Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 6 to 7, 1999

Name: Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 6 to 7, 1999
Start: 1999-01-06T14:00
End: 1999-01-07T03:30
Location: Alaska

January 6 to 7, 1999 · NWS AJK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, 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 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Frederick Sound-Kupreanof-Wrangell Islands to Ernest South

When: January 6, 2:00 PM AST to January 7, 3:30 AM AST
Where: Frederick Sound-Kupreanof-Wrangell Islands to Ernest South forecast zone
Reported by: METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)

Petersburg 24 hour snowfall 8.0 inches due widespread overrunning of Gulf of Alaska moisture over arctic air in the central inner channels of Southeast Alaska.

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

Every storm in Alaska in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5689110.