High Wind, Ern Norton Sound Nulato Hills
- When
- January 10, 6:56 AM AKST to 8:36 AM AKST
- Where
- Ern Norton Sound Nulato Hills forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- AWOS
High Wind in Alaska, January 10, 2010
A 954 mb low in the Gulf of Alaska combined with a 1043 mb high across the Brooks Range to produce two periods of high winds at Unalakleet. The first occurred during the early morning hours on the 10th when there was a measured wind gust to 55 kt/63 mph at the Unalakleet AWOS.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
A 954 mb low in the Gulf of Alaska combined with a 1043 mb high across the Brooks Range to produce two periods of high winds at Unalakleet. The first occurred during the early morning hours on the 10th when there was a measured wind gust to 55 kt/63 mph at the Unalakleet AWOS. The second period of high winds occurred during the late afternoon and evening hours on the 10th when there was a peak wind gust of 53kt/61 mph at the Unalakleet AWOS.
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 Jan 10, 5:20 AM AKST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 5:20 AM AKST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 520 AM AKST SUN JAN 10 2010 .SYNOPSIS... ALOFT... A RIDGE OVER THE BERING STRAIT WILL PERSIST BUT WEAKEN SLOWLY THROUGH TUE. A SHORT WAVE TROUGH OVER THE NORTHEAST INTERIOR WILL MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST INTERIOR SUN 3PM THEN MOVE EAST INTO CANADA. THIS WILL CAUSE INCREASING WINDS SOUTH OF 65N LATITUDE TODAY. THIS WILL ALSO KEEP FLURRIES IN THE EXTREME SE INTERIOR. SURFACE... A 1041 MB HIGH NEAR BARROW WILL MOVE OVER THE BEAUFORT SEA AND YUKON TERRITORY SUN PM AND THEN PERSIST INTO TUE. THIS WILL CAUSE EAST WINDS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE ARCTIC COAST SUN PM. THIS WILL ALSO CAUSE COLD DRAINAGE WINDS DOWN THE TANANA AND YUKON RIVER TO DEVELOP SUN PM AND CONTINUE INTO TUE. AN OCCLUDED FRONT IN THE GULF OF ALASKA WILL MOVE ALONG THE GULF OF ALASKA COAST MON AND THEN DISSIPATE AS ANOTHER FRONT/LOW MOVES INTO THE NORTHERN GULF OF ALASKA. THIS WILL KEEP A STRONG SURFACE GRADIENT OVER THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR. THIS WILL ALSO BRING A CHANCE OF SNOW TO THE SOUTHEAST INTERIOR MON PM-TUE. A WEATHER FRONT WEST OF WRANGEL ISLAND WILL MOVE TO THE WESTERN ARCTIC COAST OF ALASKA BY 3AM TUE AND TO THE CENTRAL ARCTIC COAST BY 3PM TUE. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SNOW WITH THIS. && .DISCUSSION... MODELS INITIALIZE WELL AND SHOW SIMILAR PATTERNS. THE NAM AGAIN DROPS MORE SHORT WAVE ENERGY SOUTH ALONG THE ALCAN BORDER TODAY THAN DOES THE GFS. THE GFS MOVES MORE OF THE SHORT WAVE ENERGY EAST INTO CANADA. WE AGAIN FAVOR THE GFS. THE RESULT IS THAT THE GFS HAS A BIT LESS WIND AT 700 AND 850 MB OVER THE INTERIOR THAT THE NAM. THIS WILL MEAN SLIGHTLY LESS WIND OVER THE EASTERN INTERIOR THAN THE NAM WOULD SHOW. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND CHILL WATCH FOR AKZ201-AKZ202-AKZ203-AKZ204. WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR AKZ201. WIND ADVISORY FOR AKZ215. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR AKZ219-AKZ220-AKZ221-AKZ223. BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ200-PKZ210. && JB JAN 10
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Ern Norton Sound Nulato Hills
- When
- January 10, 4:56 PM AKST to 10:16 PM AKST
- Where
- Ern Norton Sound Nulato Hills forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- AWOS
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
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- Winter Weather in Michigan, January 10 to 11, 2010
More
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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: 201851, 201850.