High Wind, Aleutian Islands
- When
- March 20, 6:00 PM AST to March 21, 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- Aleutian Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 20 to 21, 1998
A moderate front, associated with a strong 972mb low just northeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, brought strong southerly winds to the Aleutians. Gusts reached 58 mph at Shemya late Friday and early Saturday just prior to frontal passage.
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 972mb low just northeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, brought strong southerly winds to the Aleutians. Gusts reached 58 mph at Shemya late Friday and early Saturday just prior to frontal passage.
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 in Georgia, March 20, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Virginia, March 20, 1998
- Flood in Florida, March 20 to 31, 1998
- Storm Surge in Ohio, March 20 to 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 20, 1998
- Flood in Florida, March 20, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, March 20 to 21, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 20, 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: 5631065.