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High Wind in Prince of Wales Island, Alaska

High Wind November 8, 2023 – November 9, 2023 · Prince of Wales Island, Alaska

63 mph
Measured gust (55 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Craig NWS weather station measured a peak gust of 60 mph at 1124pm on the 8th. On the opposite side of the island, a little over an hour later a wind gust of 63 mph was measured near Thorne Bay during frontal passage.

The wider storm

A storm force front associated with a low in the central Gulf moved through the panhandle.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1144797. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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