High Wind, Koyukuk-Upper Kobuk Valleys
- When
- February 6, 12:00 PM AST to February 8, 10:00 AM AST
- Where
- Koyukuk-Upper Kobuk Valleys forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 6 to 8, 1998
Strong winds gusting as high as 50 kt were reported at the State of Alaska Department of Transportation Road Maintenance Camp on the Dalton Highway at Chandalar Shelf. Begin and end times are very approximate.
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.
Strong winds gusting as high as 50 kt were reported at the State of Alaska Department of Transportation Road Maintenance Camp on the Dalton Highway at Chandalar Shelf. Begin and end times are very approximate. The highest wind reported at the Anaktuvuk Pass AWOS during this time was a gust to 23 kts.
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 and Flash Flood in California, February 6 to 9, 1998
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, February 6, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, February 6, 1998
- High Wind in California, February 6, 1998
- High Wind in Nevada, February 6, 1998
- Tornado in Florida, February 6, 1998
- Flooding in Nevada, February 6, 1998
- High Wind and Heavy Rain in California, February 6, 1998
- High Wind in California, February 6, 1998
- Winter Weather in Nebraska, February 6, 1998
- Winter Weather in Virginia, February 6, 1998
- High Wind in California, February 6, 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: 5630451.