High Wind, Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula
- When
- August 30, 12:00 AM AST to August 31, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
High Wind in Alaska, August 30 to 31, 1998
Wind gusts up to 51 mph from the northeast were reported around the city of Kodiak on the 30th and 60 mph on the 31st..
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.
Wind gusts up to 51 mph from the northeast were reported around the city of Kodiak on the 30th and 60 mph on the 31st..
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 Georgia, August 30 to 31, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, August 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, August 30, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, August 30, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 30, 1998
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, August 30, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 30, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 30, 1998
- Flood and Hail in Arizona, August 30, 1998
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: 5658427.