High Wind, Glacier Bay
- When
- February 19, 12:00 AM AST to February 20, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 71 kt (82 mph)
- Property damage
- $10,000
High Wind in Alaska, February 19 to 20, 1996
Strong westerly winds were reported from 2pm Monday through 8am Tuesday as a moderate low deepened to 988 mbs and moved southeast across Kodiak Island to 200 miles southeast of Kodiak Monday afternoon. Winds reached 82 mph on Monday.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 westerly winds were reported from 2pm Monday through 8am Tuesday as a moderate low deepened to 988 mbs and moved southeast across Kodiak Island to 200 miles southeast of Kodiak Monday afternoon. Winds reached 82 mph on Monday. Trees fell on power lines, signs were blown away, a canopy was blown off a truck and a 28 foot cabin cruiser was blown off of its trailer.
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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- Tornado in Mississippi, February 19, 1996
- Tornado in Mississippi, February 19, 1996
- Tornado in Mississippi, February 19, 1996
- Tornado in Mississippi, February 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, February 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, February 19, 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: 5541056.