High Wind, Glacier Bay
- When
- April 28, 12:00 AM AST to April 29, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 37 kt (43 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, April 28 to 29, 1996
Brisk northwest winds blew from the southwest Alaska mainland toward a low near Middleton Island Sunday and Monday. At Sitkinak Island (just southwest of Kodiak Island) gusts reached 40 mph on Sunday and 43 mph on Monday.
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.
Brisk northwest winds blew from the southwest Alaska mainland toward a low near Middleton Island Sunday and Monday. At Sitkinak Island (just southwest of Kodiak Island) gusts reached 40 mph on Sunday and 43 mph on Monday.
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.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flood in Illinois, April 28, 1996
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- Flash Flood in Illinois, April 28, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 28, 1996
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: 5540806.