet on FDC
San Marino	C130-C132 fdc	Three stamps and (San Marino Post) cachet on FDC
San Marino	C133 fdc	Stamp and (Capitolium no.105 blue) cachet on FDC
Sharjah	C20 (Mi85)		1964	"Wind tower" (an architectural design that channels the wind to maximize natural ventilation and passive cooling in buildings)
Sharjah	C42 (Mi164I)	C20 overprinted, 4 bars, type-1/thin	1965	"Wind tower" (an architectural design that channels the wind to maximize natural ventilation and passive cooling in buildings)
Sharjah	C42a (Mi164II)	C20 overprinted, 4 bars, type-2/thick
Sharjah	C49 (Mi167)	C20 overprinted, 3 bars, violet	1965	"Wind tower" (an architectural design that channels the wind to maximize natural ventilation and passive cooling in buildings)
Sweden	1152 (Mi?)		1976	Cave of the Winds, sculpture in Västerås, Sweden (depicted in stamp); "Vindarnas Grotta" (Cave of the Winds) (in FDC cancel and FDC cachet)
Sweden	1152 fdc	Stamp and (pictorial) cancel and (red and black printed) cachet on FDC
Uganda	1485 (Mi1863-1870)	In (lower) margin of MS8 (1485 (a-h))	1997	The Hubble Space Telescope makes its observations "away from the Earth's distorting air currents".
United States	None	(Black printed) cachet (return address) on cover	1907	"Michigan Mutual Tornado, Cyclone and Windstorm Insurance Co."
United States	None	(Black printed) cachet (return address) on cover	1910	"Farmers' Mutual Wind Storm and Cyclone Insurance Co."
United States	C54 fdc12 (Mi? fdc)	(Black printed) cachet on FDC	1959	"strong winds"
United States	1207 (Mi837)		1962	Breezing Up - A Fair Wind, painting by Winslow Homer
United States	1207 fdc1	Stamp and (Artmaster) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 fdc2	Stamp and (Fluegel Covers) cachet on FDC (3-line cancel)
United States	1207 fdc3	Stamp and (Fluegel Covers) cachet on FDC (4-line cancel)
United States	1207 fdc4	Stamp and (Hobo Art Cachet) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 fdc5	Stamp and (The Aristocrats/Day Lowry) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 fdc6	Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet)
United States	1207 fdc7	Stamp and (Centennial) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 fdc8	Stamp and (Ken Boll/Cachet Craft) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 fdc9	Stamp on FDC (Fleetwood cachet)
United States	1207 fdc10	Stamp on FDC (HF cachet)
United States	1207 fdc11	Stamp and (Glory) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 fdc12	Stamp on FDC (Overseas Mailer cachet)
United States	1207 fdc13	Stamp on FDC (blank/no cachet)
United States	1207 fdc14	Stamp on (airmail) FDC (blank/no cachet)
United States	1207 fdc15	Stamp and (Pyrrhus Add-On hand-painted acrylic) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 fdc16	Stamp and (Meter Digest) cachet on FDC, also back
United States	1207 fdc17	Stamp on FDC (Boerger/ABC cachet)
United States	1207 fdc18	Stamp on FDC (? cachet)
United States	1207 fdc19	Stamp on FDC (? cachet, different)
United States	1207 fdc20	Stamp on FDC (? cachet, different, and extra 1187 stamp)
United States	1207 fdc21	Stamp and (Hammond) cachet on FDC card
United States	1207 program	(Post Office Department) FDOI program
United States	1207a	Imperforate between horizontal pair and at right
United States	1207 poster	(Post Office Department) stamp poster (1207), no stamp or cancel
United States	SP87	(USPS) souvenir page (1207), with stamp and ? cancel
United States	1535 fdc (Mi? fdc)	(Ranto/SP87) cachet and extra (1207) stamp on FDC (with extra 1259 stamp), also back	1974	Breezing Up - A Fair Wind, painting by Winslow Homer
United States	U584 fdc (Mi? fdc)	(Fleetwood) back of FDC, also front	1977	"high wind areas"
United States	None	right side of (Citizen's Band) QSL card, also back	1978	"Chinook"
United States	1207 cover (Mi837 cover)	Stamp in (PCS) cachet on cover, also insert	1979	Breezing Up - A Fair Wind, painting by Winslow Homer
United States	1922 fdc (Mi1494 fdc)	(Fleetwood) back1 of FDC, also front and back2 (different)	1981	"Nowhere else but on the open ocean does the wind blow so freely. The sea of grass bears few trees and there are no obstacles to break the even tenor of the winds" ... "Grasses waist-high again blow unrestrained in the untamed wind"
United States	2006 fdc (Mi? fdc)	(Dan Kauer) cachet on FDC	1982	"Where do the strong winds blow?"
United States	2134 fdc (Mi? fdc)	(Basil/Fleetwood) cachet on FDC	1985	An iceboat "harnesses the wind to race across frozen lakes"
United States	3236j fdc (Mi? fdc)	Extra (1207) stamp and (Ranto/SP87) cachet on FDC, also back	1998	Breezing Up - A Fair Wind, painting by Winslow Homer
United States	3236d-e+3236i-j fdc (Mi? fdc)	(Dynamite) cachet on FDC
United States	1207 cover (Mi837 cover)	Stamp in (PCS) cachet on cover, also insert	1991	Breezing Up - A Fair Wind, painting by Winslow Homer
United States	3185i (Mi3035) 3185i back	One of pane of 15 (3185 (a-o)) (BL45, Mi3027-3041), also back	1998	"Gone With the Wind" (novel)
United States	SP1259D	(USPS) souvenir page (3185), also back
United States	CP537D page1	(USPS no.551A) commemorative panel (3185), also page2
United States	4066 fdc1 (Mi4111 fdc1)	(Mystic Stamp Company) back of FDC, also front	2006	"The moist trade winds of the Pacific"
United States	4066 fdc2 (Mi4111 fdc2)	(PCS golden-replica) insert from FDC, also front		"Mount Wai'ale'ale is just below the trade wind inversion layer"
United States	4066 fdc3 (Mi4111 fdc3)	(Fleetwood) back of FDC, also front		"As tropical trade winds flow up and over the slopes [of Mt. Wai'ale'ale], the air is cooled and the moisture often condenses"
United States	4070 fdc (Mi4115 fdc)	(Mystic Stamp Company) cachet on FDC, also back		"The wind constantly changes the shapes of the dunes" (in Death Valley)
United States	4473 fdc (Mi? fdc)	(ArtCraft) cachet on FDC (with extra 1207 and 3236j stamps)	2010	Breezing Up - A Fair Wind, painting by Winslow Homer (on one extra stamp)
United States	4524k fdc (Mi4691 fdc)	(Fleetwood) back of FDC, also front	2011	"Trees ... can help block strong winds"
United States	None	(Coverscape) cachet on cover	2013	"Wind Cave National Park"
United States	None	(Coverscape) cachet on cover	2015	"destructive winds ... hurricane-force winds, peaking at 110 miles per hour in central New England"
United States	None	(Coverscape) cachet on cover	2018	"hurricane force winds"
United States	None	(ATA pictorial) cancel on cover	2021	"Celebrating the Windy City"

Country	Cancel Date	Cancel Location	Type of Item	Notes on Content
Strong winds and windstorms
Finland	2018-12-18	Kerava	(SVP) cachet on NROL-71 (KH11-17) launch scrubbed cover	"High winds"
Other wind-related
Pakistan	1962-06-09	Lahore	(Green printed) back of (orange and black printed) cover, also front	"study the wind shear and [wind] current structure in the layers of the upper atmosphere"
United States	1967-03-31	Wallops Island VA	(Centennial) cachet on (sub-orbital) Nike-Tomahawk rocket launch cover	"to test [upper level] wind movements"
United States	1978-06-26	GSFC, MD	(GSFC Stamp Club) cachet on SeaSat launch cover	Objectives included monitoring "surface wind speed and direction" over the oceans
United States	1978-06-27	Vandenberg AFB, CA	(Space Voyage) cachet on SeaSat launch cover
United States	1981-11-14	Edwards AFB Station CA	(Colorano silk) cachet on STS-2 landing cover	"the windy desert at Edwards Air Force Base"
United States	1985-04-19	Kennedy Space Center FL	(Zaso silk/IASP no.96) cachet on STS-51D landing cover	"strong tailwind"
United States	1989-05-04	Houston TX	(Colorano silk) cachet on STS-30R launch cover	"gusting crosswinds"
United States	1989-05-08	Edwards AFB, CA	(Colorano silk) cachet on STS-30R landing cover	"gusting winds"
United States	1989-11-27	Edwards AFB, CA	(Colorano silk) cachet on STS-33R landing cover	"crosswinds and tailwinds"
United States	1991-05-06	Kennedy Space Center FL	(Colorano silk) cachet on STS-39 landing cover	"winds were gusting as high as 32 kt"
Japan	1991-09-11	Uchinoura	(Space Voyage) cachet on (sub-orbital) rocket launch cover	"study ozone, wind velocity and temperature in [the] stratosphere"
United States	2017-03-16	Kennedy Space Center FL	(Multi-color printed) cachet on EchoStar-23 launch cover	The original launch attempt "had to be scrubbed due to high winds at the Cape"
United States	2017-03-16	Hawthorne CA	(Multi-color printed) cachet on EchoStar-23 launch cover
United States	2018-07-25	Vandenberg AFB, CA	(Red Eagle) cachet on Iridium-NEXT-154-156+158-160+163-166 launch cover	"unfavorable winds"
United States	2019-12-04	Houston TX	(Red Eagle) cachet on Dragon-CRS-19 launch-delay cover	delayed for a day "due to high altitude winds and variable winds around the droneship"
United States	2019-12-05	Cape Canaveral FL	(Red Eagle) cachet on Dragon-CRS-19 launch cover	delayed for a day "due to high altitude winds and variable winds around the droneship"
United States	2019-12-05	Houston TX	(Red Eagle) cachet on Dragon-CRS-19 launch cover
United States	2019-12-05	Hawthorne CA	(Red Eagle) cachet on Dragon-CRS-19 launch cover
United States	2021-05-15	Long Beach CA	(Mission 57) back from BlackSky-8/9 [failed] launch cover, also front	"High upper-level winds"