High Wind, Bristol Bay
- When
- December 1, 9:00 AM AST to 10:55 AM AST
- Where
- Bristol Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, December 1 to 2, 2000
A strengthening low 120 miles south of Amchitka at 9 am Friday moved by Adak late Friday as a 956 mb center. Atka first gusted in excess of 60 mph after the 11:15 am Friday observation (southeast gusts 63 mph).
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.
A strengthening low 120 miles south of Amchitka at 9 am Friday moved by Adak late Friday as a 956 mb center. The low then curved north to 180 miles north of Adak later Saturday where it became nearly stationary and slowly began to weaken.The front with the low crossed the central Aleutians around midday Friday, lying in a long arc fro Amchitka to 60 miles south of Saint Matthew Island to near Port Moller at 3 pm Saturday.Atka first gusted in excess of 60 mph after the 11:15 am Friday observation (southeast gusts 63 mph). Frontal passage occurred right around this time. Post frontal winds (on the east side of the low) reached 73 mph from the southeast between 8:15 pm and 8:35 pm Friday. Two ships north northwest of Amchitka reported sustained northerly winds in the 55 to 65 mph range on the west side of the storm.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Western Aleutians
- When
- December 1, 11:25 AM AST to December 2, 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Aleutians forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Dense Fog in California, December 1 to 4, 2000
- Drought in Louisiana, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Drought in Louisiana, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Avalanche in Wyoming, December 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Georgia, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Cold in West Virginia, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Extreme Cold in North Carolina, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Cold in Iowa, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, December 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold in South Carolina, December 1 to 31, 2000
- Cold in Illinois, December 1 to 31, 2000
More
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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: 5161227, 5161226.