High Wind, Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek
- When
- February 16, 9:00 AM AST to February 17, 4:00 AM AST
- Where
- Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek forecast zone
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, February 16 to 17, 2001
A 959 mb low moved through the eastern Aleutians Friday to the coast of the Kuskokwim Delta Saturday. The associated front moved through the south central region as it dissipated Saturday morning.
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 959 mb low moved through the eastern Aleutians Friday to the coast of the Kuskokwim Delta Saturday. The associated front moved through the south central region as it dissipated Saturday morning. Winds reached warning levels on the Upper Hillside of Anchorage beginning around 9 am Friday and subsided below warning levels around 3 am Saturday. The peak wind at Glen Alps was 70 mph at 6 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
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- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
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- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, February 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 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: 5228532.