High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- August 4, 12:00 PM AST to 7:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, August 4, 1997
A moderate frontal low in the eastern Aleutians was preceded by brisk southeasterly winds. where "channeling" causes supergradient winds.
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 AFC wrote it up.
A moderate frontal low in the eastern Aleutians was preceded by brisk southeasterly winds. Gusts reached 40 mph at Cold Bay...where "channeling" causes supergradient winds.
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
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 4, 1997
- Hail in Kentucky, August 4, 1997
- Flash Flood in Nevada, August 4 to 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 4, 1997
- Hail in Kentucky, August 4, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 4, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Connecticut, August 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 4, 1997
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 4, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 4, 1997
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, August 1997
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: 5601817.