High Wind, Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula
- When
- October 16, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 38 kt (44 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
High Wind in Alaska, October 16, 1998
Wind gusts reached 45 mph at the Kodiak ASOS.
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.
Wind gusts reached 45 mph at the Kodiak ASOS.
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 and Hail in Kansas, October 16, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, October 16, 1998
- Hail in Colorado, October 16, 1998
- High Wind in California, October 16, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, October 16, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, October 16, 1998
- Wildfire in California, October 16 to 24, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, October 16, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, October 16 to 17, 1998
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, October 16 to 17, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, October 16, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, October 16, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, October 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: 5668917.