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High Wind in Dixon Entrance To Cape Decision Coastal Area, Alaska
High Wind January 15, 2017 – January 16, 2017 · Dixon Entrance To Cape Decision Coastal Area, Alaska
What the National Weather Service wrote
The Hydaburg AWOS reported a high wind gusts of 61 mph at 107pm Sunday. CDE 16/02z (15/5pm) 45g64kt = 52g74mph. CDEA2 16/0400 (15/7pm) 44g67kt = 51g77mph.
PAHY 16/0210z (15/510pm) peak gust of 50kt=58mph. No damage was reported.
The wider storm
A 968 MB low in the Western Gulf tracked NE toward Prince William Sound with a Storm force front Sunday afternoon and evening on 1/15. A secondary frontal wrap crossed into SE coastal waters Sunday evening 1/15, then over Southern Panhandle. Model 925 MB winds were 60-70 KT. Additionally, another sub-970 low redeveloped into the Yukon on Monday 1/16 around midday with strong pressure rises in Lynn Canal that increase the pressure gradient at Skagway and caused heavy snow with near blizzard conditions over the Klondike Highway early on Tuesday morning 1/17.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 667885. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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