High Wind, Glacier Bay
- When
- February 18, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 18, 1996
New daily high temperature at the Kodiak airport of 49. Wind gusts reached 48 mph at the airport and 62 mph at Sitkinak.
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.
New daily high temperature at the Kodiak airport of 49. Wind gusts reached 48 mph at the airport and 62 mph at Sitkinak.
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
- Heavy Snow in New York, February 18, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, February 18 to 20, 1996
- Flood in California, February 18 to 21, 1996
- Winter Storm in California, February 18 to 21, 1996
- High Wind in Hawaii, February 18 to 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 18, 1996
- Heavy Rain in California, February 18, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 18, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 18, 1996
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 1996
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: 5541051.