1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 22, 2:00 AM AST, 8 hours 10 minutes earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
900 PM AST THU NOV 21 2002
ANALYSIS...CURRENT SATELLITE PICTURES SHOWS THE FRONT ACROSS
EASTERN BRISTOL BAY, KACHEMAK BAY AND THE NORTHERN GULF OF
ALASKA. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN OVER THE SOUTHERN
INTERIOR TONIGHT.
FORECASTS...THE CURRENT SET OF MODEL CONTINUE TO KEEP MOST OF
CENTRAL ALASKA UNDER A WARM, MOIST FLOW THROUGH
A 988 MB LOW NEAR CHIGNIK WILL MOVE TO NEAR HOOPER BAY FRIDAY
AFTERNOON AND WILL DISSIPATE NEAR ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND.
ANOTHER 994 MB LOW OVER THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC WILL MOVE TO
NEAR KODIAK ISLAND AND FRIDAY NIGHT AND DISSIPATE NEAR KING
SALMON SATURDAY MORNING.
A THIRD LOW PRESSURE CENTER COMING OUT OF THE CENTRAL NORTH
PACIFIC WILL MOVE TO NEAR KODIAK ISLAND AND DEEPEN TO 988 MB
SATURDAY AFTERNOON THEN WILL WEAKEN OVER THE SOUTHWEST INTERIOR
SATURDAY NIGHT.
.AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WATCH FOR WESTERN ALEUTIANS.
MARINE...GALE 2B..3ABC..4.
STORM 13.
NM NOV 021 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong, 968 mb low, located off the southern tip of Kamchatka early Thursday, produced strong southerly winds across the extreme western Aleutians. Shemya recorded peak winds of 62 mph between 10 am AST and noon AST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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