High Wind, Haines Borough and Lynn Canal
- When
- March 26, 12:00 AM AST to March 30, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Haines Borough and Lynn Canal forecast zone
- Measured
- 46 kt (53 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 26 to 30, 1996
with gusts reaching 46 mph at Whittier Wednesday and Friday, 50 mph at the Valdez airport on Wednesday and Saturday and 53 mph at the Valdez city site Saturday.
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.
Cold air "drainage" winds into Prince William Sound continued...with gusts reaching 46 mph at Whittier Wednesday and Friday, 50 mph at the Valdez airport on Wednesday and Saturday and 53 mph at the Valdez city site Saturday.
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
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: 5569798.