Blizzard Warnings in Alaska
1,083 blizzard warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 1,083
- Busiest year
- 200984 blizzard warnings
- Average year
- 49over 22 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- North Slope Borough66
- Nome Census Area35
- Northwest Arctic Borough19
- Kusilvak Census Area19
- Bethel Census Area11
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area5
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area5
- Denali Borough4
- Chugach Census Area4
- Aleutians West Census Area3
- Juneau City and Borough2
- Fairbanks North Star Borough2
- Copper River Census Area2
- Dillingham Census Area2
- Aleutians East Borough2
- Skagway Municipality1
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough1
- Bristol Bay Borough1
- Lake and Peninsula Borough1
- Kodiak Island Borough1
The latest blizzard warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:43 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 27 hr |
| May 1, 11:48 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:31 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 5:11 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic | 46 hr |
| Apr 20, 10:58 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Northwest Arctic | 11 hr |
| Apr 18, 11:20 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area | 25 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:35 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Northwest Arctic | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 12:25 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 42 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:46 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Northwest Arctic | 7 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:32 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 37 hr |
| Mar 11, 7:59 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area | 21 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:03 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | Aleutians East | 14 hr |
Nearby
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.