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 Apr 18, 8:00 PM AST, 13 hours earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION 900 PM ADT FRI APR 18 2003 ANALYSIS...ETA/AVN AGAIN VERY SIMILAR AND CONSISTENT WITH PAST RUNS. GULF LOW WEAKENING AND MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST. RIDGE ADVANCING FROM THE WEST CLEARING MOST OF WEST AND SOUTH ALASKA. DEVELOPING MOVING NEAR ADAK 12Z SAT CONTINUING NORTH. FRONT NEAR PRIBS-CAPE SARICHEF 00Z SUN..IN ARC FROM NUNIVAK ISLAND TO SITKINAK 12Z SUN..NEAR PANC SOUTHEASTWARD 00Z MON..CORDOVA SOUTHEASTWARD 12Z MON. FULL GALE TO MIN STORM EASTERN ALEUTIANS/CENTRAL AND EASTERN BERING IN ADVANCE BUT WIND DIMINISHING RAPIDLY WITH MOVEMENT EAST OF AK PEN. .AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE. MARINE...GALE 3AB,5,6B,8,12. STORM 13,15.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong front passing through Unalaska/Dutch Harbor brought wind gusts of around 75 mph to the area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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