High Wind, Glacier Bay
- When
- December 6, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, December 6, 1996
A vigorous, modified arctic air, convective trough moved by the Alaska Peninsula early Friday. Wind gusts reached 96 mph at Sand Point between 4:15 and 4:35 am.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 vigorous, modified arctic air, convective trough moved by the Alaska Peninsula early Friday. Wind gusts reached 96 mph at Sand Point between 4:15 and 4:35 am.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Eastern Chichagof Island
- When
- December 6, 4:15 AM AST to 4:35 AM AST
- Where
- Eastern Chichagof Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 83 kt (96 mph)
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
- Coastal Flood in New York, December 6, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, December 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, December 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Massachusetts, December 6, 1996
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, December 6, 1996
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, December 6, 1996
- Winter Storm in Connecticut, December 6, 1996
- Coastal Flood in Connecticut, December 6, 1996
- Coastal Flood in New Jersey, December 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 6, 1996
- High Wind in New Jersey, December 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Rhode Island, December 6, 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: 5579232, 5579231.