High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- June 25, 12:00 AM AST to 6:00 AM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 39 kt (45 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, June 25, 1998
A moderate front approaching the area produced brisk southeasterly winds along the western Alaska Peninsula. Wind gusts up to 45 mph were recorded at Cold Bay between 3 and 4am Thursday.
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 moderate front approaching the area produced brisk southeasterly winds along the western Alaska Peninsula. Wind gusts up to 45 mph were recorded at Cold Bay between 3 and 4am Thursday.
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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 25 to 26, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
- Heat in New Jersey, June 25 to 26, 1998
- Heat in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
- Heat in Delaware, June 25 to 26, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 25, 1998
- Flash Flood in New York, June 25 to 26, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, June 25, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, June 25, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
- Hail in Idaho, June 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, June 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: 5641922.