Waterspout, Cp Decision to Cp Fairweather
- When
- August 22, 9:15 PM AST to 9:28 PM AST
- Where
- Cp Decision to Cp Fairweather County, Sitka
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Waterspout in Alaska, August 22, 2000
The Sitka Airport observer reported a waterspout in Sitka Sound. The waterspout moved inland from the Sound and across the airport runway before dissipating.
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 AJK wrote it up.
The Sitka Airport observer reported a waterspout in Sitka Sound. The waterspout moved inland from the Sound and across the airport runway before dissipating.
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Missouri, August 22 to 31, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, August 22, 2000
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 22, 2000
- Hurricane in Puerto Rico, August 22 to 23, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 22, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Wisconsin, August 22, 2000
- Hurricane in U.S. Virgin Islands, August 22, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 22, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 22, 2000
- Wildfire in California, August 22, 2000
- Damaging Wind in California, August 22, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 22, 2000
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, August 2000
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: 5170697.