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High Wind in Dixon Entrance To Cape Decision Coastal Area, Alaska

High Wind January 17, 2016 · Dixon Entrance To Cape Decision Coastal Area, Alaska

64 mph

Estimated gust (56 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Hydaburg AWOS measrued gusts to 59 MPH. Cape Decision (marine) had gusts to 62 MPH. Surface analysis showed very strong surface pressure gradients that affected the entire outer coast of Prince of Wales Island.

The wider storm

A rapidly deepening low pressure system developed on a front off Vancouver Island early on 1/17. This low intensified to storm force 964 MB off Cape Decision midday on the 1/17 then moved northwest into the western Gulf that Sunday night.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 617266. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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