High Wind, Cook Inlet
- When
- July 25, 12:00 AM AST to 10:00 PM AST
- Where
- Cook Inlet forecast zone
- Measured
- 39 kt (45 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, July 25, 1998
A weakening front, moving into Prince William Sound early Saturday, brought channelled wind gusts of 45 mph to Upper Anchorage hillside areas.
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 AFC wrote it up.
A weakening front, moving into Prince William Sound early Saturday, brought channelled wind gusts of 45 mph to Upper Anchorage hillside areas.
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
- Heavy Rain in Utah, July 25, 1998
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 25, 1998
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 25, 1998
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 25, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Colorado, July 25, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 25, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, July 25 to 29, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 25, 1998
- Waterspouts in Michigan, July 25 to 26, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 25, 1998
- Hail in Arkansas, July 25, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, July 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: 5649691.