High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- March 12, 12:00 PM AST to 11:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 45 kt (52 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 12, 1998
A moderate front, associated with a strong 954mb low in the extreme northcentral Pacific moved across the Alaska Peninsula late Thursday. Easterly wind gusts reached 52 mph in advance of the front.
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, associated with a strong 954mb low in the extreme northcentral Pacific moved across the Alaska Peninsula late Thursday. Easterly wind gusts reached 52 mph in advance of the front.
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
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: 5631059.