High Wind, Admiralty Inlet Area
- When
- November 12, 4:50 PM PST to 8:30 PM PST
- Where
- Admiralty Inlet Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind in Washington, November 12, 1998
Sustained winds of 40 to 50 mph hit most of Whidbey Island. A large tree was knocked down onto a main transmission line, which in turn knocked out power to over 5,500 electricity customers.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 SEW wrote it up.
Sustained winds of 40 to 50 mph hit most of Whidbey Island. A large tree was knocked down onto a main transmission line, which in turn knocked out power to over 5,500 electricity customers. It also damaged electrical wire, insulators and 5 power poles.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Western Whatcom
- When
- November 12, 4:50 PM PST to 8:30 PM PST
- Where
- Western Whatcom forecast zone
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5677248, 5677249.