Name: High Wind in Alaska, June 9, 2006
Start: 2006-06-09T11:00
End: 2006-06-09T13:50
Location: Alaska

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 strong front moved to the Kenai Peninsula producing the typical strong wind through Portage Valley and along Turnagain Arm.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 9, 4:30 AM AST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 4:30 AM AST, 6 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA
530 AM ADT FRI JUN 9 2006

.DISCUSSION...
UPPER LEVEL LOW IS SPINNING JUST TO THE SOUTH OF COLD BAY WHILE AN
UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER EASTERN ALASKA AND THE EASTERN
GULF. THE ASSOCIATED NORTH PACIFIC SURFACE LOW CONTINUES TO SPIN
NORTH TOWARD THE AKPEN. RAIN AND STRONG WINDS FROM THE SYSTEM HAVE
SPREAD ACROSS THE ALEUTIAN CHAIN AND THE AKPEN AND OVER TO THE
PRIBILOFS AS WELL AS UP THROUGH THE GULF AND ALONG THE NORTHERN
COAST. THE PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN THIS LOW AND THE SURFACE RIDGE
TO THE EAST IS CREATING GUSTY WINDS IN SOME CHANNELED TERRAIN.
TURNAGAIN ARM HAS SEEN WINDS GUSTING MORE THAN 45 MPH THROUGH THE
NIGHT. KODIAK ISLAND AND ACROSS SHELIKOF STRAIT TO THE AKPEN HAS SEEN
WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH WITH THE FRONT BEING CLOSE BY.

MODELS INITIALIZED QUITE WELL AT THE SURFACE HOWEVER THE NAM WAS A
BIT SLOW IN THE UPPER LEVELS.

FOR THE EAST...AS THE SYSTEMS FRONT MOVES UP THE GULF TODAY EXPECT
CONTINUED RAIN ESPECIALLY ALONG THE NORTHERN GULF COAST AND ALONG THE
ALASKAN RANGE. OTHER INLAND AREAS WILL SEE RAIN HOWEVER MUCH LIGHTER
AND NOT AS WIDESPREAD. THE RAIN SHOULD STICK AROUND THE COAST AND THE
ALASKAN RANGE INTO SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE A DRYING TREND SPREADS FROM
THE BUILDING HIGH FROM THE EAST AND THE DEPARTING LOW TO THE WEST.
THE STRONG WINDS IN THE GULF WILL DIMINISH TONIGHT. EXPECT THE
TURNAGAIN ARM WINDS TO CONTINUE AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT HANGS AROUND
THROUGH SATURDAY.

OUT WEST...THE FRONTAL AND WRAPAROUND PRECIP FROM THE LOW WILL
CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE SOUTHWEST COAST AND AKPEN AS WELL AS THE
EASTERN ALEUTIANS AND PRIBILOFS THROUGH SATURDAY. ANOTHER NORTH
PACIFIC LOW WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE OF PRECIP FOR THE SOUTHWEST AND
AKPEN ON SUNDAY. A RIDGE ACROSS THE ALEUTIANS ON MONDAY WILL PROVIDE
CLEARER CONDITIONS.

FIRE WEATHER...CONDITIONS WILL MOST LIKELY APPROACH RED FLAG WARNING
LEVELS IN THE KUSKOKWIM VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO STRONG WINDS.
ANTICIPATE A WARNING BEING ISSUED LATER TODAY. CONDITIONS IN THE
COPPER RIVER DELTA WILL BE MARGINAL WITH GUSTY WINDS IN CHANNELED
TERRAIN HOWEVER A WARNING WILL MOST LIKELY NOT BE ISSUED.

.AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...NONE
MARINE...GALE 120 130 132 138 140 150 155 160 165 170 185
FIRE WEATHER...NONE

LR JUN 06

Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns

When: June 9, 11:00 AM AST to 1:50 PM AST
Where: Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns forecast zone
Measured: 82 kt (94 mph) measured gust
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

High Wind, Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek

When: June 9, 12:50 PM AST to 1:50 PM AST
Where: Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek forecast zone
Measured: 73 kt (84 mph) measured gust
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

More

Every storm in Alaska in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, June 2006

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: 5506785, 5506784.