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High Wind Watches in Alaska, 2025

33 high wind watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
33
Busiest month
January9 high wind watches
Busiest day
January 5, 20253 high wind watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 1:43 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFGNome Census Area22 hr
Jan 5, 2:31 AM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFGNorth Slope10 hr
Jan 5, 3:57 AM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFC19 hr
Jan 5, 11:55 AM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFGSoutheast Fairbanks Census Area27 hr
Jan 8, 7:50 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFGDenali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area64 hr
Jan 10, 12:20 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFC35 hr
Jan 16, 4:48 AM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFGSoutheast Fairbanks Census Area10 hr
Jan 22, 3:53 AM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFGDenali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area26 hr
Jan 24, 4:46 AM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFC9 hr
Feb 24, 3:13 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAJKKetchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area24 hr
Mar 5, 3:16 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAJKPrince of Wales-Hyder Census Area22 hr
Mar 16, 3:28 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAJKPrince of Wales-Hyder Census Area20 hr
Mar 25, 12:18 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAJKJuneau City and18 hr
Apr 14, 12:00 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAFGDenali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area26 hr
Apr 14, 2:57 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAFCAnchorage Municipality15 hr
Aug 21, 2:42 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAFGNorth Slope21 hr
Sep 15, 2:38 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAJKHoonah-Angoon Census Area, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Sitka City and, Yakutat City and21 hr
Sep 20, 6:53 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAJKJuneau City and, Ketchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Sitka City and17 hr
Sep 24, 1:42 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAJKKetchikan Gateway, Petersburg, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, City and Borough of Wrangell20 hr
Oct 5, 9:37 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAFGDenali, Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area15 hr
Oct 9, 10:56 AM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAFGDenali, Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, North Slope, Northwest Arctic, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area and 1 more48 hr
Oct 9, 2:56 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAFCAleutians West Census Area, Bethel Census Area21 hr
Oct 19, 1:06 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAJKPrince of Wales-Hyder Census Area21 hr
Oct 26, 1:20 PM AKDTHigh Wind WatchAJKKetchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area26 hr
Nov 5, 3:50 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFCAleutians West Census Area22 hr
Nov 6, 3:01 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAJKKetchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area22 hr
Nov 17, 12:49 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAJKKetchikan Gateway, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Sitka City and24 hr
Dec 11, 3:15 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFCChugach Census Area14 hr
Dec 12, 2:01 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFCMatanuska-Susitna21 hr
Dec 15, 12:47 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFCAleutians East, Lake and Peninsula15 hr
Dec 17, 12:14 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAJKJuneau City and52 hr
Dec 18, 12:26 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFCChugach Census Area, Matanuska-Susitna21 hr
Dec 25, 6:35 PM AKSTHigh Wind WatchAFCChugach Census Area, Matanuska-Susitna19 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 5, 20253high wind watches
  2. April 14, 20252high wind watches
  3. October 9, 20252high wind watches
  4. December 12, 20252high wind watches
  5. January 4, 20251high wind watches
  6. January 9, 20251high wind watches
  7. January 10, 20251high wind watches
  8. January 16, 20251high wind watches
  9. January 22, 20251high wind watches
  10. January 24, 20251high wind watches
  11. February 25, 20251high wind watches
  12. March 6, 20251high wind watches

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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. Rebuilt daily.