High Wind, Dixon Entrance to Cape Decision-Coastal Area
- When
- December 27, 1:15 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Dixon Entrance to Cape Decision-Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, December 27, 1997
High winds occurred over the southern outer coast ahead of a strong occluded front. The peak wind recorded at Hydaberg was 51kt.
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 AJK wrote it up.
High winds occurred over the southern outer coast ahead of a strong occluded front. The peak wind recorded at Hydaberg was 51kt.
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
- Tornado in Florida, December 27, 1997
- Cold in New Mexico, December 27, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Florida, December 27, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 31, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 30, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 27, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 31, 1997
- Tornado in Florida, December 27, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, December 27, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 27 to 31, 1997
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in South Dakota, December 27 to 28, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, December 27, 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: 5623885.