High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- September 4, 9:00 AM AST to September 5, 9:00 AM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 40 kt (46 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, September 4 to 5, 1997
A moderate frontal system, preceded by brisk southeasterly winds, produced wind gusts near 45 mph at Cold Bay, where winds are channelled by terrain from that direction.
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, preceded by brisk southeasterly winds, produced wind gusts near 45 mph at Cold Bay, where winds are channelled by terrain from that direction.
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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, September 4 to 15, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in California, September 4, 1997
- Cold in West Virginia, September 4 to 5, 1997
- Flash Flood in Utah, September 4, 1997
- Cold in Ohio, September 4 to 5, 1997
- Cold in Kentucky, September 4 to 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, September 4, 1997
- Cold in Virginia, September 4 to 5, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, September 4, 1997
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, September 4, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, September 4, 1997
- Flash Flood in Colorado, September 4, 1997
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, September 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: 5619462.