Alert archive / Alaska

Weather alerts in Alaska, 2006

3,479 weather alerts in 2006, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2006. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,479
Warnings
1,447
Watches
62
Advisories
1,970
Busiest month
February444 alerts
Busiest day
November 30, 200626 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

3,479 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

ProductAlerts
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning2
Flood Watch3
Winter
Blizzard Warning37
Heavy Snow Warning4
Winter Storm Warning21
Blizzard Watch17
Winter Storm Watch15
Blowing Snow Advisory52
Freezing Rain Advisory5
Snow Advisory24
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory2
Winter Weather Advisory66
Cold
Wind Chill Warning11
Frost Advisory1
Wind Chill Advisory72
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning25
High Wind Watch20
Wind Advisory21
Fire
Red Flag Warning8
Fire Weather Watch3
Fog and smoke
Ashfall Advisory1
Dense Fog Advisory21
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning3
Coastal Flood Watch4
Coastal Flood Advisory1
High Surf Advisory13
Marine
Gale Warning865
Heavy Freezing Spray Warning261
Hurricane Force Wind Warning16
Storm Warning194
Brisk Wind Advisory300
Small Craft Advisory1,391

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 30, 200626alerts
  2. December 27, 200626alerts
  3. February 24, 200624alerts
  4. November 29, 200624alerts
  5. January 22, 200623alerts
  6. February 4, 200623alerts
  7. March 18, 200623alerts
  8. February 3, 200622alerts
  9. February 6, 200622alerts
  10. March 1, 200622alerts
  11. March 8, 200620alerts
  12. March 17, 200620alerts

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.