High Wind in Alaska, November 7 to 8, 2005

Name: High Wind in Alaska, November 7 to 8, 2005
Start: 2005-11-07T01:30
End: 2005-11-08T14:55
Location: Alaska

November 7 to 8, 2005 · NWS AFC · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

A strong north Pacific low intensified to 975 MB south of Shemya. As the low moved off to the east, strong cold air advection wrapped around the storm across the western Aleutian Islands.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 happened

The episode as NWS AFC wrote it up.

A strong north Pacific low intensified to 975 MB south of Shemya. As the low moved off to the east, strong cold air advection wrapped around the storm across the western Aleutian Islands. North wind was gusting to 78 mph across Shemya and the western Aleutian region. The storm then moved to south of the Alaska Peninsula resulting in strong north to northwest wind across the eastern Aleutians and the Alaska Peninsula Tuesday.

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 Nov 6, 2:00 PM AST, 11 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 2:00 PM AST, 11 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA
200 PM AST SUN NOV 6 2005

.DISCUSSION...LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM THAT WAS IN THE NORTHERN BERING SEA
YESTERDAY IS NOW CENTERED OVER THE TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS AND CONTINUES
TO MOVE EASTWARD. COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOW HAS BROUGHT
SNOW TO MOST OF SOUTHERN ALASKA TODAY. WARM AIR THAT WAS LURKING IN
THE NORTH PACIFIC SOUTH OF KODIAK ISLAND HAS BEEN ENTRAINED INTO THIS
SYSTEM AND WARMED KODIAK...ALONG WITH THE DOWNSLOPE EFFECT...INTO THE
MID 40S THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WARM AIR HAS ALSO HELPED CREATE A TRIPLE
POINT LOW IN THE VICINITY OF MIDDLETON ISLAND. THIS NEW LOW HAS BEEN
AIDED BY A NORTHWESTERLY JET MAX AND HAS NOW USURPED MOST OF THE
ENERGY FROM THIS SYSTEM LEAVING THE OLD LOW BY THE TALKEETNA
MOUNTAINS TO DISSIPATE OVERNIGHT.

EXPECT STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS ALONG THE GULF OF ALASKA COAST THROUGH
TONIGHT WITH THIS SYSTEM.

THE JET MAXIMUM THAT STRETCHES FROM NEAR ST LAWRENCE ISLAND THROUGH
THE GULF OF ALASKA WILL WEAKEN OVER THE NEXT DAY AS THE MAIN JET
STREAM INTENSIFIES WELL SOUTH OF THE ALASKA PENINSULA AROUND AN UPPER
LEVEL TROUGH THAT IS DIGGING SOUTH IN THAT AREA. THIS DIGGING TROUGH
IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGH THAT HAS BEEN OVER CENTRAL ALASKA FOR
THE LAST WEEK. IT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING COLD AIR ALOFT OVER MOST OF
THE MAINLAND PORTIONS OF THE STATE THROUGH AT LEAST MID WEEK THIS
WEEK.

LOW IN THE WESTERN ALEUTIANS WILL BRING GALE AND STORM FORCE WINDS
INTO THE BERING SEA EARLY IN THE WEEK.

.AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...NONE.
MARINE...SEE CURRENT FORECAST.

NOV 05

Event by event

3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Western Aleutians

When: November 7, 1:30 AM AST to 6:00 AM AST
Where: Western Aleutians forecast zone
Measured: 68 kt (78 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

High Wind, Eastern Aleutians

When: November 8, 7:20 AM AST to 12:20 PM AST
Where: Eastern Aleutians forecast zone
Measured: 69 kt (79 mph) measured gust
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

High Wind, Alaska Peninsula

When: November 8, 11:05 AM AST to 2:55 PM AST
Where: Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
Measured: 69 kt (79 mph) measured gust
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

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 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, November 2005

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: 5476839, 5476840, 5476841.