High Wind, Tanana Valley
- When
- June 8, 6:00 AM AST to 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 44 kt (51 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
High Wind in Alaska, June 8, 1998
A weather front from a Bering Sea low pressure center moved north over the Alaska Range resulting in strong winds for a period of time at Delta Junction. Maximum winds at Delta Junction were 37 mph sustained, gust to 51 mph.
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 AFG wrote it up.
A weather front from a Bering Sea low pressure center moved north over the Alaska Range resulting in strong winds for a period of time at Delta Junction. Maximum winds at Delta Junction were 37 mph sustained, gust to 51 mph.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8 to 30, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 8, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, June 8 to 9, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, June 8 to 13, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 8, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 8, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 8, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 8, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 8, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, June 8, 1998
- Hail in Colorado, June 8, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 8 to 9, 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: 5649694.