High Wind in Southern Inner Channels, Alaska

High Wind December 23, 2020 · Southern Inner Channels, Alaska

74 mph

Measured gust (64 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Mesonet Sensor at the Ketchikan Airport reported wind gust of 74 mph.

The wider storm

A strong front with damaging southerly winds and a long fetch of moisture moved over SE Alaska on Wednesday the 23rd. A wave formed along the front and caused moisture and winds to last the longest over the southern inner channels and Hyder.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 934562. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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