High Wind, Pribilof Islands
- When
- January 23, 3:00 PM AST to January 24, 9:00 AM AST
- Where
- Pribilof Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 23 to 24, 1999
A vigorous 'arctic type' low moved quickly east through the southern Bering Sea, reaching landfall and weakening rapidly near Bethel late Sunday morning. Brisk southwest winds, gusting up to 69 mph, were observed as the low passed to the north of Saint Paul at 1:47 am Sunday.
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 vigorous 'arctic type' low moved quickly east through the southern Bering Sea, reaching landfall and weakening rapidly near Bethel late Sunday morning. Brisk southwest winds, gusting up to 69 mph, were observed as the low passed to the north of Saint Paul at 1:47 am Sunday. Winds diminished below 40 mph by 9 am Sunday as the low moved off to the east. One death was reported when a 41 year old male fell over the side of the F/V "West Point" while working on the deck in heavy weather at 1:30 am Sunday. The vessel was located 32 nautical miles southeast of Saint Paul Island at the time.
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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 23, 1999
- Avalanche in Colorado, January 23, 1999
- Flood in Kentucky, January 23, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in New York, January 23 to 28, 1999
- Flood in Ohio, January 23 to 27, 1999
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Virginia, January 23, 1999
- Flood in Ohio, January 23 to 24, 1999
- Flash Flood in Ohio, January 23, 1999
- Flash Flood in Ohio, January 23, 1999
- Flood in Ohio, January 23 to 26, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, January 23 to 24, 1999
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, January 23, 1999
More
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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: 5678363.