Alert archive / Alaska / Blizzard Watches / 2016

Blizzard Watches in Alaska, December 2016

4 blizzard watches in December 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 December 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Blizzard Watches
4
Busiest day
December 28, 20162 blizzard watches

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 23, 3:48 AM AKSTBlizzard WatchAFC6 hr
Dec 27, 3:10 PM AKSTBlizzard WatchAFG15 hr
Dec 27, 4:36 PM AKSTBlizzard WatchAFG14 hr
Dec 29, 1:54 PM AKSTBlizzard WatchAFG13 hr

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.