High Wind, St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast
- When
- May 19, 10:15 AM AST to 5:35 PM AST
- Where
- St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 19, 1997
A storm crossed the central aleutian chain and moved north over the southern and central Bering Sea before curving northwest and weakening. Max winds at Gambell: 35g41 kts 19th 1815 AST, at Savoonga 35g43 kts occasionally between 1015am and 1735 on the 19th.
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.
A storm crossed the central aleutian chain and moved north over the southern and central Bering Sea before curving northwest and weakening. Max winds at Gambell: 35g41 kts 19th 1815 AST, at Savoonga 35g43 kts occasionally between 1015am and 1735 on the 19th.
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
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- Flash Flood in California, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flood in Mississippi, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flood in Utah, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 19, 1997
More
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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: 5592700.