High Wind, Eastern Chichagof Island
- When
- January 23, 12:00 AM AST to January 24, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Eastern Chichagof Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 40 kt (46 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, January 23 to 24, 1996
A moderate 974 mb low in the northcentral Pacific curved northwest to between Attu and the Kamchatka Peninsula, weakening to 985 mbs Wednesday afternoon. Winds reached 46 mph at Cold Bay Wednesday.
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 moderate 974 mb low in the northcentral Pacific curved northwest to between Attu and the Kamchatka Peninsula, weakening to 985 mbs Wednesday afternoon. Winds reached 46 mph at Cold Bay Wednesday. On Tuesday, winds reached 43 mph at Dutch Harbor and 40 mph at Shemya.
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
- Tornadoes in Louisiana, January 23, 1996
- Flooding in Ohio, January 23 to 30, 1996
- Flood in California, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Flooding in Kentucky, January 23 to 30, 1996
- High Wind in Tennessee, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Storm in Idaho, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, January 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Blizzard in Wyoming, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Storm in California, January 23 to 24, 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: 5540829.