Heavy Snow, Lynn Canal-Glacier Bay
- When
- December 25, 5:00 AM AST to 8:00 PM AST
- Where
- Lynn Canal-Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 25, 2000
Bands of snow showers dumped up to 1 foot of snow in Haines. Snowfall amounts varied from 4 inches in town to 12 inches at the Customs Station.
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 AJK wrote it up.
Bands of snow showers dumped up to 1 foot of snow in Haines. Snowfall amounts varied from 4 inches in town to 12 inches at the Customs Station.
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
- Heavy Snow in Texas, December 25 to 27, 2000
- Avalanche in Wyoming, December 25, 2000
- Rip Current in California, December 25, 2000
- High Wind in California, December 25 to 26, 2000
- Winter Storm in Texas, December 25 to 27, 2000
- Winter Storm in Texas, December 25 to 27, 2000
- Ice Storm in Arkansas, December 25 to 27, 2000
- Ice Storm in Oklahoma, December 25 to 27, 2000
- Ice Storm in Texas, December 25 to 27, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Maine, December 25 to 26, 2000
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, December 25 to 27, 2000
- Extreme Cold in New Hampshire, December 25 to 26, 2000
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 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: 5161463.