Flood in Alaska, June 15 to 21, 1997

Name: Flood in Alaska, June 15 to 21, 1997
Start: 1997-06-15T04:30
End: 1997-06-21T17:00
Location: Alaska

June 15 to 21, 1997 · NWS AFG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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.

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Upper Yukon Valley

When: June 15, 4:30 AM AST to June 21, 5:00 PM AST
Where: Upper Yukon Valley forecast zone

Rain of up to 3.8 inches during the 12th through 15th caused significant rises in streams over the zone. Several homes were flooded at Chalkyitsik on the Black River, and a road at Fort Yukon had some minor flooding near the confluence of the Porcupine and Sucker Rivers.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alaska in 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, June 1997

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: 5598352.