High Wind — Petersburg Borough, Alaska

2025-09-26 · Petersburg Borough, Alaska

Event narrative

Report with video showing a dugout at a ballfield in Petersburg being blown over at 304pm on the 26th. Another report from social media later that day of trees coming down near 9 mile Mitkof Highway, including a photo of a pine tree on a home. The report also said that the power was out with trees on the lines. The Petersburg COOP, located at the airport, checked the damaging wind box and measured a peak gust of 42kt at 406pm AKDT.

Wider weather episode

An unusually strong fall storm developed and moved northeast into the Gulf of Alaska during the early morning hours of Friday 9/26, with pressure falling to 962mph and with hurricane force winds observed on the south side of the low center. As the system progressed northeastward, winds along the coast from Prince of Wales northward towards Baranof Island increased with damaging winds reported. The system made landfall over the central panhandle Friday afternoon around 4pm, just north of Sitka, near Kruzof Island. Tree fall and damaging winds were also reported in the Petersburg Borough and on Admiralty Island that afternoon.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1295974. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.