High Wind in Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound To Dixon Entrance, Alaska

The low that brought high winds to Southeast Alaska beginning on Friday night January 3, stalled off shore. A series of frontal waves rotating around the Low swept up through the Panhandle on Sunday January 5. One of these frontal waves moved up through the extreme Southern Panhandle in the morning. Once again advisory criteria winds (> 40 mph) occurred throughout the Panhandle. In a few areas peak wind gusts reached warning levels (> 60 mph) and caused some minor...mainly tree...damage. Peak wind gusts to 69 mph were measured on top of the Ketchikan airport terminal. The Hydaburg AWOS recorded a peak wind gust to 74 mph. On the remote southern part of Kuiu Island, peak wind gusts to 60 mph were also recorded.