High Wind, Cape Decision to Salisbury Sound Coastal Area
- When
- March 15, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Cape Decision to Salisbury Sound Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 37 kt (43 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 15, 1996
A moderate weather front crossing the Alaska Peninsula brought winds up to 43 mph at Saint Paul Island.
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 weather front crossing the Alaska Peninsula brought winds up to 43 mph at Saint Paul Island.
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
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- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 15, 1996
- Hail in Alabama, March 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, March 15, 1996
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 15, 1996
- Hail in Alabama, March 15, 1996
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 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: 5569790.