High Wind, Central Gulf Coast
- When
- December 13, 6:00 PM AST to December 16, 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Central Gulf Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 40 kt (46 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, December 13 to 16, 1997
both on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula.
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.
Cold, arctic air winds along the north and west side of a nearly stationary 980mb low parked near Middleton Island gusted between 45 and 50 mph at Whittier and Seward...both on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula.
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
- Flash Flooding in Florida, December 13 to 14, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Florida, December 13, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 13 to 17, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 13 to 19, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 13 to 17, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 13 to 17, 1997
- Flash Flood in Florida, December 13, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 13 to 31, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 13 to 20, 1997
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 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: 5620810.