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 5, 12:00 PM AST, 7 hours earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION 1200 PM AST THU DEC 5 2002 ANALYSIS...ETA/AVN SIMILAR. WILL KEEP SLIGHTLY LOWER PRES OF AVN. ALEUTIAN LOW WEAKENING SLOWLY MOVING JUST EAST NORTHEAST OF PRIBS 00Z SAT. FRONT EASTERN AK PEN/SOUTHWEST COAST WEAKENING OVER KODIAK SOUTHERN KUSKOKWIM VALLEY 12Z FRI..NORTHERN PORTION DIFFUSE NORTHERN KUSKOKWIM VALLEY 00Z SAT BUT SOUTHERN PORTION MOVING LITTLE. CONTINUED MILD. HEAVIEST PRECIP SOUTH SIDE EASTERN AK PEN. NEXT ALEUTIAN FRONT APPROACHING ATTU 12Z FRI NEAR ADAK 00Z SAT AND NEAR PRIBS AND DUTCH HARBOR 12Z SAT. MIN GALES IN ADVANCE. .AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE. MARINE...GALE 5,6,8,12,13.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Pressure gradients briefly tightened enough to produce strong southeasterly winds across western Turnagain Arm and along the Upper Anchorage Hillside. Gusts of 62 mph were briefly reported at Glen Alps, while McHugh Creek peaked at 58 mph at 8:35 pm Thursday evening.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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