High Wind, St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast
- When
- August 30, 1:00 AM AST to August 31, 5:00 AM AST
- Where
- St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 44 kt (51 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, August 30 to 31, 1997
A low pressure system near Nunivak Island tracked slowly northeast and deepened to 983 mb during the event before weakening. a secondary center moved north toward Nome and dissipated on the 30th.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS AFG wrote it up.
A low pressure system near Nunivak Island tracked slowly northeast and deepened to 983 mb during the event before weakening. a secondary center moved north toward Nome and dissipated on the 30th. Maximum north winds at Gambell: 37 kts sustained, gusts 44 kts.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 30, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, August 30, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, August 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 30, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 30, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, August 30, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, August 30, 1997
- Tornado in Minnesota, August 30, 1997
- Waterspout in Michigan, August 30, 1997
- Waterspout in Ohio, August 30, 1997
- Waterspout in Ohio, August 30, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, August 30, 1997
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5611237.