Cold/Wind Chill, Arctic Slope Coastal
- When
- December 18, 11:15 PM AST to December 20, 12:00 AM AST
- Where
- Arctic Slope Coastal forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Cold in Alaska, December 18 to 20, 1999
With a cold airmass in place over the North Slope, a low pressure center moved north over the west coast of Alaska producing extreme wind chill conditions at Point Lay. Lowest reported wind chill at Point Lay was -96.
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.
With a cold airmass in place over the North Slope, a low pressure center moved north over the west coast of Alaska producing extreme wind chill conditions at Point Lay. Lowest reported wind chill at Point Lay was -96. Wind speed was 25 mph.
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
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, December 18, 1999
- High Wind in South Dakota, December 18, 1999
- High Wind in Montana, December 18 to 19, 1999
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, December 18 to 20, 1999
- High Wind in Montana, December 18 to 19, 1999
- Dense Fog in California, December 18, 1999
- High Wind in Colorado, December 18, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 18 to 19, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 18 to 19, 1999
- High Wind in Montana, December 18, 1999
- High Wind in Washington, December 18, 1999
- High Wind in Montana, December 18, 1999
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 1999
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: 5721020.