Cold/Wind Chill, Arctic Slope Coastal
- When
- December 30, 11:00 PM AST to December 31, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Arctic Slope Coastal forecast zone
Cold in Alaska, December 30 to 31, 1997
High pressure over the Beaufort Sea and moderate complex low pressure over southern Alaska produced winds over 20 mph and cold airtemperatures resulting in Wind Chill temperatures of 90 below over the western Arctic Coast between Lisburne and Icy Cape, notably at Point Lay. Event continued in Jan 1998.
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.
High pressure over the Beaufort Sea and moderate complex low pressure over southern Alaska produced winds over 20 mph and cold airtemperatures resulting in Wind Chill temperatures of 90 below over the western Arctic Coast between Lisburne and Icy Cape, notably at Point Lay. Event continued in Jan 1998.
Event by event
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Cold/Wind Chill
- Cold or wind chill below warning criteria that caused deaths, injuries or damage.
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: 5620282.