High Wind, Aleutian Islands
- When
- January 31, 9:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Aleutian Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 31, 2000
An extremely intense 940 mb storm moved from the north Pacific to the Island of Amchitka Monday afternoon. The low continued to deepen as it moved into the extreme south-central Bering Sea just before midnight.
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.
An extremely intense 940 mb storm moved from the north Pacific to the Island of Amchitka Monday afternoon. The low continued to deepen as it moved into the extreme south-central Bering Sea just before midnight. This major storm system began a cascade of severe winter weather across the Anchorage area of responsibility during the following week.Reported winds, which were very sparse, across the Aleutians gusted to 61 mph at Adak alte Monday. A ship report very close to Atka registered 75 mph sustained winds at 3pm Monday. Undoubtedly there were much stronger gusts across the area.Across the Pribilofs, wind gusts of 74 mph were recorded at Saint Paul just prior to midnight, accompanied by blizzard conditions in heavy snow and blowing snow. Winds at Saint George peaked at 68 mph just prior to 9pm...then reports ceased from the Island until Wednesday afternoon.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Pribilof Islands
- When
- January 31, 3:00 PM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Pribilof Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 64 kt (74 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
- Winter Storm in New York, January 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Maine, January 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 31, 2000
- Flood in Idaho, January 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 31, 2000
- Winter Storm in Maine, January 31, 2000
- Winter Storm in Connecticut, January 31, 2000
- Winter Storm in Massachusetts, January 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, January 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Utah, January 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 31, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, January 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: 5127588, 5127589.