On the 26th strong winds moved across Chuuk State. Winds started picking up at the National Weather Service Office on the island of Weno at around 1320 and died down by 1830.
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.
The episode as NWS GUA wrote it up.
On the 26th strong winds moved across Chuuk State. Winds started picking up at the National Weather Service Office on the island of Weno at around 1320 and died down by 1830. A peak wind of 54 mph occurred at 1632 at the Weather Service Office. Island power went off at 1518 and was restored by 1740. A little less than 10 percent of the banana trees around the east to southeast exposures of the island was damaged. Low level wind convergence aided by upper level divergence helped to produce showers across the region. these showers produced the strong and gusty winds across Chuuk State.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A little less than10 percent of the banana trees around the east to southeast exposures of the island was damaged
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