High Wind, Tanana Valley
- When
- March 2, 9:00 AM AST to 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 38 kt (44 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, March 2, 2000
Easterly circulation around a large storm in the eastern Aleutians reached the Tanana valley around Delta Junction. then diminished as the trough weakened and moved north.
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 AFG wrote it up.
Easterly circulation around a large storm in the eastern Aleutians reached the Tanana valley around Delta Junction. The wind at Delta Junction picked up as a lee side surface trough formed just north of the Alaska range...then diminished as the trough weakened and moved north. Highest wind at Delta Junction ASOS was 33 mph sustained, gust to 44 mph.
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
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- Hail in Oklahoma, March 2, 2000
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 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: 5134062.