High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- April 29, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 36 kt (41 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, April 29, 1996
A moderate front in the northwest Pacific moved into the extreme western Aleutians Monday. Wind gusts reached 41 mph at Shemya 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.
A moderate front in the northwest Pacific moved into the extreme western Aleutians Monday. Wind gusts reached 41 mph at Shemya 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
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 29, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, April 29, 1996
- Frost and Freeze in Colorado, April 29, 1996
- Flooding in Indiana, April 29 to 30, 1996
- Flooding in Indiana, April 29 to 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 29, 1996
- Tornado in Mississippi, April 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 29, 1996
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 29, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, April 29, 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: 5540805.