Heavy Snow, Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway
- When
- February 8, 12:00 AM AST to February 11, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway forecast zone
- Property damage
- $45,000
Heavy Snow in Alaska, February 8 to 11, 1996
A series of arctic frontal lows moving northward through Prince William Sound brought nearly two feet of snow to the City of Anchorage and over three feet of snow to the surrounding Anchorage hillside. Schools were closed for two days and many offices were closed.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $45,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS AFC wrote it up.
A series of arctic frontal lows moving northward through Prince William Sound brought nearly two feet of snow to the City of Anchorage and over three feet of snow to the surrounding Anchorage hillside. Schools were closed for two days and many offices were closed. After a literal drought during the first half of the winter season, snowfall returned to normal (ALL AT ONCE!)
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Rain in West Virginia, February 8, 1996
- Flood in Idaho, February 8 to 20, 1996
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, February 8, 1996
- High Wind in Oregon, February 8 to 9, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, February 8, 1996
- Flood in Idaho, February 8 to 20, 1996
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, February 8, 1996
- Flood in Montana, February 8 to 10, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, February 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, February 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, February 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, February 8, 1996
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5541033.