High Wind, Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula
- When
- April 6, 1:00 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
High Wind in Alaska, April 6, 1999
Another trough moving through the area brought gusty northwest winds. Adjusted ASOS gusts reached 59 mph at Kodiak late Tuesday morning into Tuesday afternoon, and 52 mph at Cold Bay just after noon 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.
Another trough moving through the area brought gusty northwest winds. Adjusted ASOS gusts reached 59 mph at Kodiak late Tuesday morning into Tuesday afternoon, and 52 mph at Cold Bay just after noon Tuesday. The trough was locally accompanied by heavy snow showers.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- April 6, 9:00 AM AST to 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 45 kt (52 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Iowa, April 6 to 15, 1999
- High Wind in Ohio, April 6, 1999
- High Wind in Ohio, April 6, 1999
- High Wind in Ohio, April 6, 1999
- Strong Wind in Michigan, April 6, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, April 6 to 7, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 6 to 7, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, April 6, 1999
- Flood in North Dakota, April 6 to 15, 1999
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 15, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, April 6, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, April 6, 1999
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: 5689662, 5689661.