Winter Weather Advisories in Alaska
3,638 winter weather 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 winter weather advisories reaches back to 2005.
Winter Weather Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Weather Advisories
- 3,638
- Busiest year
- 2021278 winter weather advisories
- Average year
- 165over 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 Borough159
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area98
- Nome Census Area90
- Skagway Municipality55
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area54
- Kusilvak Census Area54
- Northwest Arctic Borough53
- Haines Borough46
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area45
- Juneau City and Borough42
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area41
- Fairbanks North Star Borough36
- Yakutat City and Borough29
- Denali Borough26
- Kenai Peninsula Borough26
- Bethel Census Area25
- Sitka City and Borough24
- Petersburg Borough24
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough23
- Anchorage Municipality20
- City and Borough of Wrangell17
- Chugach Census Area17
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough15
- Copper River Census Area13
- Lake and Peninsula Borough9
- Dillingham Census Area9
- Aleutians East Borough8
- Aleutians West Census Area8
- Kodiak Island Borough6
- Bristol Bay Borough4
The latest winter weather advisories
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 4:22 AM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 42 hr |
| Aug 27, 11:13 AM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 50 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:03 PM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 37 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:53 PM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 41 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:14 AM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 35 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:58 PM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 57 hr |
| May 30, 6:35 AM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFC | Matanuska-Susitna | 2 hr |
| May 17, 12:38 PM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | Nome Census Area | 21 hr |
| May 13, 6:25 AM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 14 hr |
| May 10, 10:30 AM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 7 hr |
| May 4, 2:25 PM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 39 hr |
| May 1, 6:53 PM AKDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 8 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.