High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- January 3, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 39 kt (45 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, January 3, 1996
to within 300 miles of Shemya where it stalled and began to weaken. Winds reached 39 mph at Adak and 45 mph at Shemya.
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 976 mb low moved up from the North Pacific...to within 300 miles of Shemya where it stalled and began to weaken. Winds reached 39 mph at Adak and 45 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
- Tornado in Florida, January 3, 1996
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- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 3, 1996
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 1996
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: 5540811.