Heavy Snow, Central Southeast Alaska
- When
- March 10, 2:00 AM AST to 10:00 AM AST
- Where
- Central Southeast Alaska forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Alaska, March 10, 1997
Microscale non-convective event affected only downtown Juneau and Douglas, 6 to 9 inches storm total. Juneau International Airport only trace amount of snow.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
Microscale non-convective event affected only downtown Juneau and Douglas, 6 to 9 inches storm total. Juneau International Airport only trace amount of snow.
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
More
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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: 5597918.