High Wind, Alaska Peninsula
- When
- February 16, 2:03 AM AST to 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 62 kt (71 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, February 16 to 17, 2001
A 959 mb low moved across the eastern Aleutians near Dutch Harbor Friday morning eventually weakening to 970 mb near St Lawrence Island Saturday morning. The associated front pushed through the eastern Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula Friday morning and the Bering Sea coastal areas late Friday.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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 959 mb low moved across the eastern Aleutians near Dutch Harbor Friday morning eventually weakening to 970 mb near St Lawrence Island Saturday morning. The associated front pushed through the eastern Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula Friday morning and the Bering Sea coastal areas late Friday. Winds reached 60+ mph at 5 pm Friday at Adak. Atka reached 60+ mph beginning 6:35 pm Friday and peaked at 63 mph 4:35 am Saturday. Dutch Harbor reached the 60+ mph high wind threshold at 5:35 pm Friday. Warning level winds continued for the next 2 ½ hours, peaking at 64 mph several times during this period. Winds over the Alaska Peninsula first reached 60+ mph at 2:03 am Friday then peaked at 71 mph at 4:59 am Friday in advance of the front.The strong winds then continued east in advance of the front. Also, warm advection aloft resulted in brief periods of freezing rain over the Kuskokwim Delta Friday night and Saturday morning. Mekoryuk had peak winds of 64 mph at 11:35 pm Friday.In the Bristol Bay zone, winds reached 60 mph at Cape Newenham at 3:55 am Friday then peaked at 70 mph 9:55 am Friday. Winds finally dropped below warning levels 12:55 am Saturday. Peak winds at Togiak reached 67 mph at 5:35 pm Friday, and 73 mph at Egegik at 3:15 pm Friday.Winds reached 60+ mph at Sitkinak at 2 pm Friday. Peak winds at the site reached 64 mph at 3 pm and again at 7 and 8 pm Friday.
Event by event
6 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Bristol Bay
- When
- February 16, 2:55 AM AST to February 17, 12:55 AM AST
- Where
- Bristol Bay forecast zone
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind, Western Aleutians
- When
- February 16, 8:15 AM AST to February 17, 4:35 AM AST
- Where
- Western Aleutians forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind, Kodiak Peninsula
- When
- February 16, 2:00 PM AST to February 17, 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind, Eastern Aleutians
- When
- February 16, 5:55 PM AST to 8:55 PM AST
- Where
- Eastern Aleutians forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind, Kuskokwim Delta
- When
- February 16, 10:35 PM AST to February 17, 1:35 AM AST
- Where
- Kuskokwim Delta forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
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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More
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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: 5228528, 5228530, 5228526, 5228531, 5228527, 5228529.