Avalanche in Alaska, March 26, 1999

Name: Avalanche in Alaska, March 26, 1999
Start: 1999-03-26T00:00
End: 1999-03-26T23:59
Location: Alaska

March 26, 1999 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 avalanche, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $2,000
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.

Event by event

1 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.

Avalanche, Central Gulf Coast

When: March 26, 12:00 AM AST to 11:59 PM AST
Where: Central Gulf Coast forecast zone
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER

Two avalanches were reported in the Anchorage Daily News Friday...both occurring on the railroad route from Anchorage to Grandview (a popular late winter/spring cross country ski area). Power was out for an hour and a half, as the blast of air from one of the avalanches caused transmission wires to slap together near Canyon Creek, tripping breakers at substations in Anchorage and near Cooper Landing.

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

Every storm in Alaska in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, March 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: 5681126.