High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- February 29, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 48 kt (55 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 29, 1996
A large and strong 952 mb low drifted north to 200 miles southwest of Amchitka late Thursday. Winds reached 46 mph at Adak and 55 mph at Shemya in advance of the front associated with this low.
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.
A large and strong 952 mb low drifted north to 200 miles southwest of Amchitka late Thursday. Winds reached 46 mph at Adak and 55 mph at Shemya in advance of the front associated with this low.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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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: 5541076.