High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- May 5, 12:00 AM AST to 11:00 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 45 kt (52 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, May 5, 1997
weakening in a long arc from the central Bering Sea to Seguam Island Tuesday morning. reaching 52 mph at Shemya late Monday.
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.
Another in a series of moderate fronts moved into the Komandorskiye Islands Monday afternoon...weakening in a long arc from the central Bering Sea to Seguam Island Tuesday morning. Brisk southeast winds again preceded the front...reaching 52 mph at Shemya late Monday.
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
- Strong Wind in Minnesota, May 5, 1997
- High Wind in Iowa, May 5, 1997
- High Wind in Wisconsin, May 5, 1997
- Hail in Michigan, May 5, 1997
- High Wind in Minnesota, May 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 5, 1997
- Hail in Wisconsin, May 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 5, 1997
- Flood in Hawaii, May 5, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 5, 1997
- Hail in Illinois, May 5, 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: 5601423.