High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- January 24, 12:00 AM AST to January 25, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, January 24 to 25, 1996
An intense 958 mb low moved slowly northward to offshore areas just southeast of the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Thursday. The strong weather front associated with this low elongated both north and east before slowly weakening in the Bering Sea and extreme eastern Aleutians Thursday.
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.
An intense 958 mb low moved slowly northward to offshore areas just southeast of the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Thursday. The strong weather front associated with this low elongated both north and east before slowly weakening in the Bering Sea and extreme eastern Aleutians Thursday. At Shemya winds reached 60 mph on Wednesday and 62 mph on Thursday.
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
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, January 24, 1996
- Flooding in Indiana, January 24 to 30, 1996
- Flooding in Maine, January 24 to 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, January 24, 1996
- Flood in Connecticut, January 24 to 25, 1996
- Flood in New York, January 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, January 24, 1996
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, January 24 to 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, January 24, 1996
- Blizzard in Wyoming, January 24, 1996
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 24 to 25, 1996
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, January 24 to 25, 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: 5540830.