Cold/Wind Chill, St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast
- When
- February 19, 5:00 AM AST to February 21, 2:00 AM AST
- Where
- St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast forecast zone
Cold in Alaska, February 19 to 21, 1998
Cold air moving south over the Chukchi Sea and Bering Strait produced low Wind Chills. In Zone 9, Wind Chills of -70 F to -88 F at Tin City occurred with winds above 20 mph; similar conditions were possible at other locations along the Bering Strait, but no other observations are available from the Bering Strait, nor from Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Cold air moving south over the Chukchi Sea and Bering Strait produced low Wind Chills. In Zone 9, Wind Chills of -70 F to -88 F at Tin City occurred with winds above 20 mph; similar conditions were possible at other locations along the Bering Strait, but no other observations are available from the Bering Strait, nor from Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island. In Zone 3, Wind Chill values of -70 F to -79 F were observed at Point Hope.
Event by event
2 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Cold/Wind Chill, Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula
- When
- February 20, 1:00 AM AST to February 21, 11:00 AM AST
- Where
- Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula forecast zone
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
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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: 5630441, 5630442.