High Wind, Western Aleutians
- When
- November 29, 6:00 PM AST to 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- Western Aleutians forecast zone
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, November 29, 2001
weakening about 200 miles west of the southern Bering Sea buoy (46035) Friday afternoon. Winds at Shemya gusted between 60 and 70 mph from 6:30 pm AST Thursday to 8:56 pm AST Thursday.
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 small and apparently weak low moved northeast into the extreme southwest Bering Sea Thursday afternoon...weakening about 200 miles west of the southern Bering Sea buoy (46035) Friday afternoon. Initially, one ship report (OVJB2) on the southeast side of the low reported sustained southwest winds at 40 mph at 9 am Thursday, when the low was close to 300 miles southwest of Attu.Winds at Shemya gusted between 60 and 70 mph from 6:30 pm AST Thursday to 8:56 pm AST Thursday.
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
- Winter Storm in Utah, November 29 to 30, 2001
- Winter Storm in Arizona, November 29, 2001
- High Wind in Tennessee, November 29 to 30, 2001
- Flooding in Kentucky, November 29 to 30, 2001
- High Wind in North Carolina, November 29 to 30, 2001
- Strong Wind in Kentucky, November 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, November 29, 2001
- Dense Fog in North Carolina, November 29, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, November 29, 2001
- Strong Wind in Illinois, November 29, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, November 29, 2001
- High Wind in North Carolina, November 29 to 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, November 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: 5273287.