Winter Storm Watches in Alaska
783 winter storm 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 783
- Busiest year
- 202480 winter storm watches
- Average year
- 36over 22 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.
- North Slope Borough48
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area38
- Nome Census Area34
- Skagway Municipality33
- Haines Borough29
- Kusilvak Census Area28
- Northwest Arctic Borough21
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area20
- Juneau City and Borough19
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area14
- Denali Borough13
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area12
- Petersburg Borough12
- Yakutat City and Borough9
- City and Borough of Wrangell9
- Sitka City and Borough9
- Bethel Census Area8
- Fairbanks North Star Borough7
- Aleutians West Census Area7
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough5
- Dillingham Census Area4
- Kenai Peninsula Borough3
- Chugach Census Area2
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough2
- Anchorage Municipality2
- Aleutians East Borough2
- Bristol Bay Borough2
- Lake and Peninsula Borough2
- Copper River Census Area1
- Kodiak Island Borough1
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:20 PM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | North Slope | 25 hr |
| Apr 20, 2:11 PM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Northwest Arctic | 27 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:46 PM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 23 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:41 AM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | Nome Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 24 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:02 AM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | Denali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 33 hr |
| Mar 20, 4:03 AM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AJK | Haines, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Juneau City and, Petersburg, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Sitka City and and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:07 PM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | North Slope | 24 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:16 PM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | Denali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 22 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:15 PM AKST | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | North Slope | 31 hr |
| Mar 5, 5:39 AM AKST | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | Nome Census Area | 9 hr |
| Mar 4, 9:26 PM AKST | Winter Storm Watch | AFC | Kenai Peninsula | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:43 AM AKST | Winter Storm Watch | AFC | Aleutians East, Aleutians West Census Area, Bristol Bay, Dillingham Census Area, Lake and Peninsula | 26 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.