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

High Wind January 25, 2016 – January 26, 2016 · Inner Channels From Kupreanof Island To Etolin Island, Alaska

71 mph

Estimated gust (62 kt)

$1K

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Public Radio in Wrangell reported power outages and very strong winds on 1/26.

The wider storm

A Hurricane Force low was well established over the western Gulf on the night of 1/25. This system was so large that it had a strong frontal system in the eastern Gulf. A series of gale force to storm force lows developed along this system that moved northward along the outer coast then recurved back into the western Gulf. One of these systems caused extensive damage in the Edna Bay harbor late on 1/25

wrecking boats in the harbor. Max gusts in these systems were 75 to 80 mph.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 617274. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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