Alert archive / Alaska / Blizzard Watches
Blizzard Watches in Alaska, 2016
12 blizzard watches in 2016. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- December4 blizzard watches
- Busiest day
- December 28, 20162 blizzard watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 4:01 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFC | 13 hr | |
| Jan 27, 1:56 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFG | 86 min | |
| Feb 18, 4:53 AM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFC | 8 hr | |
| Feb 23, 9:34 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFG | 17 hr | |
| Feb 25, 12:57 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFG | 16 hr | |
| Mar 26, 4:47 AM AKDT | Blizzard Watch | AFC | 11 hr | |
| Nov 24, 4:24 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFC | 18 hr | |
| Nov 27, 6:30 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFC | 21 hr | |
| Dec 23, 3:48 AM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFC | 6 hr | |
| Dec 27, 3:10 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFG | 15 hr | |
| Dec 27, 4:36 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFG | 14 hr | |
| Dec 29, 1:54 PM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFG | 13 hr |
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.