High Wind in Alaska, January 8 to 9, 2002

Name: High Wind in Alaska, January 8 to 9, 2002
Start: 2002-01-08T10:00
End: 2002-01-09T14:30
Location: Alaska

January 8 to 9, 2002 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

117 mph gust recorded by Marcus Hartley who lives on Kings Way Drive at 3:30 am Wednesday. Max's Mountain recorded peak gust of 112 mph Tuesday night.

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.

Frontal system approaching the area from the south and southeast brought locally strong east and southeast winds to the Upper Anchorage Hillside.117 mph gust recorded by Marcus Hartley who lives on Kings Way Drive at 3:30 am Wednesday. Caryn Smith, on Black Bear Circle, recorded a gust of 114 mph at 3:50 pm Tuesday, citing that winds died down a little in the evening between 7 and 10 pm, then picked up again.Max's Mountain recorded peak gust of 112 mph Tuesday night. Unconfirmed report of gusts 100 mph around Norway Drive (?).90 to 95 mph winds in parts of Bear Valley (Fesler/Fredston), with a 1/3rd of a neighbor's roof blown off called in late afternoon Tuesday.Power outages were reported in Tyonek, Beluga, Hope, Cooper Landing, Hillside and Muldoon.

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek

When: January 8, 10:00 AM AST to January 9, 2:30 PM AST
Where: Anchorage Muni to Bird Creek forecast zone
Measured: 102 kt (117 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

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

Every storm in Alaska in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5277121.