High Wind, Central Gulf Coast
- When
- January 25, 9:00 PM AST to January 26, 11:00 AM AST
- Where
- Central Gulf Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 71 kt (82 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 25 to 26, 1999
A 'triple point' low developed about 90 miles northeast of Kodiak late Monday, moving to 60 miles southeast of Middleton Island late Tuesday morning with a frontal system arcing east and southeast into the extreme eastern Gulf of Alaska. East wind reached 82 mph at Middleton Island at 6:15 am Tuesday as the low moved by.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 'triple point' low developed about 90 miles northeast of Kodiak late Monday, moving to 60 miles southeast of Middleton Island late Tuesday morning with a frontal system arcing east and southeast into the extreme eastern Gulf of Alaska. East wind reached 82 mph at Middleton Island at 6:15 am Tuesday as the low moved by.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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: 5678367.