Alaska, 2000

High Wind in Alaska, November 29, 2000

November 29, 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
November 29, 1:00 AM AST to 7:00 AM AST
Where
Aleutian Islands forecast zone
Measured
62 kt (71 mph)
Reported by
AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

A deepening storm, located 120 miles south of Attu late Tuesday, strengthened to an intense 958 mb center early Wednesday as it curved northwest toward the Komandorskiye Islands of Russia. The front associated with the storm elongated east and north toward the central Aleutians, into Amchitka Island late Wednesday morning.Pre-frontal southwest winds reached 71 mph at Shemya early Wednesday. Winds at the old Air Force station began gusting 60+ mph just after 1 am Wednesday morning. Winds shifted south with the frontal passage at around 5 am Wednesday, with gusts decreasing below 60 mph by 7 am that morning.

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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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: 5161662.