High Wind, Juneau Borough-Admiralty Island-Icy Strait Area
- When
- January 18, 5:45 PM AST to 11:50 PM AST
- Where
- Juneau Borough-Admiralty Island-Icy Strait Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, January 18, 1998
A strong arctic high center in the Yukon helped produce strong outflow (gap) winds in downtown Juneau. Both reporting stations in the downtown area-- Mayflower Island and the rock dump-- recorded peak winds of 56kt.
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.
A strong arctic high center in the Yukon helped produce strong outflow (gap) winds in downtown Juneau. Both reporting stations in the downtown area-- Mayflower Island and the rock dump-- recorded peak winds of 56kt.
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
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- High Wind in Oregon, January 18, 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: 5638613.