High Wind, Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula
- When
- October 31, 9:00 PM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 49 kt (56 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, October 31, 1997
A series of storms moved from the southwest Bering Sea to the northeast Bering sea and southern Chukchi Sea, Resulting in High Winds and possible Blizzard conditions. Shishmaref reported maximum winds of 35 kts gusts 41 kts.
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 AFG wrote it up.
A series of storms moved from the southwest Bering Sea to the northeast Bering sea and southern Chukchi Sea, Resulting in High Winds and possible Blizzard conditions. Shishmaref reported maximum winds of 35 kts gusts 41 kts. Point Hope reported maximum winds of 43 kt gusts 49 kts. Event Continued on Nov 1.
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
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- Drought in Pennsylvania, October 31, 1997
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- Damaging Wind in Florida, October 31, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, October 31, 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: 5623216.