High Wind, Glacier Bay
- When
- February 26, 12:00 AM AST to February 28, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 26 to 28, 1996
A moderate weather front moved into the extreme eastern Aleutians late Monday and early Tuesday, elongating northward along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast and extreme western Alaska Peninsula late Wednesday morning and weakening. Late Monday, wind gusts reached 56 mph at Cold Bay.
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 moderate weather front moved into the extreme eastern Aleutians late Monday and early Tuesday, elongating northward along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast and extreme western Alaska Peninsula late Wednesday morning and weakening. Late Monday, wind gusts reached 56 mph at Cold Bay. On Tuesday, winds peaked at 68 mph at Cape Newenham, 58 mph at Farewell Lakes, 54 mph at King Salmon and 47 mph at Sparrevohn AFB. Wednesday winds got to 51 mph at Egegik, 50 mph at Iliamna, 47 mph at Port Heiden, 45 mph at Dillingham and 40 mph at Sitkinak Island.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Eastern Chichagof Island
- When
- February 26, 12:00 AM AST to February 28, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Eastern Chichagof Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 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
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, February 26 to 27, 1996
- Blizzard in North Dakota, February 26 to 28, 1996
- High Wind in Texas, February 26, 1996
- Ice Storm in Wisconsin, February 26 to 27, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, February 26 to 28, 1996
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, February 26 to 27, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, February 26 to 27, 1996
- Ice Storm in Wisconsin, February 26 to 27, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, February 26, 1996
- Winter Storm in Colorado, February 26, 1996
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, February 26 to 27, 1996
- High Wind in New Mexico, February 26, 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: 5541073, 5541074.