Blizzard, St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast
- When
- December 30, 6:00 PM AST to December 31, 1:00 AM AST
- Where
- St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast forecast zone
Blizzard in Alaska, December 30 to 31, 1997
The weather front associated with a low pressure center in the northwest Bering Sea moved north over Saint Lawrence Island producing Blizzard conditions at Gambell and Savoonga, but not over the Bering Strait Coast.
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.
The weather front associated with a low pressure center in the northwest Bering Sea moved north over Saint Lawrence Island producing Blizzard conditions at Gambell and Savoonga, but not over the Bering Strait Coast.
Event by event
1 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Blizzard
- Sustained winds or frequent gusts of 35 mph or more with falling or blowing snow that cuts visibility below a quarter mile for three hours or longer.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Illinois, December 30, 1997
- Heavy Snow in New York, December 30, 1997
- High Wind in Nebraska, December 30, 1997
- Winter Storm in Tennessee, December 30 to 31, 1997
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, December 30 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in South Dakota, December 30, 1997
- Lake-Effect Snow in Michigan, December 30 to 31, 1997
- Winter Weather in Illinois, December 30, 1997
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, December 30 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in Kansas, December 30, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Indiana, December 30, 1997
- Winter Storm in Virginia, December 30 to 31, 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: 5620281.