High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- May 29, 12:00 PM AST to May 30, 11:00 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 34 kt (39 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 29 to 30, 1997
A moderate front just south of the Aleutians brought easterly wind gusts of 40 mph to most areas Thursday and Friday.
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 south of the Aleutians brought easterly wind gusts of 40 mph to most areas Thursday and Friday.
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
- Wildfire in California, May 29, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 29 to 30, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 29 to 30, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 29, 1997
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 29 to 30, 1997
- Hail in Texas, May 29, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 29, 1997
- Hail in New Mexico, May 29, 1997
- Hail in Texas, May 29, 1997
- Hail in Texas, May 29, 1997
- Hail in Puerto Rico, May 29, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Puerto Rico, May 29, 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: 5601445.