High Wind, Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek
- When
- January 23, 11:00 PM AST to January 24, 3:00 AM AST
- Where
- Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek forecast zone
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 23 to 24, 2001
Winds locally reached 60 + mph late Tuesday and Wednesday along the Anchorage Upper Hillside and around the Portage Valley. Gusts at Glen Alps likely first reached warning levels around 11 pm Tuesday, peaking at 67 mph between 2 and 3 am Wednesday, diminishing below 60 mph after 3 am.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Winds locally reached 60 + mph late Tuesday and Wednesday along the Anchorage Upper Hillside and around the Portage Valley. Strong gusts were related to a combination of a pre-frontal ridge extending form Prince William Sound into the central Susitna Valley and a frontal system approaching lower Cook Inlet from the south southwest.Gusts at Glen Alps likely first reached warning levels around 11 pm Tuesday, peaking at 67 mph between 2 and 3 am Wednesday, diminishing below 60 mph after 3 am. Gusts at Portage briefly reached 60 mph between 11 am and noon Wednesday.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns
- When
- January 24, 11:00 AM AST to 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 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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The same day elsewhere
- Dense Fog in Washington, January 23, 2001
- Extreme Cold in Florida, January 23, 2001
- Winter Storm and Lightning Strike in California, January 23 to 24, 2001
- Avalanche in Alaska, January 23, 2001
- Ice Storm in Alaska, January 23, 2001
- Heavy Snow in California, January 23 to 24, 2001
- Heavy Snow in California, January 23 to 24, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 23 to 24, 2001
- Heavy Snow in California, January 23 to 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 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: 5229456, 5229457.