Cold/Wind Chill, Arctic Slope Coastal
- When
- February 14, 9:00 AM AST to February 19, 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Arctic Slope Coastal forecast zone
Cold in Alaska, February 14 to 19, 1998
A prolonged period of moderate east winds at Point Lay with a cold airmass produced wind chills of -85 F to to -107 F during the period, with Wind chills below -100 common on the 18th.
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 prolonged period of moderate east winds at Point Lay with a cold airmass produced wind chills of -85 F to to -107 F during the period, with Wind chills below -100 common on the 18th.
Event by event
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Cold/Wind Chill
- Cold or wind chill below warning criteria that caused deaths, injuries or damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Utah, February 14 to 16, 1998
- Tornadoes in California, February 14, 1998
- Flood and Damaging Winds in California, February 14 to 15, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 14 to 15, 1998
- Flooding in California, February 14 to 15, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 14 to 15, 1998
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in California, February 14, 1998
- Heavy Snow in California, February 14 to 17, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, February 14, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 14 to 15, 1998
- Heavy Snow in California, February 14 to 15, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, February 14, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 1998
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: 5630443.