High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- June 4, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 41 kt (47 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, June 4 to 5, 1998
Prefrontal winds gusted from 40 to 50 mph at a few "channelled" wind sites along the Alaska Peninsula, extreme northwestern Bristol Bay and Turnagain Arm and the Upper Anchorage hillside.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
Prefrontal winds gusted from 40 to 50 mph at a few "channelled" wind sites along the Alaska Peninsula, extreme northwestern Bristol Bay and Turnagain Arm and the Upper Anchorage hillside.
Event by event
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Bristol Bay Coastal
- When
- June 4, 6:00 PM AST to June 5, 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Bristol Bay Coastal forecast zone
- Measured
- 38 kt (44 mph)
High Wind, Cook Inlet
- When
- June 5, 12:00 AM AST to 11:00 PM AST
- Where
- Cook Inlet forecast zone
- Measured
- 38 kt (44 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 4 to 5, 1998
- Flood in Missouri, June 4, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 4 to 5, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 4, 1998
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 4, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 4, 1998
- Tornado in Arkansas, June 4, 1998
- Tornado and Heavy Snow in Utah, June 4 to 5, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 4, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4 to 5, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 4, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 4, 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: 5641830, 5641831, 5641832.