High Wind in Alaska, January 12 to 13, 1999

Name: High Wind in Alaska, January 12 to 13, 1999
Start: 1999-01-12T18:00
End: 1999-01-13T03:00
Location: Alaska

January 12 to 13, 1999 · NWS AFC · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Cook Inlet

When: January 12, 6:00 PM AST to January 13, 3:00 AM AST
Where: Cook Inlet forecast zone
Measured: 65 kt (75 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Strong east to southeast winds...gusting to 75 mph at the Portage Visitor's Center at the head of Turnagain Arm...and to 68 mph along the Upper Anchorage Hillside at the Glen Alps mesonet site were reported late Tuesday evening through early Wednesday morning. One of the causes was assumed to be a small scale circulation that tracked north northwestward just east of Kodiak Tuesday afternoon and into lower Cook Inlet late Tuesday evening and early Wednesday morning. Another cause was a prefrontal ridge moving into the north Gulf Coast late Tuesday, ahead of a strong front that was approaching the southern Gulf of Alaska late Tuesday. The winds were short lived...and, in the Anchorage area, limited to elevations above the 15 hundred foot level.

High Wind, Central Gulf Coast

When: January 12, 6:00 PM AST to January 13, 3:00 AM AST
Where: Central Gulf Coast forecast zone
Measured: 43 kt (49 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Brisk east winds, gusting near 50 mph, were recorded around Cordova at the Small Boat Harbor and at a buoy in southeast Prince William Sound. The cause was a prefrontal ridge that moved through the area...ahead of a strong incoming Gulf of Alaska front.

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

Every storm in Alaska in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, January 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: 5680223, 5680224.