High Wind, Eastern Chichagof Island
- When
- July 2, 5:00 PM AST to July 3, 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Eastern Chichagof Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 39 kt (45 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, July 2 to 3, 1996
then curved steadily eastward just south of the eastern Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula Wednesday and Thursday. Wind gusts reached 45 mph at Cold Bay Tuesday evening and again Wednesday evening just before 6pm.
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 low developed in the extreme northcentral Pacific...then curved steadily eastward just south of the eastern Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula Wednesday and Thursday. Wind gusts reached 45 mph at Cold Bay Tuesday evening and again Wednesday evening just before 6pm.
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 Oklahoma, July 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, July 2, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 2, 1996
- Hail in Virginia, July 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 2, 1996
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 2, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, July 2, 1996
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, July 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: 5550284.