High Wind, Aleutian Islands
- When
- March 13, 12:00 PM AST to March 14, 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Aleutian Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 74 kt (85 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, March 13 to 14, 1999
Cold air, associated with a vigorous eastward moving low in the southern Bering Sea, produced intense snow squalls. These squalls produced gusty west winds at Adak, reaching 85 mph at 4:58 on the 13th...
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 AFC wrote it up.
Cold air, associated with a vigorous eastward moving low in the southern Bering Sea, produced intense snow squalls. These squalls produced gusty west winds at Adak, reaching 85 mph at 4:58 on the 13th... and 67 mph between 3:30 and 4am on the 14th. At Cold Bay, strong winds developed later, with gusts reaching 61 mph from the southwest between 5:20pm and 6:00 pm Sunday.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Western Alaska Peninsula
- When
- March 14, 6:00 AM AST to 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
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 in Louisiana, March 13, 1999
- Winter Storm in Missouri, March 13 to 14, 1999
- Dense Fog in Nebraska, March 13, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 13, 1999
- Tornado in Alabama, March 13, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, March 13 to 14, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 13, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 13, 1999
- Winter Storm in Tennessee, March 13 to 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 13, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 13, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, March 13 to 14, 1999
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 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: 5681124, 5681125.