High Wind in Alaska, November 3 to 4, 2002

Name: High Wind in Alaska, November 3 to 4, 2002
Start: 2002-11-03T09:15
End: 2002-11-04T04:30
Location: Alaska

November 3 to 4, 2002 · NWS AFC · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 forecasters said that day

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 3, 2:56 AM AST, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:56 AM AST, 6 hours 19 minutes before

SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
900 PM AST SAT NOV 2 2002

ANALYSIS...MODELS HANDLE NORTH PAC SYSTEM SOUTH OF AK PEN IN
GENERALLY SIMILAR MANNER..BINARY SYSTEM MERGING SOUTH OF SAND
POINT SUN. AVN A LITTLE DEEPER BUT BOTH ETA/AVN IN 950S
EVENTUALLY WITH FULL GALE TO STORM WIND SOUTHEAST BERING,
SOUTHWEST ALASKA EASTWARD INTO GULF. FRONT MOVES TO JUST
SOUTHEAST PRIBS IN ARC TO NEAR PADQ 00Z MON AND FROM NORTHERN
YUKON DELTA TO NEAR PAOR 00Z TUE. HIGH WIND WATCH ADDED FOR
PRIBS SUN EVENING.

.AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WARNING ZONE 171,181,185. HIGH WIND WATCH
ZONE 195.
MARINE...STORM 2B,3,5,6. GALE 2C,4,8,12A,15.

Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Eastern Aleutians

When: November 3, 9:15 AM AST to 3:40 PM AST
Where: Eastern Aleutians forecast zone
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

High Wind, Alaska Peninsula

When: November 4, 1:00 AM AST to 4:30 AM AST
Where: Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

An intense low pressure system moved northeast from the eastern North Pacific over the Alaska Peninsula. The low intensified and stalled on the 4th. Strong winds resulted around the west side of this storm system as far west as the Dutch Harbor area.

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, November 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: 5319102, 5319101.