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 Sep 10, 9:00 PM AST, 3 hours earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION 1000 PM ADT WED SEP 10 2002 ANALYSIS...STAYING WITH AVN MODEL FOR DEFINITION OVER BERING SEA. STILL NOT DEEP ENOUGH WITH LOWS OUT THERE. WINDS ARE COMING UP AT PADK AS SYSTEM MOVES CLOSER. MAIN LOW NEAR PAMY AT 36 HR WITH STRONG ON SHORE WINDS ALONG NORTHERN BRISTOL BAY COAST. MODEL HAS GOOD HANDLE ON LINGERING SHOWERS TONIGHT IN PWS AREA AND CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS OVER MAINLAND. PAHG RADAR HAS LOTS OF NON WEATHER ECHOS OVER COOK INLET KENAI AREA. KEEPING WITH TRACK OF MOVING PRECIP IN THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS THEN WET PRETTY MUCH THROUGH 60 HR. .AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WARNING WESTERN ALEUTIANS. MARINE...GALES 5B 12A 12B 13 15 OFB. SEP 02
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A small 986 mb frontal low moved northeast into the Bering Sea Wednesday morning from its position just west southwest of Adak. Winds were estimated at between 55 and 65 mph in the data poor area west of Adak on the 'back side' of the low.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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