High Wind in Alaska, January 8 to 9, 1999

Name: High Wind in Alaska, January 8 to 9, 1999
Start: 1999-01-08T18:00
End: 1999-01-09T12:00
Location: Alaska

January 8 to 9, 1999 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Aleutian Islands

When: January 8, 6:00 PM AST to January 9, 12:00 PM AST
Where: Aleutian Islands forecast zone
Measured: 46 kt (53 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

A moderate front southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula brought brisk southeast winds to the far western Aleutians. Wind gusts reached 40 mph a little after 3pm Friday at Shemya and by 10 pm were gusting up to 48 mph from the east. Highest gusts reached 53 mph there just before 2am Saturday.

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

Every storm in Alaska in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5680218.