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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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