High Wind, Ne. Slopes of the Ern Ak Rng
- When
- March 7, 11:35 AM AKST to March 8, 1:15 AM AKST
- Where
- Ne. Slopes of the Ern Ak Rng forecast zone
- Measured
- 73 kt (84 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Mesonet
High Wind in Alaska, March 7 to 8, 2013
A 957 mb low pressure center in the south central Bering Sea moved northward on the 7th of March. The associated weather front moved across the eastern Interior on the night of the 6th through the 7th, The resulting strong chinook flow over the Alaska Range produced high winds in and near the Alaska Range.
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 957 mb low pressure center in the south central Bering Sea moved northward on the 7th of March. The associated weather front moved across the eastern Interior on the night of the 6th through the 7th, The resulting strong chinook flow over the Alaska Range produced high winds in and near the Alaska Range.
Zone 225: There was a peak wind gust to 55 kt (63 mph) at Otto Lake at 1615AKST on the afternoon of the 7th. Based on the peak wind gust at Otto Lake, it is likely that the wind gusted in excess of 70 mph at the Antler Creek DOT site at MP 244 along the Parks Highway.
Zone 226: The wind at the Texas Condo US Army mesonet site gusted to 73 kts (84 mph).
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 7, 11:31 AM AKST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 11:31 AM AKST, 4 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 1131 AM AKST THU MAR 7 2013 .DISCUSSION... MODELS...GOOD AGREEMENT INTO THE MIDTERM CONTINUES SO WILL USE A BLEND THROUGH THAT POINT. LEANING TOWARD THE ECMWF SOLUTION FURTHER OUT. ALOFT...AT 850 HPA...504 DAM CLOSED LOW OVER COLD BAY WILL CONTINUE NORTH TONIGHT TO OVER ST LAWRENCE ISLAND BY FRIDAY MORNING...THEN AS IT IS ABSORBED INTO THE LONG WAVE TROUGH. A CLOSED LOW WILL DEVELOP OVER EASTERN RUSSIA SATURDAY MORNING AND MOVE TO ST LAWRENCE ISLAND BY SATURDAY EVENING. THIS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE PATTERN CHANGE OVER THE AREA AS THE LONG WAVE TROUGH STARTS TO WEAKEN AND MOVES EAST WITH A LOW AMPLITUDE RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE EASTERN BERING SEA AND WEST COAST. AS THE RIDGE BUILDS THE AMPLITUDE INCREASES AND THE TROUGH DIGS IN OVER THE WESTERN CANADIAN PROVINCES CREATING STRONG NORTH FLOW OVER THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE STATE. AT 700 HPA...STRONG WINDS CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY ACROSS THE ALASKA RANGE DIMINISHING BY AFTERNOON FROM 50 TO 70 KT TO AROUND 50 KT. AT 850 HPA...WARM AIR ADVECTION CONTINUES TONIGHT FOR THE INTERIOR WITH WARMEST TEMPERATURES OF 2 ABOVE CELSIUS. COLD AIR ADVECTION BEGINS THIS EVENING ON THE WEST COAST AND THEN MOVES INTO THE INTERIOR FRIDAY. WITH THE PATTERN CHANGE OVER THE WEEKEND WILL COME STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION THAT WILL CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK WITH MODELS CURRENTLY PUSHING TEMPERATURES TO AROUND 25 BELOW CELSIUS BY MID WEEK. SURFACE...955 MB LOW NEAR COLD BAY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH TO NEAR NUNIVAK ISLAND BY FRIDAY MORNING AT 977 MB...THEN CONTINUE TO NEAR THE BERING STRAIT BY FRIDAY EVENING...AND INTO THE CHUKCHI SEA BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 996 MB. BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE MAINLAND. 1040 MB HIGH NEAR 83 N 150 W WILL SLIP NORTH BUT INTERACTION WITH THE LOW ON THE WEST COAST WILL TIGHTEN GRADIENT OVER THE ARCTIC COAST TONIGHT WITH IT REMAINING THAT WAY AT LEAST UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS. FRONTAL SYSTEM WITH THE LOW ON THE WEST COAST WILL DRAG NORTH TODAY THEN SLOWLY WORK EAST AS IT FALLS APART. REMNANTS OF THE FRONT WILL PRODUCE SOME PERIODS OF SNOW OR FLURRIES ACROSS MUSH OF THE INTERIOR INTO SATURDAY. A 994 MB LOW MOVING FROM THE WESTERN BERING SEA ON FRIDAY NIGHT WILL APPROACH THE SOUTHWEST ZONES BY SATURDAY EVENING AS A 1002 MB LOW...IT THEN MOVES SOUTHEAST TO KODIAK ISLAND BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. ARCTIC COAST...A SLIGHT REPRIEVE IN THE WINDS TODAY FOR MOST AREAS...BUT THEY WILL RETURN WITH A VENGEANCE THIS EVENING BRINGING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TO THE COASTAL AND PLAINS AREAS THAT WILL CONTINUE INTO LATE FRIDAY EVENING. ANY SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL WILL BE LIMITED TO THE NORTHWEST COAST THROUGH SATURDAY. WEST COAST...WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR MOST AREAS. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF FROM THE SOUTH THROUGH THE NIGHT. A CHANCE FOR SOME FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING FOR THE COASTAL AREAS AND NEAR THE NULATO HILLS. HEAVIEST SNOW WILL BE NEAR THE COAST...IN THE NULATO HILLS...AND OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE SEWARD PENINSULA. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THEN DROP 10 TO 15 F SATURDAY. INTERIOR...PRECIPITATION WILL BE SHADOWED OUT WITH THE STRONG CHINOOK FLOW ACROSS THE ALASKA RANGE. WITH THE WARM AIR ADVECTION COMES WARMER TEMPERATURES...THEY WILL FALL SLOWLY BEGINNING FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH SIGNIFICANT COOLING BEGINNING SATURDAY THAT WILL CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK. LIGHT SNOW OR FLURRIES WILL OCCUR SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS THE DISSIPATING FRONTAL SYSTEM SLIDES EAST. WE WILL ALSO SEE SOME SNOW FALL AS THE STRONGER COLD AIR ADVECTION PUSHES SOUTH ON MONDAY NIGHT. MID RANGE...MUCH COLDER NEXT WEEK WITH CLEAR CONDITIONS IN THE INTERIOR. ALONG THE WEST COAST THEY WILL BE CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS AND SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY FOR AKZ223. HIGH WIND WARNING FOR AKZ225-AKZ226-AKZ227. BLIZZARD WARNING FOR AKZ201-AKZ202-AKZ203-AKZ204. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR AKZ205-AKZ206-AKZ212-AKZ214-AKZ215- AKZ216. GALE WARNING FOR PKZ200-PKZ210-PKZ215-PKZ220-PKZ230-PKZ235- PKZ240-PKZ245. BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ225. && SDB MAR 13
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Denali
- When
- March 7, 4:15 PM AKST to 5:00 PM AKST
- Where
- Denali forecast zone
- Measured
- 69 kt (79 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Mesonet
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
- Cold in Wisconsin, March 7 to 8, 2013
- Coastal Flood and Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, March 7 to 9, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New York, March 7 to 8, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Jersey, March 7 to 8, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New York, March 7 to 8, 2013
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Colorado, March 7 to 9, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Jersey, March 7 to 8, 2013
- Coastal Flood in New York, March 7 to 9, 2013
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, March 7 to 8, 2013
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, March 7 to 8, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Rhode Island, March 7 to 9, 2013
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, March 7 to 8, 2013
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: 443268, 443270.