High Wind, Tanana Valley
- When
- August 19, 12:00 PM AST to August 20, 10:00 AM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 49 kt (56 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
High Wind in Alaska, August 19 to 20, 1998
A storm in the Bering Sea caused strong winds across the Alaska Range, especially in Healy Canyon and Nearby Denali Park. Strongest winds reported were Healy: gusts to 51 mph, and at Polychrome Pass (Mile 46 Denali Park Road) in Denali Park, gusts to 56 mph were observed on a hand-held wind speed recorder by a NWS employee.
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.
A storm in the Bering Sea caused strong winds across the Alaska Range, especially in Healy Canyon and Nearby Denali Park. Strongest winds reported were Healy: gusts to 51 mph, and at Polychrome Pass (Mile 46 Denali Park Road) in Denali Park, gusts to 56 mph were observed on a hand-held wind speed recorder by a NWS employee.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 19, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 19, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 19, 1998
- Flood in Wyoming, August 19, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, August 19, 1998
- Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, August 19 to 20, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 19, 1998
- High Wind and Heavy Rain in Alaska, August 19 to 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 19, 1998
- Hail in Colorado, August 19, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, August 19, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 19, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, August 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: 5656471.