High Wind, Cook Inlet
- When
- January 15, 6:00 AM AST to 9:00 AM AST
- Where
- Cook Inlet forecast zone
- Measured
- 43 kt (49 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 15, 1999
weakening to 986 mbs just north of Anchorage at 3am Friday. By late Friday morning, the low recurved southward to just west of Turnagain Arm.
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 AFC wrote it up.
A small 970 mb low in southwestern Prince William Sound at 3pm Thursday, rotated back counterclockwise..weakening to 986 mbs just north of Anchorage at 3am Friday. By late Friday morning, the low recurved southward to just west of Turnagain Arm. On the east side of the low, wind gusts reached 50 mph at the Portage Visitor Center on the east end of Turnagain Arm.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 15 to 25, 1999
- Winter Storm in New York, January 15, 1999
- Strong Wind and Heavy Rain in Rhode Island, January 15, 1999
- Strong Wind and Heavy Rain in Massachusetts, January 15, 1999
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 15 to 16, 1999
- Winter Storm in New Jersey, January 15, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, January 15, 1999
- Winter Weather in Massachusetts, January 15, 1999
- Winter Weather in Virginia, January 15, 1999
- Winter Storm in New York, January 15, 1999
- Flash Flooding in New Jersey, January 15, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Utah, January 15 to 19, 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: 5680227.