Heavy Snow, Cook Inlet
- When
- December 3, 12:00 PM AST to December 4, 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Cook Inlet forecast zone
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 3 to 4, 1998
closing several schools, causing major transportation delays and resulting in several power outages for Homer Electric. At the Alyeska ski resort, worried owners were relieved at the 1 1/2 to 2 feet of new snow received at the mid and top levels.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- 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.
Heavy snow was reported across the Kenai Peninsula late Thursday and Friday...with areas around Kenai and Nikiski receiving in excess of 1 foot of snow in about 18 hours...closing several schools, causing major transportation delays and resulting in several power outages for Homer Electric. At the Alyeska ski resort, worried owners were relieved at the 1 1/2 to 2 feet of new snow received at the mid and top levels. Cold arctic air, already in place across the mainland, led to areas of freezing rain as far east as the Kenai Peninsula.
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 Puerto Rico, December 3, 1998
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, December 3, 1998
- Drought in Pennsylvania, December 3 to 31, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, December 3 to 4, 1998
- High Wind in Hawaii, December 3 to 5, 1998
- Drought in Maryland, December 3 to 31, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 3 to 4, 1998
- Heat in Oklahoma, December 3, 1998
- Heavy Snow in California, December 3, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 3 to 4, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 3 to 5, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 3 to 4, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 1998
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: 5670597.