Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Yukon Flats Nearby Uplands
- When
- March 5, 5:00 AM AKST to 11:59 PM AKST
- Where
- Yukon Flats Nearby Uplands forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
Extreme Cold in Alaska, March 5, 2007
Strong low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska and strong high pressure over the North slope created dangerous wind chills over Steese Highway summit due to the cold airmass and winds speeds of 25 to 30 mph. Wind chills to -66 F were reported by the Meteorburst Site at Eagle Summit.
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.
Strong low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska and strong high pressure over the North slope created dangerous wind chills over Steese Highway summit due to the cold airmass and winds speeds of 25 to 30 mph. Wind chills to -66 F were reported by the Meteorburst Site at Eagle Summit.
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 Mar 5, 3:07 AM AKST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 3:07 AM AKST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 807 AM AST MON MAR 5 2007 .DISCUSSION... ALOFT...LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER EASTERN ALASKA SOUTHWARD OVER EASTERN PACIFIC AND RIDGE OVER FAR EAST RUSSIA PERSISTING. LOW OVER SIBERIA WILL MOVE OVER RIDGETOP TUE THEN DROP SOUTH OVER WESTERN AK WED AND MERGE WITH GULF OF ALASKA LOW ON THU. SURFACE...1047 MB HIGH FROM BARROW NORTHWEST INTO CHUKCHI SEA WILL MOVE TO BANKS ISLAND AND WESTERN CANADA TUE PM AND WEAKEN TO 1032 MB. LOW OVER GULF OF ALASKA WILL MEANDER AND HELP KEEP TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER SOUTHERN HALF OF ALASKA THROUGH TUESDAY. DEVELOPING LOW OVER RUSSIA FAR EAST MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL CHUKCHI SEA TUE THEN DISSIPATE OVER THE WESTERN ARCTIC COAST OF ALASKA. MODELS...CONTINUE TO BE IN GOOD AGREEMENT. IN MID-TERM BOTH U.S. AND ECMWF HANG ONTO COLD PATTERN...IN ALMOST IDENTICAL FASHION... OVER ALASKA AT LEAST...THROUGH DAY 10. NORTH SLOPE...ADVISORY WIND CHILLS THROUGH PASSES OF THE NORTHEAST BROOKS RANGE AND A WARNING FOR THE WESTERN ARCTIC COAST NEAR POINT LAY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY. SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY SUNNY TODAY. CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE OVER THE WESTERN PORTION WITH WITH FLURRIES DEVELOPING LATE TONIGHT...EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. WESTERN ALASKA...INCOMING LOW FROM RUSSIA BRINGING BRISK SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER WESTERN MARINE AREA 225 TODAY BUT A LESSER INCREASE IN WIND OCCURRING OVER LAND AREAS TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY. TODAY WILL BE MOSTLY SUNNY WITH INCREASING CLOUDS TONIGHT AND A CHANCE OF SNOW OVER NORTHERN COASTAL ZONES AS WELL AS ZONE 213 TUESDAY. CENTRAL/EASTERN INTERIOR...WINDY THROUGH ALASKA RANGE PASSES AND HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF ZONES 220-222 TODAY RESULTING IN ADVISORY WIND CHILLS. AREAS OF CLOUDS AND FLURRIES NEAR WESTERN ALASKA RANGE WILL LINGER THROUGH TODAY...MORE CLOUDS ARE LIKELY TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT OVER ZONES 224 AND 226 FROM WRAPAROUND MOISTURE OF LOW DYING OVER SOUTHEAST ALASKA. COASTAL HAZARD POTENTIAL DAYS 3 AND 4...NONE. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR AKZ206-AKZ220-AKZ221-AKZ222-AKZ225- AKZ226. WIND CHILL WARNING FOR AKZ201. BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ225. && JHD/JL MAR 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
- Winter Weather in New York, March 5, 2007
- Wildfire and Strong Wind in Virginia, March 5, 2007
- Strong Wind in New Jersey, March 5 to 6, 2007
- Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, March 5 to 6, 2007
- Strong Wind in Maryland, March 5 to 6, 2007
- Strong Wind in Delaware, March 5 to 6, 2007
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in Alaska, March 5 to 7, 2007
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2007
- Flooding in Indiana, March 5 to 11, 2007
- High Wind in Alaska, March 5 to 6, 2007
- Extreme Cold in Alaska, March 5 to 6, 2007
- Lake-Effect Snow in New York, March 5, 2007
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 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: 12264.