High Wind, Eastern Chichagof Island
- When
- March 6, 12:00 AM AST to March 7, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Eastern Chichagof Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 6 to 7, 1996
A relatively weak 1003 mb low moved northwest toward Dutch Harbor Thursday. A moderate high pressure ridge, however, extending northeast-southwest from Prince William Sound to the Gulf of Alaska east of Kodiak, caused brisk southeasterly winds across the Alaska Peninsula and portions of the southwest Alaskan coast.
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 relatively weak 1003 mb low moved northwest toward Dutch Harbor Thursday. A moderate high pressure ridge, however, extending northeast-southwest from Prince William Sound to the Gulf of Alaska east of Kodiak, caused brisk southeasterly winds across the Alaska Peninsula and portions of the southwest Alaskan coast. Wind gusts reached 40 mph at Cold Bay on both Thursday and Friday. At Cape Newenham wind gusts peaked at 59 mph Thursday.
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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- Tornado in Georgia, March 6, 1996
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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: 5540317.