High Wind, Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound to Dixon Entrance
- When
- February 11, 3:25 PM AST to February 12, 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound to Dixon Entrance forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 11 to 12, 1998
High winds occurred with the passage of a very intense occlusion in the southern inner channels. The Ketchikan airport recorded a peak wind of 65kt.
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 AJK wrote it up.
High winds occurred with the passage of a very intense occlusion in the southern inner channels. The Ketchikan airport recorded a peak wind of 65kt.
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
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, February 11, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Utah, February 11, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 11, 1998
- High Wind in Tennessee, February 11, 1998
- Flooding in Missouri, February 11 to 13, 1998
- Hail in South Carolina, February 11, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, February 11, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, February 11, 1998
- High Wind in Arkansas, February 11, 1998
- High Wind in Kentucky, February 11, 1998
- High Wind in Arkansas, February 11, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 11, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 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: 5638620.