High Wind — Aleutian Islands, Alaska

2000-01-31 · Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Wider weather episode

An extremely intense 940 mb storm moved from the north Pacific to the Island of Amchitka Monday afternoon. The low continued to deepen as it moved into the extreme south-central Bering Sea just before midnight. This major storm system began a cascade of severe winter weather across the Anchorage area of responsibility during the following week.Reported winds, which were very sparse, across the Aleutians gusted to 61 mph at Adak alte Monday. A ship report very close to Atka registered 75 mph sustained winds at 3pm Monday. Undoubtedly there were much stronger gusts across the area.Across the Pribilofs, wind gusts of 74 mph were recorded at Saint Paul just prior to midnight, accompanied by blizzard conditions in heavy snow and blowing snow. Winds at Saint George peaked at 68 mph just prior to 9pm...then reports ceased from the Island until Wednesday afternoon.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5127588. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.