Extreme Cold Warnings in Alaska
15 extreme cold 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 15
- Busiest year
- 20257 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 5over 3 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.
- Skagway Municipality5
- North Slope Borough3
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area2
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area2
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area2
- Northwest Arctic Borough2
- Bethel Census Area2
- Lake and Peninsula Borough2
- Haines Borough1
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area1
- Juneau City and Borough1
- Yakutat City and Borough1
- Petersburg Borough1
- Sitka City and Borough1
- City and Borough of Wrangell1
- Chugach Census Area1
- Copper River Census Area1
- Dillingham Census Area1
- Bristol Bay Borough1
The latest extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 9:35 AM AKST | Extreme Cold Warning | AFG | North Slope | 3 days |
| Feb 8, 9:30 AM AKST | Extreme Cold Warning | AFG | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 67 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:47 AM AKST | Extreme Cold Warning | AFG | North Slope, Northwest Arctic | 38 hr |
| Jan 10, 9:04 PM AKST | Extreme Cold Warning | AFC | Bethel Census Area, Lake and Peninsula | 66 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:58 AM AKST | Extreme Cold Warning | AFC | Bethel Census Area, Bristol Bay, Dillingham Census Area, Lake and Peninsula | 3 days |
| Jan 2, 3:53 AM AKST | Extreme Cold Warning | AFC | Chugach Census Area, Copper River Census Area | 60 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.