Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Central Beaufort Sea Coast
- When
- December 19, 6:55 PM AKST to December 20, 4:53 AM AKST
- Where
- Central Beaufort Sea Coast forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
Extreme Cold in Alaska, December 19 to 20, 2007
With a cold airmass in place, a weak trough developed inland from the Arctic Coast resulting in winds speeds of 15 mph and creating cold Wind Chills, as reported by the Deadhorse ASOS; the lowest wind chill was 68 F degrees below zero during the period.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 AFG wrote it up.
With a cold airmass in place, a weak trough developed inland from the Arctic Coast resulting in winds speeds of 15 mph and creating cold Wind Chills, as reported by the Deadhorse ASOS; the lowest wind chill was 68 F degrees below zero during the period.
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 Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 19, 9:41 AM AKST, 9 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 9:41 AM AKST, 9 hours 14 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 241 PM AST WED DEC 19 2007 .DISCUSSION... A COLD UPPER LOW CENTERED OVER THE NORTHWEST INTERIOR WILL MOVE WESTWARD IN A WOBBLY TRAJECTORY TO THE CHUKOTSK PENINSULA BY 12Z SUN. SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL SET UP OVER THE EASTERN INTERIOR BY 00Z SAT...BRINGING IN SOME MOISTURE AND MILDER AIR ALOFT. CLOUDS SHOULD BEGIN TO INCREASE OVER THE INTERIOR THURSDAY NIGHT AS THE MOISTURE AND MILDER AIR MOVES NORTHWARD. THE WESTERN INTERIOR WILL SEE LESS MODERATION IN TEMPERATURES...AS THIS AREA WILL BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE COLD UPPER LOW FOR A LONGER TIME. THE WEST COAST WILL REMAIN DRY AND MODERATELY COLD UNDER NORTHERLY FLOW. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN ALASKA RANGE PASSES THURSDAY...CONTINUING INTO FRIDAY. COASTAL HAZARD POTENTIAL DAYS 3 AND 4...NONE && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY WARNING FOR PKZ210-PKZ220. && RF DEC 07
Event by event
1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
- Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Oregon, December 19 to 21, 2007
- Winter Weather in Vermont, December 19 to 20, 2007
- Winter Weather in New York, December 19 to 20, 2007
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, December 19 to 21, 2007
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, December 19, 2007
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, December 19 to 20, 2007
- Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, December 19 to 21, 2007
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 19 to 20, 2007
- Winter Storm in California, December 19 to 20, 2007
- Heavy Snow in Maine, December 19 to 20, 2007
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in California, December 19 to 20, 2007
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 19 to 20, 2007
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 2007
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: 67368.