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 7, 5:00 AM AST, 7 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION SOUTHWEST ALASKA 600 AM ADT THU OCT 7 2004 .DISCUSSION... .ANALYSIS...TWO MAJOR STORM SYSTEMS ARE MOVING ACROSS THE NORTH PACIFIC. ONE IS LOCATED AT 48N 143W WITH ESTIMATED SURFACE PRESSURE OF 965 MB. SHIP REPORT JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE CENTER REPORTED 60 KT AT 12Z. UPPER JET DIVING SOUTHEASTWARD FROM EASTERN BERING SEA IS PROVIDING UPPER SUPPORT. LOOKS LIKE JET IS COMING UP EAST SIDE OF TROUGH AND LOW IS BEGINNING TO WRAP UP. THEREFORE WILL ONLY SEE A LITTLE MORE DEEPENING TODAY BEFORE LOW STARTS TO WEAKEN. A WEAK UPPER LOW IS FOUND TO THE NORTH OVER THE NORTHERN COPPER RIVER BASIN. THIS IS PROVIDING RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS FOR THE COPPER RIVER BASIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS ELSEWHERE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL ALASKA. WITH VERY WEAK AND CONFUSED FLOW SHOWERS ARE VERY SLOW TO MOVE. SECOND MAJOR SYSTEM (AND THE ONE THAT WILL HAVE IMPACT ON AFC AOR) IS LOCATED AT 52N 170E WITH ESTIMATED SURFACE PRESSURE OF 964 MB. 13Z SHEMYA OB INDICATES SURFACE PRESSURE OF 976 MB AND SOUTH WINDS GUSTING TO 51 KT. THIS IS ABOUT 6 MB LOWER THAN GFS PROG. LOW IS LIKELY STRONGER THAN MODELS INDICATE. ABUNDANT MOISTURE BEING TRANSPORTED FROM TROPICS TO WESTERN ALEUTIANS. RIDGING AHEAD OF SYSTEM PROVIDING FAIR CONDITIONS ACROSS EASTERN BERING SEA. .FORECAST...MODELS ONCE AGAIN IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH SYNOPTIC SYSTEMS. HAVE TRENDED TOWARD DEEPER LOWS BASED ON CURRENT MODEL VERIFICATION. UNDER PROGRESSIVE HEMISPHERIC FLOW MAJOR LOW IN THE EAST WILL TRACK TO SOUTHEAST ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA TODAY AND FRIDAY WITH MINIMAL EFFECT ON GULF OF ALASKA WINDS. MEANWHILE WESTERN LOW WILL TRACK EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN BERING WHILE SHORT-WAVE RIDGE MOVES TO SOUTHERN MAINLAND AND HELPS GRADUALLY DRY THINGS OUT THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. LOW WILL DEEPEN FURTHER TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH CONTINUED UPPER SUPPORT. IT THEN GETS CUT OFF OVER EASTERN BERING WITH JET SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIANS. SIGNIFICANT WINDS AND SEAS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE PATH OF THIS STORM. GFS INDICATES AN 80 KT JET AT 850 MB THIS EVENING ON SOUTH SIDE OF STORM. LAST EVENING UPDATED HIGH WIND WATCH FOR WESTERN ALEUTIANS TO A WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. HAVE ALSO ISSUED A HURRICANE FORCE WIND WARNING FOR MARINE AREAS 13A AND 13B WITH STORMS FOR THE BERING SEA AND EASTERN ALEUTIANS. WAVE HEIGHTS WILL REACH 25 TO 35 FEET ALONG THE WESTERN ALEUTIANS. LOW IS FORECAST TO TRACK TO KUSKOKWIM DELTA SAT NIGHT AND THEN NORTHWARD. THIS TRACK IS FARTHER NORTH THAN YESTERDAY. WITH A FAIRLY GOOD WESTERLY FETCH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN BERING SEA WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR POSSIBILITY OF COASTAL FLOODING ALONG SOUTHWEST COAST. FOR THE MAINLAND LOOKS LIKE A WET WEEKEND. IT IS TOO EARLY TO NAIL DOWN DETAILS OF PRECIPITATION TYPE. HOWEVER...AT THIS POINT APPEARS PRECIP MAY START AS SNOW OVER SOUTH CENTRAL BUT SHOULD TURN OVER TO RAIN PRETTY QUICKLY WITH MODERATE LOW LEVEL WARM ADVECTION. FOR THE EXTENDED FORECAST...MEAN TROUGH THROUGH THE PERIOD CENTERED OVER BERING WHICH WILL REMAIN SEASONABLY STORMY. MAINLAND WILL REMAIN ON WARM SIDE OF STORM SYSTEMS SO SHOULD SEE OCCASIONAL RAIN. .ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WARNING 191. MARINE...HURRICANE FORCE 13A 13B. STORMS 12AB. GALES 5B 6B 8 12A1 14 15. SEB OCT 04
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An intense low moved from the north Pacific into the western Aleutians during the afternoon of October 7th. The wind peaked at 77 mph on the afternoon of the 7th and diminished below warning criteria by the early evening.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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