High Wind in Alaska, October 27 to 28, 2002

Name: High Wind in Alaska, October 27 to 28, 2002
Start: 2002-10-27T22:00
End: 2002-10-28T14:00
Location: Alaska

October 27 to 28, 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 Oct 27, 4:59 PM AST, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 4:59 PM AST, 5 hours 1 minute before

SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
1200 PM AST SUN OCT 27 2002

BIG STORM CENTERED ARND 43N 160W TO SPRD WND/RN TO KODIAK ISLND
TNGT. WITH LOW CNTR MOVG TO PASD MON NGT IT LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT
OF LAST WEEKS FLOODING FOR THE KENAI PEN WITH QPFS SHWG EVEN
HVIR PCPN AMTS BEGINNING MON NGT.

.AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...SEE AFTN PAKAGE FOR FLOOD WATCHS WND WRNGS AND ADVSRYS.
MARINE...SEE MARINE FCSTS.

PERCY OCT 02

Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Kodiak Peninsula

When: October 27, 10:00 PM AST to October 28, 12:30 PM AST
Where: Kodiak Peninsula forecast zone
Measured: 78 kt (90 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

High Wind, Bristol Bay

When: October 28, 4:51 AM AST to 2:00 PM AST
Where: Bristol Bay forecast zone
Measured: 62 kt (71 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

An intensifying low pressure system moved north into the Alaska Peninsula. Strong pre-frontal winds in the southeast arc of the intensifying low pressure system produced winds in excess of 60 mph on the southern end of Kodiak Island and into the King Salmon 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, October 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: 5319846, 5319845.