High Wind, Pribilof Islands
- When
- January 14, 6:00 PM AST to January 15, 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Pribilof Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 47 kt (54 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 14 to 15, 1999
An arctic type low developed along the arctic front just west of the Pribilofs late Thursday. At 9 am Friday, the low had begun to weaken and was located about 90 miles south of Nunivak Island with the arctic cold front extending southward through Cold Bay.
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.
An arctic type low developed along the arctic front just west of the Pribilofs late Thursday. At 9 am Friday, the low had begun to weaken and was located about 90 miles south of Nunivak Island with the arctic cold front extending southward through Cold Bay. Cold arctic air aloft, contributed to highly unstable conditions across the Bering in the vicinity of the low and behind it and the cold front...causing very gusty winds in the snow showers that ensued. Pre-frontal southerly winds gusted to 53 mph at Saint Paul Island and 54 mph at Saint George Island between 9 and 11 pm Thursday...with northwesterly gusts reaching 44 mph behind the low a few hours later at Saint Paul and 53 mph at Saint George between 8am and 10 am Friday. Wind gusts finally diminished below 40 mph across the Pribilofs just after 4pm Friday.Prefrontal winds reached 44 mph at Mekoryuk (on Nunivak Island) shifted to the west and diminished between 6 and 7am Friday...however prefrontal gusts reached 48 mph at Cape Romanzof just after midnight Thursday and 56 mph just prior to frontal passage between 8 and 10 am Friday.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Kuskokwim Delta
- When
- January 15, 1:30 AM AST to 7:00 AM AST
- Where
- Kuskokwim Delta forecast zone
- Measured
- 38 kt (44 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
- Dense Fog in Louisiana, January 14, 1999
- Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Maryland, January 14 to 15, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 14 to 15, 1999
- Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Virginia, January 14 to 15, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 14 to 17, 1999
- Winter Storm in New York, January 14 to 15, 1999
- Ice Storm in West Virginia, January 14 to 15, 1999
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 14 to 15, 1999
- Winter Storm in New York, January 14 to 15, 1999
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, January 14, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Winter Storm in Maine, January 14 to 15, 1999
- High Wind in Montana, January 14, 1999
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5680228, 5680229.