High Wind, Cook Inlet
- When
- December 6, 12:00 PM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Cook Inlet forecast zone
- Measured
- 49 kt (56 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, December 6, 1999
Strong westerly winds, on the back side of a weakening low near Middleton Island, were reported through the Barren Islands (northeast of Kodiak Island) and in the lower part of Cook Inlet. Gusts reached close to 60 mph at the Augustine Island site in lower Cook Inlet.
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 AFC wrote it up.
Strong westerly winds, on the back side of a weakening low near Middleton Island, were reported through the Barren Islands (northeast of Kodiak Island) and in the lower part of Cook Inlet. Gusts reached close to 60 mph at the Augustine Island site in lower Cook Inlet. Westerly winds of 65 mph were reported by the M/V "Sealand Tacoma", east southeast of the Barren Islands, late Monday.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula
- When
- December 6, 12:00 PM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Island-Eastern Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
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The same day elsewhere
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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: 5721509, 5721510.