High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- September 12, 1:30 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, September 12, 1996
Strong wind gusts were reported at the Akutan school on Thursday as a strong, North Pacific low moved east. Gusts reached close to 70 mph at 1:30 pm.
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.
Strong wind gusts were reported at the Akutan school on Thursday as a strong, North Pacific low moved east. Gusts reached close to 70 mph at 1:30 pm.
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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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: 5563539.