High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- May 4, 12:00 PM AST to May 5, 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 4 to 5, 1997
extending in a long arc from Cape Navarin to Dutch Harbor at 4am Monday. The front then remained nearly stationary and began to dissipate late Monday.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 moved into the western Aleutians Saturday...extending in a long arc from Cape Navarin to Dutch Harbor at 4am Monday. The front then remained nearly stationary and began to dissipate late Monday. Brisk southeasterly winds preceded the front...reaching 45 mph in the western Aleutians Saturday and 40 mph locally along the Alaska Peninsula late Sunday and Monday.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Eastern Aleutians
- When
- May 4, 12:00 PM AST to May 5, 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Eastern Aleutians forecast zone
- Measured
- 39 kt (45 mph)
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 4 to 17, 1997
- Flood in North Carolina, May 4, 1997
- Hurricane in Guam, May 4 to 11, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 4, 1997
- High Wind in Montana, May 4, 1997
- Tornado in Florida, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 4, 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: 5601279, 5601422.