High Wind, Juneau Borough-Admiralty Island-Icy Strait Area
- When
- February 6, 5:00 AM AST to February 7, 7:45 PM AST
- Where
- Juneau Borough-Admiralty Island-Icy Strait Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 6 to 7, 1998
Brisk northeasterly winds produced by a strong arctic high in the Yukon occurred in the northern inner channels of the panhandle. Peak wind gusts recorded were 56kt at Mayflower Island, 52kt at the rock dump (downtown Juneau), 43kt at the federal building in Juneau, and 49kt at Skagway airport.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Brisk northeasterly winds produced by a strong arctic high in the Yukon occurred in the northern inner channels of the panhandle. Peak wind gusts recorded were 56kt at Mayflower Island, 52kt at the rock dump (downtown Juneau), 43kt at the federal building in Juneau, and 49kt at Skagway airport.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Lynn Canal-Glacier Bay
- When
- February 6, 5:00 AM AST to February 7, 7:45 PM AST
- Where
- Lynn Canal-Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 49 kt (56 mph)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Flooding in Nevada, February 6, 1998
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- Winter Weather in Nebraska, February 6, 1998
- Winter Weather in Virginia, February 6, 1998
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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: 5638617, 5638618.