High Wind in Annette Island, Alaska

High Wind October 12, 2024 · Annette Island, Alaska

62 mph

Measured gust (54 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

A peak wind gust of 62 mph was measured at Melson Lake at 320pm AKDT. Earlier, with the warm front. there with higher gusts at Yellow Hill, at 479ft elevation. The Metlakatla AWOS station lost connection and stopped reporting after 4am, likely a result of the high winds.

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 1221245. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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