High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- April 5, 9:00 AM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, April 5 to 6, 1999
A post-frontal, trough passed through the Alaska Peninsula late Monday on its way through Kodiak Island early Tuesday. Adjusted northwest wind gusts reached 63 mph across the Alaska Peninsula at Cold Bay late Monday and very early Tuesday.
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 post-frontal, trough passed through the Alaska Peninsula late Monday on its way through Kodiak Island early Tuesday. The trough was marked by gusty northwest winds across both areas, as increasingly unstable conditions allowed stronger upper level winds to mix downward to the surface.Adjusted ASOS gusts reached 59 mph across Kodiak Island (highest measured at the Kodiak Coast Guard Base airport) Tuesday.Adjusted northwest wind gusts reached 63 mph across the Alaska Peninsula at Cold Bay late Monday and very early Tuesday.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula
- When
- April 6, 12:00 AM AST to 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 5 to 9, 1999
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes in Illinois, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 5, 1999
- Tornado in Missouri, April 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, April 5, 1999
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, April 5, 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: 5689659, 5689660.