High Wind in Alaska, February 3 to 4, 2000

Name: High Wind in Alaska, February 3 to 4, 2000
Start: 2000-02-03T18:00
End: 2000-02-04T03:00
Location: Alaska

February 3 to 4, 2000 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Aleutian Islands

When: February 3, 6:00 PM AST to February 4, 3:00 AM AST
Where: Aleutian Islands forecast zone
Measured: 66 kt (76 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Brisk southwesterly winds moved into the central and eastern Aleutians Friday morning, diminishing most areas in the evening. The winds were observed across a large area along the entire south semicircle of a weakening low, that moved from the central Aleutians into the southeast Bering Sea. The low reached intensities of 958 mbs...between Dutch Harbor and Adak...Thursday afternoon. By late Friday night, the low had weakened to 976 mbs and was located 90 miles north northwest of Cold Bay...no longer producing strong winds.Highest winds were recorded at the Dutch Harbor Spit handar site, gusted as high as 76 mph between 10 pm and 10:30 pm Friday.

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

Every storm in Alaska in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, February 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: 5129813.