High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- May 2, 12:00 AM AST to 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 2, 1997
A moderate front just east of the Komandorskiye Islands produced moderate southerly winds ahead of it in the extreme western Aleutians Wednesday. Gusts reached 43 mph at Shemya at 10:10 am Wednesday.
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 front just east of the Komandorskiye Islands produced moderate southerly winds ahead of it in the extreme western Aleutians Wednesday. Gusts reached 43 mph at Shemya at 10:10 am Wednesday. By Friday morning...the front extended in an arc through the eastern Bering Sea to just east of Seguam Island, producing locally brisk southeast winds around Cold Bay where gusts near 40 mph were recorded in the morning. By Friday afternoon...the front had weakened significantly.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, May 2 to 3, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, May 2, 1997
- Hail and High Wind in Arkansas, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 2, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, May 2, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, May 2, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, May 2, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, May 2, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, May 2, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 2 to 15, 1997
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, May 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: 5601278.