Blizzard, St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast
- When
- January 12, 12:00 PM AST to January 13, 10:00 PM AST
- Where
- St. Lawrence Island-Bering Strait Coast forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Blizzard in Alaska, January 12 to 14, 1999
A cold front over the Chukchi Sea moved southeast and stalled over the West Coast of Alaska while low pressure over outer Bristol Bay moved to Southwest Alaska then weakened and moved north to Kotzebue Sound before dissipating. Blizzard conditions reported at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island and Tin City on the Bering Strait Coast (Zone 9) and Deering on the Northern Seward Peninsula (Zone 3).
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
A cold front over the Chukchi Sea moved southeast and stalled over the West Coast of Alaska while low pressure over outer Bristol Bay moved to Southwest Alaska then weakened and moved north to Kotzebue Sound before dissipating. Blizzard conditions reported at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island and Tin City on the Bering Strait Coast (Zone 9) and Deering on the Northern Seward Peninsula (Zone 3).
Event by event
2 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.
Blizzard, Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula
- When
- January 13, 1:00 PM AST to January 14, 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
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
- Dense Fog in California, January 12 to 13, 1999
- Winter Weather in Michigan, January 12 to 14, 1999
- Winter Weather in Maine, January 12, 1999
- Winter Weather in New Hampshire, January 12, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 12 to 13, 1999
- Cold in Michigan, January 12, 1999
- Heavy Rain in American Samoa, January 12, 1999
- Winter Weather in Maine, January 12, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 12, 1999
- High Wind in Louisiana, January 12, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, January 12 to 13, 1999
More
Every storm in Alaska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 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: 5681943, 5681942.