High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- January 30, 12:00 AM AST to January 31, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, January 30 to 31, 1996
As the track of major lows shifted further west, an intense low deepened to 965 mbs just southeast of the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, curving northwestward into the Sea of Okhotsk where it weakened Wednesday. The front associated with this low moved into the western Aleutians.
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.
As the track of major lows shifted further west, an intense low deepened to 965 mbs just southeast of the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, curving northwestward into the Sea of Okhotsk where it weakened Wednesday. The front associated with this low moved into the western Aleutians. A frontal low developed in the northcentral Pacific and moved to 300 miles south of Attu as a 980 mb center Wednesday afternoon. Winds reached 61 mph at Shemya on Tuesday and 48 mph Wednesday.
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
- Cold in Wisconsin, January 30, 1996
- Cold in Washington, January 30, 1996
- Cold in Wyoming, January 30 to 31, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Hawaii, January 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, January 30, 1996
- Cold in Wisconsin, January 30 to 31, 1996
- Cold in Iowa, January 30 to 31, 1996
- Cold in Illinois, January 30 to 31, 1996
- Blizzard in Wyoming, January 30, 1996
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 30 to 31, 1996
- Cold in Montana, January 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 30 to 31, 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: 5540839.