Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 28 to 29, 2000

Name: Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 28 to 29, 2000
Start: 2000-12-28T00:00
End: 2000-12-29T23:59
Location: Alaska

December 28 to 29, 2000 · NWS AFC · 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: $5,000
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 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns

When: December 28, 12:00 AM AST to December 29, 11:59 PM AST
Where: Wrn P.W. Snd & Kenai Mtns forecast zone
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

A moderate front moved into the area Thursday morning, followed by another late Thursday and early Friday. Yet a third front moved into the area, this one stronger than the prior two, Friday afternoon, passing through the area early Friday night. Upper level winds were mostly southeasterly until the third front passed, bringing significant precipitation to the Turnagain Pass area, reported mostly as snow. The warning actually spanned three separate events.3 ft of new snow was reported in Turnagain Pass during about a 48 hour period ending Friday.1 ½ of new snow was reported around Grandview, a site along the Alaska Railroad where an avalanche took out a good part of a freight train in the mid 1990s.

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 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5160054.