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High Wind in Inner Channels From Kupreanof Island To Etolin Island, Alaska

High Wind April 28, 2015 · Inner Channels From Kupreanof Island To Etolin Island, Alaska

64 mph

Estimated gust (56 kt)

$10K

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Trained spotter Edna Bay gusts to 60 mph. Kake totem pole cracked at the top. Power outage Coffman Cove. Wrangell AWOS peak wind 63 mph at 0716 AKST.

The wider storm

An unseasonable storm hit the Southern Panhandle early on the morning of Tuesday April 28th. The low began to develop SSW of the Queen Charlotte Islands on Monday afternoon deepening to to 979 MB over Dixon Entrance early Tuesday morning. The center moved over Sitka by 9 AM then rapidly weakened over the Eastern gulf of Alaska Tuesday afternoon. Numerous reports of downed trees, power outages, and wind damage were reported particularly in Ketchikan. Gusts over 100 MPH were measured.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 564679. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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