High Wind, Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula
- When
- November 24, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 38 kt (44 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, November 24, 1997
Brisk northwest winds gusting to 44 mph were observed at the Kodiak Coast Guard base airport Monday, as cold air poured southeastward into the Gulf of Alaska from the southwest Alaskan mainland.
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.
Brisk northwest winds gusting to 44 mph were observed at the Kodiak Coast Guard base airport Monday, as cold air poured southeastward into the Gulf of Alaska from the southwest Alaskan mainland.
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
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: 5620691.