High Wind, Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns
- When
- April 27, 9:45 PM AST to 11:50 PM AST
- Where
- Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns forecast zone
- Measured
- 69 kt (79 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, April 27, 2001
A moderate low moved along the northern Gulf of Alaska coast Friday evening. immediately followed by moderate to strong pressure rises.
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 AFC wrote it up.
A moderate low moved along the northern Gulf of Alaska coast Friday evening. The occluded front moved inland across mainland Alaska...immediately followed by moderate to strong pressure rises. These pressure rises produced strong channeled easterly winds. Gusts of 60 + mph were reported at Portage at 9:45 pm, peaking there at 79 mph at 11:14 pm Friday.
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
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, April 2001
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: 5236156.