High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- April 12, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 47 kt (54 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, April 12, 1996
A strong 964 mb low just south of Attu late Friday remained nearly stationary and slowly began to weaken late Sunday. weakening in an arc from the southwest Bering Sea to near Cape Sarichef late Sunday.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS AFC wrote it up.
A strong 964 mb low just south of Attu late Friday remained nearly stationary and slowly began to weaken late Sunday. The strong weather front associated with this low elongated both east and north...weakening in an arc from the southwest Bering Sea to near Cape Sarichef late Sunday. Peak winds reported at Shemya occurred on Friday...54 mph. Also on Friday, Adak reported wind gusts of 44 mph.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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More
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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5540797.