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 Oct 27, 4:59 PM AST, 6 hours 47 minutes earlier.
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
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An intensifying low pressure system moved from the north Pacific and up the Alaska Peninsula through the period. Strong winds 70-80 mph were reported on the back side of the low pressure system into the central Aleutians and surrounding waters.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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