High Wind, Tanana Valley
- When
- May 17, 2:00 PM AST to 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 17, 1998
Strong winds through the Alaska Range brought gusts to 60 mph at Healy, and gusts to 53 mph at Delta Junction.
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.
Strong winds through the Alaska Range brought gusts to 60 mph at Healy, and gusts to 53 mph at Delta Junction.
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
- Rip Current in Florida, May 17, 1998
- Rip Current in Florida, May 17, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 17, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, May 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 17, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, May 17, 1998
- Hail in North Carolina, May 17, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, May 17, 1998
- Hail in South Carolina, May 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 17, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, May 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: 5647366.