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High Wind in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
High Wind October 12, 2024 · Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
What the National Weather Service wrote
Marine Exchange stations in downtown Ketchikan measured multiple gusts in excess of 60 mph on Saturday October 12th. The peak wind gust of 63 mph was measured at Salmon Landing at 133pm AKDT. Local officials in Ketchikan reported at 233pm AKDT that a section of road was closed due to tree damage. Earlier, as the warm front passed, this Salmon Landing location also had a single peak gust of 62 mph at 104am AKDT, but no other locations had high winds at that time.
The wider storm
A storm force frontal system caused two rounds of high winds over the outer coast and Southern Inner Channels.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1221244. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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