A strong low moving north over the Chukotsk Peninsula in far east Russia brought very strong winds to the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea coast in northwest Alaska.
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.
The episode as NWS AFG wrote it up.
A strong low moving north over the Chukotsk Peninsula in far east Russia brought very strong winds to the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea coast in northwest Alaska.
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 Oct 15, 1:51 PM AKST, 14 hours 9 minutes earlier.
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</html>2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong southerly winds gusted to 64 mph at Wales and Tin City along the Bering Strait coast, while sustained winds ranged from 45-55 mph.
Strong southerly winds gusted to 64 mph at Point Hope with wind gusts to 60 mph reported at Kivalina.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, October 2020
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: 926909, 926908.