A portion of the weather front wrapped around a low over the eastern Gulf of Alaska and brushed the southwest coastal areas. The increase in winds spread in about 930 pm and last to just after midnight.
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 episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
A portion of the weather front wrapped around a low over the eastern Gulf of Alaska and brushed the southwest coastal areas. The increase in winds spread in about 930 pm and last to just after midnight. Klawock reported gusts to 71 mph with some minor damage. The roof a trailer blew off and power lines distrubed or knocked down resulting in a power outages for a couple of hours. Cape Decision also report winds gusting to 61 mph.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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, January 2002
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: 5277877, 5277878.