High Wind, Tanana Valley
- When
- April 13, 3:00 PM AST to April 14, 5:00 PM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Property damage
- $20,000
High Wind in Alaska, April 13 to 14, 1998
The weather front from a storm in Bristol Bay moved north over the Alaska Range causing strong winds. Healy reported gusts to 51 kts.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $20,000
- 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.
The weather front from a storm in Bristol Bay moved north over the Alaska Range causing strong winds. Healy reported gusts to 51 kts. Delta Junction reported gusts only to 44 kts, however a nearby Co-op Observer reported winds over 50 mph, causing a roof of a Barn to be blown off.
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
- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, April 13, 1998
- Hail in California, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Wildfire in Wisconsin, April 13, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 13, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 13 to 14, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, April 1998
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: 5637301.