High Wind, Central Gulf Coast
- When
- October 15, 12:00 AM AST to 9:00 AM AST
- Where
- Central Gulf Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, October 15, 1998
A moderate front crossed northwestward into the mainland from the northern Gulf of Alaska Thursday. Wind gusts reached close to 70 mph in portions of Prince William Sound, around Middleton Island and in the city of Cordova.
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 crossed northwestward into the mainland from the northern Gulf of Alaska Thursday. Wind gusts reached close to 70 mph in portions of Prince William Sound, around Middleton Island and in the city of Cordova.
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5668914.