High Wind, Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound to Dixon Entrance
- When
- December 3, 7:00 AM AST to 11:30 AM AST
- Where
- Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound to Dixon Entrance forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, December 3, 2001
A strong weather front moving through the area brought strong gusty southeast winds to Ketchikan. Wind gusts from wind sensors a top the terminal at Ketchikan (64 mph) were reported several times.
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 AJK wrote it up.
A strong weather front moving through the area brought strong gusty southeast winds to Ketchikan. Wind gusts from wind sensors a top the terminal at Ketchikan (64 mph) were reported several times.
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
- High Surf in American Samoa, December 3 to 7, 2001
- High Surf in California, December 3 to 4, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, December 3 to 4, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, December 3 to 16, 2001
- Dense Fog in California, December 3, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 3 to 4, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, December 3 to 4, 2001
- High Wind in South Dakota, December 3, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, December 3, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 3 to 5, 2001
- Hail in Puerto Rico, December 3, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, December 3 to 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 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: 5273912.