Cold/Wind Chill, Arctic Slope Coastal
- When
- January 20, 5:00 AM AST to 5:00 PM AST
- Where
- Arctic Slope Coastal forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Cold in Alaska, January 20 to 21, 1999
Cold High Pressure building over Interior Alaska with Low Pressure well north of the Arctic Coast produced winds of 20 mph over the eastern Arctic Coast in ambient air temperatures in the 30s below. before clouds from the front moved in and warmed temperatures on the 22nd.
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 AFG wrote it up.
Cold High Pressure building over Interior Alaska with Low Pressure well north of the Arctic Coast produced winds of 20 mph over the eastern Arctic Coast in ambient air temperatures in the 30s below. As the high built, a weather front moved north over the Bering Sea causing winds over Zone 3 to increase in ambient air temperatures of 25 to 35 below ...before clouds from the front moved in and warmed temperatures on the 22nd. Lowest Wind Chills: Arctic Slope Coastal (Zone 1): Kuparuk -87, Prudhoe Bay -94; Lower Kobuk Valley to Cape Lisburne (Zone 3): Kotzebue -76, Selawik -82.
Event by event
2 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Cold/Wind Chill, Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula
- When
- January 20, 9:00 PM AST to January 21, 4:00 AM AST
- Where
- Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
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
- Winter Storm in Utah, January 20 to 22, 1999
- Dense Fog in Michigan, January 20, 1999
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 20 to 22, 1999
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 20 to 24, 1999
- Dense Fog in Florida, January 20, 1999
- Winter Weather in South Dakota, January 20, 1999
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 20 to 22, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, January 20 to 21, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, January 20 to 21, 1999
- High Wind in Oregon, January 20, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 20 to 21, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 20 to 21, 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: 5681143, 5681144.