High Wind, Eastern Baranof Island and Southern Admiralty Island
- When
- March 19, 7:00 PM AST to March 21, 3:00 AM AST
- Where
- Eastern Baranof Island and Southern Admiralty Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 19 to 21, 1996
The combination between a deepening low pressure center in the southwest Bering Sea and strong high pressure over eastern Alaska, and the low's weather front moving north over the Bering Sea produced strong winds intermittently.Zone 24: Gambell SE 50g60 kts, Savoonga SE 45g57 kts, Tin City S 36g48…
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 AFG wrote it up.
The combination between a deepening low pressure center in the southwest Bering Sea and strong high pressure over eastern Alaska, and the low's weather front moving north over the Bering Sea produced strong winds intermittently.Zone 24: Gambell SE 50g60 kts, Savoonga SE 45g57 kts, Tin City S 36g48 kts, Cape Prince of Wales SE 42g60 ktsZone 6: Unalakleet E 36g44 kts
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
- Winter Storm in Ohio, March 19 to 21, 1996
- Winter Storm in Illinois, March 19 to 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, March 19 to 21, 1996
- High Wind in Maryland, March 19, 1996
- High Wind in New York, March 19 to 20, 1996
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, March 19 to 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Indiana, March 19 to 20, 1996
- High Wind in New York, March 19 to 20, 1996
- High Wind in Vermont, March 19 to 20, 1996
- High Wind in New Jersey, March 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, March 19 to 20, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, March 19, 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: 5569453.