Cold/Wind Chill, Baldwin Pen. & Selawik Valley
- When
- January 25, 8:55 PM AST to January 26, 4:55 AM AST
- Where
- Baldwin Pen. & Selawik Valley forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Cold in Alaska, January 25 to 26, 2002
Wind chill temperatures to 72 degrees below zero were reported at Selawik. Sufficiently cold surface temperatures combined with winds that increased to over 15 mph resulted in warning criteria being met.
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 AFG wrote it up.
Wind chill temperatures to 72 degrees below zero were reported at Selawik. Sufficiently cold surface temperatures combined with winds that increased to over 15 mph resulted in warning criteria being met. The winds sufficient enough to create the extreme wind chills developed as a low over the northern Bering Sea moved northeastward increasing the pressure gradient between it, and high pressure over mainland Alaska.
Event by event
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Cold/Wind Chill
- Cold or wind chill below warning criteria that caused deaths, injuries or damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 25 to 28, 2002
- Winter Storm in Montana, January 25 to 26, 2002
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 25 to 26, 2002
- Heavy Snow in California, January 25 to 26, 2002
- Winter Weather in Vermont, January 25, 2002
- Heavy Snow in California, January 25 to 26, 2002
- Flood in Kentucky, January 25 to 27, 2002
- Flood in Kentucky, January 25 to 29, 2002
- Dense Fog in Florida, January 25, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 25 to 26, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, January 25, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 25, 2002
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 2002
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: 5279785.