High Wind Watches in Alaska
659 high wind watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 659
- Busiest year
- 201152 high wind watches
- Average year
- 30over 22 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area30
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area21
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough20
- Denali Borough16
- Sitka City and Borough14
- Juneau City and Borough13
- Skagway Municipality10
- North Slope Borough10
- Nome Census Area9
- Yakutat City and Borough6
- Aleutians West Census Area6
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area5
- City and Borough of Wrangell4
- Chugach Census Area4
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough4
- Haines Borough3
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area3
- Northwest Arctic Borough3
- Kusilvak Census Area3
- Kodiak Island Borough3
- Petersburg Borough2
- Aleutians East Borough1
- Bethel Census Area1
- Anchorage Municipality1
- Lake and Peninsula Borough1
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 1:20 PM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | Denali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 5 days |
| Sep 18, 2:14 PM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AJK | Haines, Skagway Municipality, Yakutat City and | 20 hr |
| Sep 13, 10:12 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 34 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:58 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | North Slope | 23 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:56 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | Nome Census Area | 26 hr |
| Jul 31, 1:19 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | Denali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 36 hr |
| Jul 12, 1:56 PM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 24 hr |
| May 24, 12:32 PM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 19 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:37 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | Denali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 11 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:55 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFC | Aleutians West Census Area | 24 hr |
| Mar 20, 5:46 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFC | Matanuska-Susitna | 9 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:34 PM AKST | High Wind Watch | AFC | Kodiak Island | 19 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.