Alert archive / Alaska / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in Alaska, 2024
57 blizzard warnings in 2024. 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 in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 57
- Busiest month
- January13 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- January 6, 20243 blizzard warnings
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Alaska Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 4:40 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 28 hr | |
| Jan 5, 3:21 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 25 hr | |
| Jan 6, 4:04 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area | 31 hr |
| Jan 6, 4:11 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 53 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:58 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 51 hr | |
| Jan 12, 3:39 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 46 hr |
| Jan 14, 1:22 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 71 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:05 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 6 hr |
| Jan 16, 2:30 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 21 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:32 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 11 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:30 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 24 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:11 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 12 hr |
| Jan 31, 2:08 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 55 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:37 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 37 hr | |
| Feb 3, 12:42 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 19 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:02 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 18 hr | |
| Feb 15, 5:36 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 15 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:26 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area | 66 hr |
| Feb 19, 2:27 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area | 7 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:39 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 3 days |
| Feb 21, 5:23 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 10 hr | |
| Feb 21, 3:07 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AJK | Skagway Municipality | 30 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:22 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area | 38 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:11 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 36 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:31 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 57 hr |
| Mar 17, 10:22 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 30 hr | |
| Mar 18, 3:35 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 25 hr | |
| Mar 18, 5:31 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area | 57 hr |
| Mar 26, 12:13 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 45 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:17 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 14 hr | |
| Mar 29, 12:15 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic | 71 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:56 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 29 hr | |
| Mar 30, 3:45 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 48 hr |
| Apr 1, 11:40 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 37 hr | |
| Apr 1, 3:34 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic | 54 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:10 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:42 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 43 hr | |
| Apr 9, 4:26 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic | 4 days |
| Apr 11, 3:48 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 24 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:00 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area | 30 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:15 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 11 hr |
| Apr 18, 7:48 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 22 hr | |
| Apr 24, 1:09 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 57 hr |
| May 14, 10:50 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area | 24 hr |
| May 15, 1:16 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 22 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:06 PM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 56 hr |
| Oct 28, 4:49 AM AKDT | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 53 hr | |
| Nov 4, 3:37 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 29 hr | |
| Nov 4, 4:23 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 35 hr | |
| Nov 13, 1:22 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFC | 39 hr | |
| Nov 17, 1:44 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 41 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:58 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 65 hr |
| Nov 18, 4:24 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic | 46 hr |
| Nov 30, 12:18 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 18 hr |
| Dec 3, 2:15 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 37 hr |
| Dec 9, 10:38 AM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 12:58 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 3 days |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.