Flood Watches in Alaska
264 flood watches 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 264
- Busiest year
- 202323 flood watches
- Average year
- 13over 21 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.
- Juneau City and Borough16
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area11
- Haines Borough11
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area11
- Petersburg Borough10
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area10
- Skagway Municipality9
- City and Borough of Wrangell9
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough8
- Sitka City and Borough7
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough7
- Kenai Peninsula Borough6
- Nome Census Area4
- Northwest Arctic Borough4
- Bethel Census Area4
- Kusilvak Census Area3
- Yakutat City and Borough2
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area2
- Fairbanks North Star Borough2
- North Slope Borough2
- Dillingham Census Area1
- Anchorage Municipality1
- Kodiak Island Borough1
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 12:43 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFC | Bethel Census Area | 4 days |
| Sep 18, 2:52 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AJK | Haines, Skagway Municipality | 61 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:42 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFG | Fairbanks North Star, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 5 days |
| Aug 16, 12:33 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFC | Matanuska-Susitna | 51 hr |
| Jul 31, 1:22 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFC | Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska-Susitna | 5 days |
| Jul 20, 10:01 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFC | Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska-Susitna | 66 hr |
| Jul 17, 9:11 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFC | Anchorage Municipality, Kenai Peninsula | 70 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:52 AM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFG | North Slope, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 3 days |
| May 31, 11:49 AM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFC | Kodiak Island | 53 hr |
| May 12, 7:41 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Northwest Arctic, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 15 days |
| May 5, 12:30 PM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFC | Bethel Census Area | 9 days |
| May 5, 10:55 AM AKDT | Flood Watch | AFG | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 6 days |
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.