An intense north Pacific storm moved through the western Aleutians producing strong wind in advance of the front.
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The episode as NWS AFC wrote it up.
An intense north Pacific storm moved through the western Aleutians producing strong wind in advance of the front.
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 Mar 28, 11:00 PM AKST, 10 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA
500 AM ADT THU MAR 29 2007
.DISCUSSION...THE OLD LOW IN THE GULF CONTINUES TO WEAKEN WITH A LOW
PRESSURE TROUGH LINGERING ALONG THE PANHANDLE THROUGH SATURDAY. THE
PRESSURE GRADIENT REMAINS TIGHT THIS MORNING ALONG THE NORTH GULF
COAST...BUT WILL EASE UP CONSIDERABLY BY TONIGHT WITH THE LOW
FIZZLING OUT AND A RIDGE BUILDING OVERHEAD.SOUTH CENTRAL ALASKA WILL
REMAIN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH PRESSURE AND REMAIN GENERALLY
SUNNY FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
THE BIG WEATHER WILL BE CONFINED TO THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN ALEUTIAN
ISLANDS. A 965 MB LOW SOUTH OF SHEMYA WILL MOVE NORTH OVER THE NEXT
48 HOURS. PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND WIND IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM
PROMOTING A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR ZONES 187 AND 191. WITH THE RIDGE
HOLDING FIRM OVER SOUTHWEST ALASKA...THE STORM TRACK WILL BRING
ANOTHER LOW...ALTHOUGH WEAKER...ALONG A SIMILAR PATH THIS WEEKEND.
.AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WARNING 187 191.
MARINE...STORM 172 175 176
GALE 170 171 179 185.
FIRE WEATHER...NONE.
JCA MAR 072 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind gusts are estimated from surface analysis combined with QuickScat imagery.
Wind gusts are estimated based upon surface analysis and QuickScat imagery.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 2007
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: 13573, 13574.