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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Fairbanks, AK

January 5, 2025North Slope Borough, Alaska

NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this high wind watch at Jan 5, 2025, 2:31 AM AKST for North Slope Borough, Alaska. It took effect at Jan 6, 2025, 6:00 PM AKST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2025, 2:31 AM AKST (11:31 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 6, 2025, 6:00 PM AKST
Expired: Jan 5, 2025, 12:09 PM AKST
In force
Issued by: NWS Fairbanks, AK

County North Slope Borough, AK

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 Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Jan 4, 2:03 PM AKST, 12 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 2:03 PM AKST, 12 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 3:05 AM AKST	Brisk Wind Advisory	AFG		59 hr
Jan 5, 3:05 AM AKST	Gale Warning	AFG		3 days
Jan 5, 11:52 AM AKST	Winter Storm Watch	AFG	Denali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	27 hr
Jan 5, 11:55 AM AKST	High Wind Watch	AFG	Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	27 hr
Jan 5, 11:58 AM AKST	High Wind Warning	AFG	Nome Census Area	54 hr
Jan 5, 12:09 PM AKST	High Wind Warning	AFG	North Slope	54 hr
Jan 5, 1:07 PM AKST	Gale Warning	AFG		26 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.