High Wind, Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway
- When
- February 19, 12:00 AM AST to February 20, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway forecast zone
- Measured
- 67 kt (77 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 19 to 20, 1996
Strong "ouflow" winds around the back side of a 975 mb low near Cape Suckling (just east of Cordova) generated gusts of 58 mph at Whittier, 53 mph at the Valdez airport and 53 mph at Seal Island in Prince William Sound and 77 mph at Middleton Island Monday. On Tuesday, gusts reached 62 mph at Seward and 58 mph at the Valdez city site.
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.
Strong "ouflow" winds around the back side of a 975 mb low near Cape Suckling (just east of Cordova) generated gusts of 58 mph at Whittier, 53 mph at the Valdez airport and 53 mph at Seal Island in Prince William Sound and 77 mph at Middleton Island Monday. On Tuesday, gusts reached 62 mph at Seward and 58 mph at the Valdez city site.
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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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: 5541055.