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High Wind Watch 11, NWS Anchorage, AK
NWS Anchorage, AK issued this high wind watch at Dec 25, 2025, 6:35 PM AKST for Chugach Census Area, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska. It took effect at Dec 27, 2025, 3:00 PM AKST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 25, 2025, 6:35 PM AKST (03:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2025, 3:00 PM AKST
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2025, 1:41 PM AKST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Anchorage, AK
Counties Chugach Census Area, AK, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK
The radar
The Kenai radar (PAHG), 209 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Dec 25, 5:36 PM AKST, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 5:36 PM AKST, 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Anchorage, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 3:42 PM AKST | Storm Warning | AFC | 48 hr | |
| Dec 25, 3:52 PM AKST | Gale Warning | AFC | 5 days | |
| Dec 25, 3:52 PM AKST | Small Craft Advisory | AFC | 24 hr | |
| Dec 25, 3:52 PM AKST | Storm Warning | AFC | 59 hr | |
| Dec 25, 3:52 PM AKST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | AFC | 4 days | |
| Dec 26, 3:40 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFC | 72 hr | |
| Dec 26, 3:52 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFC | 61 hr | |
| Dec 26, 3:52 AM AKST | Small Craft Advisory | AFC | 61 hr | |
| Dec 26, 3:52 AM AKST | Storm Warning | AFC | 61 hr | |
| Dec 26, 1:41 PM AKST | High Wind Warning | AFC | Chugach Census Area, Matanuska-Susitna | 3 days |
| Dec 26, 2:24 PM AKST | Gale Warning | AFC | 50 hr | |
| Dec 26, 2:24 PM AKST | Small Craft Advisory | AFC | 50 hr | |
| Dec 26, 2:24 PM AKST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | AFC | 50 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.