High Wind, Aleutian Islands
- When
- July 29, 3:58 PM AST to 4:15 PM AST
- Where
- Aleutian Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, July 29, 1999
A vigorous low, spawned southwest of the Kamchatka Peninsula Wednesday, moved into the western Aleutians Thursday. Brisk southerly winds were reported ahead of the front.
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 low, spawned southwest of the Kamchatka Peninsula Wednesday, moved into the western Aleutians Thursday. Brisk southerly winds were reported ahead of the front. Gusts reached 69 mph at Adak Thursday afternoon.
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
- Heat in Wisconsin, July 29 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Texas, July 29, 1999
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 29, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 29, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 29, 1999
- Heat in Minnesota, July 29 to 30, 1999
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 29, 1999
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 29, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, July 29, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 29, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 29, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 29, 1999
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, July 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: 5700564.