High Wind, St Lawrence Is. Bering Strait
- When
- January 5, 1:15 PM AST to 1:55 PM AST
- Where
- St Lawrence Is. Bering Strait forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, January 5, 2002
High wind criteria was briefly met over the western end of St. Lawrence Island with wind gusts reaching 52 knots (60 mph).
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.
High wind criteria was briefly met over the western end of St. Lawrence Island with wind gusts reaching 52 knots (60 mph). These winds resulted as an embedded trough of low pressure moved across the region within an already moderately tight pressure gradient. This pressure gradient had developed several days earlier between a persistent high pressure ridge that extended from Siberia to northern Alaska, and an opposing low pressure system moving across the North Pacific.
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
- Ice Storm in Kansas, January 5, 2002
- Extreme Cold in South Carolina, January 5, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, January 5, 2002
- Winter Storm in Tennessee, January 5 to 6, 2002
- Rip Current in Guam, January 5, 2002
- High Surf in Hawaii, January 5 to 10, 2002
- Winter Storm in Virginia, January 5 to 6, 2002
- Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 5, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 5 to 6, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, January 5 to 6, 2002
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, January 5 to 6, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in Gulf of Mexico, January 5, 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: 5279688.