High Wind, Alaska Peninsula
- When
- December 6, 4:00 AM AST to 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, December 6, 2000
A moderate front approaching the Alaska Peninsula from the southwest was preceded by strong southeast winds. Gusts at the Cold Bay ASOS first reached 60 mph or greater between 3:53 am and 4:29 am Wednesday.
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 moderate front approaching the Alaska Peninsula from the southwest was preceded by strong southeast winds. Gusts at the Cold Bay ASOS first reached 60 mph or greater between 3:53 am and 4:29 am Wednesday. Peak winds at the site reached 61 mph between 4:30 and 5:00 am Wednesday. Winds at the site rapidly began to diminish by 5 am, as the front moved through. with the frontal passage, winds began to rapidly diminish. Winds at Port Heiden reached 58 mph between 7:15 and 7:35 am Wednesday. By noon, the front had cleared the Alaska Peninsula and winds were no longer a threat.
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
- Heavy Snow in New York, December 6 to 7, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, December 6 to 7, 2000
- Winter Storm in Virginia, December 6 to 7, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, December 6 to 7, 2000
- High Surf in Hawaii, December 6 to 7, 2000
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, December 6, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 6, 2000
- High Wind in Montana, December 6, 2000
- Lake-Effect Snow in New York, December 6 to 7, 2000
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 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: 5161231.