High Wind, Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula
- When
- April 22, 12:00 AM AST to 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, April 22, 1999
Gusts across Kodiak Island, as recorded by the Booth Lake RAWS, reached 61 mph between noon and 3pm Thursday. along with rain and snow.
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 AFC wrote it up.
A moderate to strong front, moving northeastward through the Gulf of Alaska, was preceded by brisk east to north winds.Gusts across Kodiak Island, as recorded by the Booth Lake RAWS, reached 61 mph between noon and 3pm Thursday. Adjusted ASOS wind gusts of 64 mph, from the north, were reported at the Kodiak ASOS Thursday afternoon...along with rain and snow. the Coast Guard situation report received Thursday morning, mentioned a medevac at Old Harbor very early Thursday...reporting winds there as "Wind N/40-50kts" (46-58 mph).Middleton Island recorded pre-frontal, easterly winds (adjusted for ASOS under-reporting problems) as high as 81 mph Thursday afternoon between 2:35 pm and 2:55 pm. Frontal passage, which marked an abrupt end to the wind, occurred in and around Prince William Sound between 4 and 8 pm as the front continued north and northeast inland.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Central Gulf Coast
- When
- April 22, 4:00 AM AST to 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Central Gulf Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
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The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Utah, April 22 to 23, 1999
- Flooding in Missouri, April 22 to 30, 1999
- Flooding in Iowa, April 22 to 27, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, April 22, 1999
- Flooding in Kansas, April 22, 1999
- High Wind in Colorado, April 22 to 23, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Missouri, April 22, 1999
- High Wind in California, April 22 to 23, 1999
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, April 22, 1999
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, April 22 to 24, 1999
- Winter Storm in Colorado, April 22 to 23, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 22, 1999
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, April 1999
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: 5689789, 5689790.