High Wind in Alaska, November 7, 2000

Name: High Wind in Alaska, November 7, 2000
Start: 2000-11-07T00:00
End: 2000-11-07T21:00
Location: Alaska

November 7, 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 7, 12:00 AM AST to 9:00 PM AST
Where: Aleutian Islands forecast zone
Measured: 77 kt (89 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

A moderate 970 mb low, located just north of Amchitka Island early Tuesday moved north into the central Bering Sea late in the day, where it began to weaken. Strong southwesterly winds were observed along the back side of the storm, with gusts reaching an impressive 89 mph in a squall at Atka right around noon. Just west of Atka, southwest wind gusts at Adak reached 66 mph Tuesday morning. The associated front, in an arc to just east of Atka at 3 am Tuesday, elongated northeast into the southwest Alaskan Coast and Alaska Peninsula and southwest late Tuesday. Prefrontal wind gusts reached 73 mph at the Dutch Harbor Spit between 9 and 9:30 am.

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, November 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: 5161300.