Avalanche, Cook Inlet
- When
- April 6, 12:00 PM AST to 6:00 PM AST
- Where
- Cook Inlet forecast zone
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Avalanche in Alaska, April 6, 1999
The electricity went out in two Kenai Peninsula communities Tuesday afternoon after an avalanche knocked trees into a power line at Mile 29 of the Seward Highway. The tree/line collision sparked a small fire, which burned out quickly and short-circuited power to Cooper Landing and Moose Pass.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- 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.
The electricity went out in two Kenai Peninsula communities Tuesday afternoon after an avalanche knocked trees into a power line at Mile 29 of the Seward Highway. The tree/line collision sparked a small fire, which burned out quickly and short-circuited power to Cooper Landing and Moose Pass. 334 customers were without power for several hours.
Event by event
1 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Avalanche
- A mass of snow sliding down a mountainside that caused a death, an injury or damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Iowa, April 6 to 15, 1999
- High Wind in Ohio, April 6, 1999
- High Wind in Ohio, April 6, 1999
- High Wind in Ohio, April 6, 1999
- Strong Wind in Michigan, April 6, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, April 6 to 7, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, April 6, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 6 to 7, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, April 6, 1999
- Flood in North Dakota, April 6 to 15, 1999
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 15, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, April 6, 1999
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: 5689676.