Flood in Alaska, August 21 to 23, 1999

Name: Flood in Alaska, August 21 to 23, 1999
Start: 1999-08-21T13:30
End: 1999-08-23T09:00
Location: Alaska

August 21 to 23, 1999 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Cook Inlet

When: August 21, 1:30 PM AST to August 23, 9:00 AM AST
Where: Cook Inlet forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Water levels were reported to have risen over six feet on the Beluga river since Friday morning. It was thought that the Strandline Glacier dammed Lake released. A Flood warning was issued for the Beluga River at 2:30 pm (ADT) Saturday and was cancelled at 10 am (ADT) Monday.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alaska in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, August 1999

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: 5706692.