High Wind, Aleutian Islands
- When
- November 17, 12:00 AM AST to November 19, 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- Aleutian Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 89 kt (102 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, November 17 to 19, 1999
An extremely intense, 937 mb low moved east to a position between Attu and the Komandorskiye Islands of Russia as the day began Wednesday. The low continued east southeast to a position 90 miles east of Saint George at 9 pm Thursday then to a position 300 miles east southeast of Sand Point as a 978 mb center late Friday.
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.
An extremely intense, 937 mb low moved east to a position between Attu and the Komandorskiye Islands of Russia as the day began Wednesday. The low continued east southeast to a position 90 miles east of Saint George at 9 pm Thursday then to a position 300 miles east southeast of Sand Point as a 978 mb center late Friday. Very strong westerly winds were observed along the entire southwest semicircle of the storm, out to 480 miles, late Wednesday and Thursday. However as the low weakened, strong winds were confined to the southwest quadrant of the low, out about 240 miles, late Friday.Peak gusts reached at least 82 mph at Shemya just after noon Wednesday. Gusts at Adak were also strong (above 58 mph). Winds reached 60 mph at the Dutch Harbor airport Friday morning. At the newly installed spit reporting site in Dutch Harbor, however, williwas racing down Ballyhoo Mountain brought a peak wind of 102 mph to that area at 10 am Friday (note: sustained winds were less than 30 mph).
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
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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: 5723834.