High Wind, Glacier Bay
- When
- February 4, 12:00 AM AST to 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 40 kt (46 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 4, 1997
accompanied by a weather front east and southeast from the center. gusting near 45 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.
A moderate 970mb low curved north northwest toward Chignik along the eastern Alaska Peninsula Tuesday...accompanied by a weather front east and southeast from the center. Brisk easterly winds preceded the front...strongest near the low...gusting near 45 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 Weather in Vermont, February 4 to 5, 1997
- Winter Weather in New York, February 4 to 5, 1997
- Flood in Ohio, February 4 to 5, 1997
- Winter Storm in Vermont, February 4 to 5, 1997
- Winter Storm in New York, February 4 to 5, 1997
- Winter Storm in New York, February 4 to 5, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, February 4 to 5, 1997
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, February 4, 1997
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 4, 1997
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, February 4, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, February 4, 1997
- Ice Storm in Wisconsin, February 4, 1997
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 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: 5588730.