High Wind, Eastern Baranof Island and Southern Admiralty Island
- When
- January 28, 7:00 AM AST to January 29, 3:00 AM AST
- Where
- Eastern Baranof Island and Southern Admiralty Island forecast zone
- Measured
- 49 kt (56 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, January 28 to 29, 1997
Strong high pressure over Far East Russia and a storm moving into the Gulf of Alaska caused strong winds at Zone 24: Gambell 37 kts, g48 kts; Tin City 38 kts, g 49 kts.
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 AFG wrote it up.
Strong high pressure over Far East Russia and a storm moving into the Gulf of Alaska caused strong winds at Zone 24: Gambell 37 kts, g48 kts; Tin City 38 kts, g 49 kts.
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
- Cold in Illinois, January 28, 1997
- Cold in Illinois, January 28, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, January 28, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, January 28, 1997
- Winter Storm in Maine, January 28, 1997
- Winter Storm in Montana, January 28, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 28, 1997
- High Wind in Massachusetts, January 28, 1997
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 28, 1997
- Hail in Mississippi, January 28, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, January 28, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 28, 1997
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: 5586610.