High Wind, Cook Inlet
- When
- November 5, 12:00 AM AST to 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Cook Inlet forecast zone
- Measured
- 42 kt (48 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, November 5, 1997
A moderate frontal system approaching Cook Inlet from the southwest brought wind gusts of close to 50 mph to the upper Anchorage hillside Wednesday morning.
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 approaching Cook Inlet from the southwest brought wind gusts of close to 50 mph to the upper Anchorage hillside Wednesday morning.
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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, November 5, 1997
- Tornadoes in Arkansas, November 5, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, November 5, 1997
- Hail in Arkansas, November 5, 1997
- Hail in Louisiana, November 5, 1997
- High Surf in Hawaii, November 5 to 6, 1997
- Hail in Missouri, November 5, 1997
- Hail in Missouri, November 5, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, November 5 to 7, 1997
- Hail in Arkansas, November 5, 1997
- Hail in Louisiana, November 5, 1997
- Hail in Texas, November 5, 1997
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, November 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: 5620671.