High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- May 21, 6:00 PM AST to May 22, 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 34 kt (39 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 21 to 22, 1997
preceded by brisk easterly wind gusts around 40 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 frontal system approached the western Aleutians late Wednesday and early Thursday...preceded by brisk easterly wind gusts around 40 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 21 to 31, 1997
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Colorado, May 21 to 27, 1997
- Tornado in Louisiana, May 21, 1997
- Hail in Idaho, May 21, 1997
- Hail in Idaho, May 21, 1997
- Flood in Washington, May 21 to 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 21, 1997
- Hail in Idaho, May 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 21, 1997
- Flood in Mississippi, May 21, 1997
- Flash Flood in Texas, May 21, 1997
- Flood in Montana, May 21, 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: 5601444.