High Wind in Salisbury Sound To Cape Fairweather Coastal Area, Alaska

Although there were no land stations available to measure surface wind, a nearby marine observation at Cape Spencer had numerous observations of sustained wind in the upper 40s (knots) with a peak wind of 69 KT.

On the afternoon of 11.29 a hurricane force low moved into the Eastern Aleutians with a secondary low beginning to develop well to the south. A strong associated front caused an extreme fetch of southerlies over the central and eastern Gulf of Alaska by early on 11.30. On this front the second low rapidly developed with strong surface pressure gradients along the Eastern gulf coast between Salisbury Sound and Cape Suckling. The storm redeveloped well into the interior of Canada causing storm force westerlies to follow on 12.2.