High Wind, Juneau Borough-Admiralty Island-Icy Strait Area
- When
- March 8, 6:00 AM AST to March 9, 11:00 AM AST
- Where
- Juneau Borough-Admiralty Island-Icy Strait Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 48 kt (55 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, March 8 to 9, 1998
Strong gap winds (known locally as Taku winds) occurred in downtown Juneau as a result of a tight pressure gradient between a deep low in the Northeast Pacific and a strong arctic high in the Yukon. The peak wind recorded during the event was 48 kt at Mayflower Island.
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 AJK wrote it up.
Strong gap winds (known locally as Taku winds) occurred in downtown Juneau as a result of a tight pressure gradient between a deep low in the Northeast Pacific and a strong arctic high in the Yukon. The peak wind recorded during the event was 48 kt at Mayflower Island.
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
- Flash Flood in Alabama, March 8, 1998
- Flooding in Georgia, March 8 to 21, 1998
- Winter Storm in Illinois, March 8 to 9, 1998
- Flooding in Alabama, March 8 to 17, 1998
- Tornadoes in South Carolina, March 8, 1998
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 8, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, March 8, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 8, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Massachusetts, March 8 to 13, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Florida, March 8, 1998
- Flooding in Georgia, March 8 to 14, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 8, 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: 5639808.