High Wind, Aleutian Islands
- When
- December 8, 12:00 AM AST to December 9, 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Aleutian Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 45 kt (52 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, December 8 to 9, 1997
Pressure differences between strong high pressure in eastern Siberia and moderate low pressure in the eastern Bering Sea brought brisk northwest winds to the central and western Aleutians where speeds reached 52 mph.
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.
Pressure differences between strong high pressure in eastern Siberia and moderate low pressure in the eastern Bering Sea brought brisk northwest winds to the central and western Aleutians where speeds reached 52 mph.
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
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, December 8 to 11, 1997
- Winter Weather in Nebraska, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 8 to 10, 1997
- Tornado in California, December 8, 1997
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Winter Storm in Missouri, December 8, 1997
- Winter Weather in Illinois, December 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Winter Storm in Colorado, December 8 to 10, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, December 8, 1997
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, December 8 to 9, 1997
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, December 8 to 9, 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: 5620806.