High Wind, Glacier Bay
- When
- February 15, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 15, 1997
Gusty northwest winds reached 40 mph at Kodiak.
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.
Gusty northwest winds reached 40 mph at Kodiak.
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
- High Surf in Hawaii, February 15 to 17, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 15, 1997
- High Wind in Colorado, February 15, 1997
- Flood in Virginia, February 15 to 17, 1997
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 1997
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: 5588751.