High Wind, Hood Canal/Kitsap Peninsula
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Hood Canal/Kitsap Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind in Washington, January 28 to 29, 1999
Sustained winds of 40 mph were reported from spotters in Bremerton and Lyman. There were also gusts to 75 mph reported in Bellingham and from the Hood Canal Bridge, which closed for about 6 hours.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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 mph were reported from spotters in Bremerton and Lyman. There were also gusts to 75 mph reported in Bellingham and from the Hood Canal Bridge, which closed for about 6 hours. At one point there were about 50,000 Puget Sound area customers without power. Ferries were running late or not at all, a few trees fell on houses and part of the Ocasta school roof in Grays Harbor County was blown off.
Event by event
9 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Admiralty Inlet Area
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Admiralty Inlet Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind, Everett and Vicinity
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Everett and Vicinity forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind, Southwest Interior
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Southwest Interior forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind, Central Coast
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Central Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind, Seattle Metropolitan Area
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Seattle Metropolitan Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind, Tacoma Area
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Tacoma Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind, Northwest Interior
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Northwest Interior forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind, Western Whatcom
- When
- January 28, 10:35 PM PST to January 29, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Western Whatcom forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
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
- Flash Flood in Texas, January 28, 1999
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, January 28, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, January 28 to 29, 1999
- High Wind in Oregon, January 28 to 29, 1999
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 28 to 29, 1999
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Hampshire, January 28 to 29, 1999
- Winter Weather in Maine, January 28 to 29, 1999
- Winter Storm in Oklahoma, January 28 to 29, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 28, 1999
- Heavy Rain in Louisiana, January 28 to 30, 1999
- High Wind in Montana, January 28 to 29, 1999
- High Wind in Washington, January 28 to 29, 1999
More
Every storm in Washington in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, January 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: 5681577, 5681578, 5681579, 5681580, 5681581, 5681582, 5681583, 5681584, 5681585.