High Wind, Kodiak Peninsula
- When
- January 23, 6:00 AM AST to January 25, 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 88 kt (101 mph)
- Property damage
- $100
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 23 to 25, 2002
to a position off Southeast Alaska near Canada Friday. The system was followed by a strong area of high pressure.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100
- 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 complex 988 mb low, centered north of Cold Bay Tuesday, moved east across the Gulf of Alaska Wednesday and Thursday...to a position off Southeast Alaska near Canada Friday. The system was followed by a strong area of high pressure. Cold northwest winds moved in behind the low and into Kodiak Island late Wednesday and Thursday. Winds were accompanied by temperatures in the single digits and multiple areas of blowing snow. Despite the lack of corroborating reports, extreme blizzard conditions were likely reached in some areas...especially areas adjacent to Shelikof Strait.Several observations from Sitkinak were missing...likely directly due to the strong winds. The East Amatuli Island deep water buoy stopped reporting about 7 pm Wednesday, probably due to ice accretion from warning level freezing spray.No damage was reported at Larsen Bay, Port Lions or Port Bailey.Akhiok reported a wind speed of 82 mph. A tin roof was lost from a storage shed...otherwise no other damage was reported. The wind equipment is privately owned.Event maxima...101 mph from the northwest at Sitkinak at 7 am Thursday, 1/24/02.
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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Tornado in Kentucky, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, January 23, 2002
- Wildfire and High Wind in California, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, January 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, January 23, 2002
More
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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: 5277268.