High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- March 25, 12:00 PM AST to March 26, 6:00 AM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 42 kt (48 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 25 to 26, 1997
A moderate 972mb low moved northeast toward the Alaska Peninsula Tuesday, finally turning east into the Gulf of Alaska Wednesday where it began to weaken. producing wind gusts from 40 to near 50 mph across the entire Alaska Peninsula late Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
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 972mb low moved northeast toward the Alaska Peninsula Tuesday, finally turning east into the Gulf of Alaska Wednesday where it began to weaken. Brisk southeasterly winds preceded the front ahead of the low...producing wind gusts from 40 to near 50 mph across the entire Alaska Peninsula late Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
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: 5588769.