High Wind, Tanana Valley
- When
- March 17, 1:00 PM AST to 5:00 PM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 47 kt (54 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 17, 1998
A weather front moved north across the Alaska Range, producing strong southerly winds for a time at Healy (maximum gust 47 kt) and Delta Junction (maximum gust 43 kt).
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 moved north across the Alaska Range, producing strong southerly winds for a time at Healy (maximum gust 47 kt) and Delta Junction (maximum gust 43 kt).
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
- Ice Storm in Iowa, March 17, 1998
- Flooding in Alabama, March 17, 1998
- Winter Storm in Utah, March 17 to 18, 1998
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, March 17 to 19, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 17, 1998
- Flood in Florida, March 17, 1998
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, March 17 to 18, 1998
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 17 to 18, 1998
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 17 to 18, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 17, 1998
- Hail in New Mexico, March 17, 1998
- Rip Current in Florida, March 17, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 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: 5632195.