An intense Pacific frontal system brought strong winds to much of Southeast Alaska as it moved onshore.
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.
The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
An intense Pacific frontal system brought strong winds to much of Southeast Alaska as it moved onshore.
4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds occurred along the outer coast of the Panhandle where a peak wind of 60 mph was recorded at Cape Spencer.
Southeast winds in excess of 60 occurred in the Juneau area, and a peak wind of 65 mph was recorded at the Juneau Ranger Station near the airport.
Southeast winds in excess of 60 mph occurred over the southern outer coast of the Panhandle where a peak wind of 65 mph was recorded at Cape Decision.
Southwest winds in excess of 60 mph occurred over Lynn Canal, with a peak wind of 65 mph recorded in Skagway.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 2001
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: 5230732, 5230734, 5230733, 5230735.