High Wind, Eastern Chichagof Island
- When
- May 27, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Eastern Chichagof Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 48 kt (55 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 27, 1996
A moderate 998 mb low in the northcentral Pacific late Sunday and Monday curved north to Saint Paul Island just after 10 pm Monday. Wind gusts reached 55 mph at Cold Bay and 47 mph at Port Heiden.
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 998 mb low in the northcentral Pacific late Sunday and Monday curved north to Saint Paul Island just after 10 pm Monday. Wind gusts reached 55 mph at Cold Bay and 47 mph at Port Heiden.
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
- Tornado in Arkansas, May 27, 1996
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- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 27, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, May 27, 1996
- Flood in Nebraska, May 27 to 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 27, 1996
- Tornado in Iowa, May 27, 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: 5549116.