After the storm on 10/12, a secondary low developed on the front and moved into Dixon Entrance on the afternoon of the 13th. This second low intensified as it recurved to Cape Spencer and caused hurricane force winds on 10/14 for the southern coast.
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.
The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
After the storm on 10/12, a secondary low developed on the front and moved into Dixon Entrance on the afternoon of the 13th. This second low intensified as it recurved to Cape Spencer and caused hurricane force winds on 10/14 for the southern coast. Widespread power outages and trees were downed for the southern Panhandle.
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hydaburg AWOS measured gusts to 78 MPH at 2056 AKST on 10/13. Plenty of gusts were in 50s and 60s until midnight.
Ketchikan airport ASOS measured gusts to 60 KT through midnight on 10/13-14. A nearby marine observation at Lincoln Rock had gusts in excess of 100 MPH.
Cape Decision light observed 69 KT at 2100 on 10/13. No land stations observed more than 50 MPH, but headlands in the Inner Channels had gusts to 70 MPH due to the extreme pressure gradients with this storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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