High Wind, Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula
- When
- January 17, 9:00 AM AST to January 18, 10:00 AM AST
- Where
- Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, January 17 to 18, 1998
1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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
- Winter Weather in Illinois, January 17, 1998
- High Surf in California, January 17 to 20, 1998
- Winter Weather in Missouri, January 17, 1998
- Winter Weather in Kentucky, January 17, 1998
- Blizzard in Colorado, January 17 to 18, 1998
- Heavy Snow and Hail in Idaho, January 17, 1998
- High Wind in Colorado, January 17, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 17 to 18, 1998
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, January 17, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, January 17, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, January 17, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, January 17, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 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: 5627323.