High Surf Advisories in Alaska
259 high surf advisories 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 high surf advisories reaches back to 2005.
High Surf Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Surf Advisories
- 259
- Busiest year
- 201523 high surf advisories
- Average year
- 12over 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.
The latest high surf advisories
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 10:02 AM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 39 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:09 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFC | Bethel Census Area | 20 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:07 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, North Slope, Northwest Arctic | 5 days |
| Sep 2, 2:06 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFG | Nome Census Area | 69 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:54 AM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 31 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:08 AM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFC | Bethel Census Area | 32 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:39 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area | 62 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:30 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area | 40 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:35 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFC | Bethel Census Area | 50 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:42 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area | 23 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:11 PM AKDT | High Surf Advisory | AFC | Kenai Peninsula | 36 hr |
| Jan 5, 8:03 AM AKST | High Surf Advisory | AFC | Kenai Peninsula | 48 hr |
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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.