Blizzard, Arctic Slope Coastal
- When
- March 5, 9:00 AM AST to 3:00 PM AST
- Where
- Arctic Slope Coastal forecast zone
Blizzard in Alaska, March 5, 1998
Blizzard conditions occured at Point Lay only, under east winds gusting as high as 36 kts.
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.
Blizzard conditions occured at Point Lay only, under east winds gusting as high as 36 kts.
Event by event
1 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Blizzard
- Sustained winds or frequent gusts of 35 mph or more with falling or blowing snow that cuts visibility below a quarter mile for three hours or longer.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Utah, March 5 to 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, March 5, 1998
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Mississippi, March 5, 1998
- Hail in Mississippi, March 5, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 5, 1998
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 5 to 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, March 5, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 5 to 6, 1998
- Winter Storm in California, March 5 to 6, 1998
- Hail in Louisiana, March 5, 1998
- Hail in Arkansas, March 5, 1998
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 5, 1998
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 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: 5632194.