Heavy Snow, Tanana Valley
- When
- August 18, 12:00 AM AST to 9:00 AM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
Heavy Snow in Alaska, August 18, 1998
In Denali Park, Polychrome Pass at mile 46 Denali Park Road received up to 8 inches of snow overnight. Traffic was stopped at the Teklanika Rest Stop until the road was cleared at 11:45 am.
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 AFG wrote it up.
In Denali Park, Polychrome Pass at mile 46 Denali Park Road received up to 8 inches of snow overnight. Traffic was stopped at the Teklanika Rest Stop until the road was cleared at 11:45 am.
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
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- Flood in Texas, August 18 to 19, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, August 18, 1998
- Flood in Texas, August 18 to 19, 1998
- Lightning Strike in North Dakota, August 18, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 18, 1998
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, August 18 to 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 18, 1998
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Connecticut, August 18, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 18, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, August 18, 1998
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: 5656472.