High Wind, Western Aleutians
- When
- January 24, 6:00 AM AST to 6:08 AM AST
- Where
- Western Aleutians forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 24, 2002
Shemya reported a warning level gust of 61 mph at 6:08 am Thursday (recorded also on the hourly observation at 6:56 am that same hour). Adak gusted to 40 mph from the south southwest between 2 and 3 pm Thursday, while Atka reported gusts only to 33 mph between noon and 1 pm.
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 large 995 mb low south of Olyutorskiy (on the Kamchatka Peninsula), with a front through the western Aleutians, was responsible for brisk, pre-frontal easterly winds and gusty south winds around the low.Shemya reported a warning level gust of 61 mph at 6:08 am Thursday (recorded also on the hourly observation at 6:56 am that same hour). Adak gusted to 40 mph from the south southwest between 2 and 3 pm Thursday, while Atka reported gusts only to 33 mph between noon and 1 pm.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- High Wind in Washington, January 24, 2002
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- Flooding in West Virginia, January 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002
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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: 5277142.