1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 29, 9:00 PM AST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION 900 PM AST SUN DEC 29 2002 ANALYSIS...MODELS SIMILAR ENOUGH BUT WILL GO WITH AVN FOR DEEPER GULF SYSTEM. CLASSIC AVN TENDENCY TO MOVE MAIN NORTHERN GULF LOW INLAND AFTER 36 HRS RECOGNIZED IN ERROR WITH ETA RETENTION OF PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND GULF LOW FAVORED. INVERTED TROF ALONG WITH UPPER SHORT WAVE FAIRLY POTENT SUNDAY OVER COOK INLET/WESTERN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. A SLIGHT RESPITE EXPECTED MON BUT UPPER TROF STILL FORECAST TO DIG FROM KUSKOKWIM VALLEY MON TO JUST WEST OF COOK INLET/SUSITNA VALLEY MON NIGHT. THIS ALONG WITH DEEPENING PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND LOW AND INFUSION OF WARMER MOIST AIR FROM THE EAST SHOULD PRODUCE ANOTHER SNOW EVENT SOUTH CENTRAL MON NIGHT. ARCTIC FRONT MOVED WEST OF PAMD SUN EARLY EVENING WITH BIG CHANGE TO AIRMASS CENTRAL GULF OVERNIGHT. AVN INITS WESTERN ALEUTIAN LOW NEAR 970 MB WITH DEEPENING INTO THE LOW 950S MON MORNING AND ACCEPTED. SATELLITE LOOP SUGGEST STRONG DEEPENING SUN EVENING. WAVE ALONG FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE TO JUST SOUTHWEST NIKOLSKI 12Z TUE. .AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WARNING ZONE 191. MARINE...GALE 2B,3,12B,13.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong low developed near Shemya Sunday, moving to just south of Shemya Sunday evening. The system produced strong winds across the area...especially across the extreme western Aleutians.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 2002
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