Alert archive / Alaska / High Wind Watches / 2023
High Wind Watches in Alaska, December 2023
5 high wind watches in December 2023. 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 in December 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- December 7, 20231 high wind watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Alaska Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 2:24 PM AKST | High Wind Watch | AJK | Ketchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, City and Borough of Wrangell | 19 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:14 PM AKST | High Wind Watch | AJK | Juneau City and, Ketchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Skagway Municipality | 37 hr |
| Dec 21, 12:24 PM AKST | High Wind Watch | AJK | Ketchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Sitka City and | 27 hr |
| Dec 22, 5:39 AM AKST | High Wind Watch | AFG | Denali | 9 hr |
| Dec 22, 9:51 PM AKST | High Wind Watch | AFC | 28 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.