Heavy Snow, Tanana Valley
- When
- April 22, 11:00 PM AST to April 24, 8:00 AM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 22 to 24, 2000
A trough of low pressure moved slowly west across the Tanana Valley during the time period, causing 8 to nearly 14 inches of snow to fall on the Parks Highway from Healy to Denali Park. A-paid/Co-operative observer reports:Healy: 8 inches in the 24 hours ending 8pm on the 23rd.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS AFG wrote it up.
A trough of low pressure moved slowly west across the Tanana Valley during the time period, causing 8 to nearly 14 inches of snow to fall on the Parks Highway from Healy to Denali Park. A-paid/Co-operative observer reports:Healy: 8 inches in the 24 hours ending 8pm on the 23rd. Denali Park: 13.6 inches in the 36 hours ending 9am on the 24th; the first 10.2 inches fell by 4pm on the 23rd.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Dense Fog in California, April 22, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Maine, April 22 to 26, 2000
- High Surf in California, April 22, 2000
- High Wind in Texas, April 22, 2000
- Wildfire in Florida, April 22, 2000
- High Wind in California, April 22 to 23, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Rhode Island, April 22 to 24, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, April 22 to 23, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, April 22 to 23, 2000
- Hail in Texas, April 22, 2000
- Flash Flood in Connecticut, April 22, 2000
- High Wind in Texas, April 22, 2000
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, April 2000
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: 5143018.