Cold/Wind Chill, Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula
- When
- January 27, 2:00 AM AST to 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Cold in Alaska, January 27, 1999
Local north winds around 25 mph at Deering produced wind chills as cold as -74. Other sites over Zone 3 did not have as strong of winds or as low of wind chills.
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 AFG wrote it up.
Local north winds around 25 mph at Deering produced wind chills as cold as -74. Other sites over Zone 3 did not have as strong of winds or as low of wind chills. A ridge of high pressure from teh Northern Seward Peninsula southwest to the Bering Sea was stationary.
Event by event
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
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 Weather in Vermont, January 27 to 29, 1999
- Winter Weather in New York, January 27 to 29, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 27 to 29, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 27, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Washington, January 27 to 28, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 27 to 28, 1999
- Heat in Alabama, January 27, 1999
- Heat in Alabama, January 27, 1999
- Heat in Georgia, January 27, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 27 to 28, 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: 5681511.