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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Fairbanks, AK

January 9, 2024Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska

NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this winter storm warning at Jan 9, 2024, 6:08 AM AKST for Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska. It took effect at Jan 10, 2024, 3:00 AM AKST. It was in force for 4 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 9, 2024, 6:08 AM AKST (15:08 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 10, 2024, 3:00 AM AKST
Expired: Jan 14, 2024, 5:59 AM AKST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Fairbanks, AK

Counties Kusilvak Census Area, AK, Nome Census Area, AK, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK

The radar

The Nome radar (PAEC), 241 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Jan 8, 3:09 PM AKST, 14 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 3:09 PM AKST, 14 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 6:26 AM AKST	Brisk Wind Advisory	AFG		56 hr
Jan 9, 6:26 AM AKST	Gale Warning	AFG		24 hr
Jan 9, 6:31 AM AKST	Brisk Wind Advisory	AFG		24 hr
Jan 9, 6:31 AM AKST	Small Craft Advisory	AFG		8 hr
Jan 9, 12:52 PM AKST	Wind Advisory	AFG	Fairbanks North Star, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	65 hr
Jan 9, 12:55 PM AKST	High Wind Watch	AFG	Northwest Arctic	6 hr
Jan 9, 12:56 PM AKST	Winter Weather Advisory	AFG	Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	65 hr
Jan 9, 2:22 PM AKST	Brisk Wind Advisory	AFG		16 hr
Jan 9, 2:22 PM AKST	Brisk Wind Advisory	AFG		48 hr
Jan 9, 2:22 PM AKST	Gale Warning	AFG		6 days

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.