High Wind — Salisbury Sound To Cape Fairweather Coastal Area, Alaska

2011-11-30 · Salisbury Sound To Cape Fairweather Coastal Area, Alaska

Event narrative

Although there were no land stations available to measure surface wind, a nearby marine observation at Cape Spencer had numerous observations of sustained wind in the upper 40s (knots) with a peak wind of 69 KT.

Wider weather episode

On the afternoon of 11.29 a hurricane force low moved into the Eastern Aleutians with a secondary low beginning to develop well to the south. A strong associated front caused an extreme fetch of southerlies over the central and eastern Gulf of Alaska by early on 11.30. On this front the second low rapidly developed with strong surface pressure gradients along the Eastern gulf coast between Salisbury Sound and Cape Suckling. The storm redeveloped well into the interior of Canada causing storm force westerlies to follow on 12.2.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 352873. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.