Alaska, 2000Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 6, 2000
January 6, 2000 · NWS AJK · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
- 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.
Heavy Snow, Lynn Canal-Glacier Bay
- When
- January 6, 3:00 AM AST to 11:00 PM AST
- Where
- Lynn Canal-Glacier Bay forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
Several hours of widespread moderate snow with heavy snow warning for the Haines area and a snow advisory for the remainder of the zone. The snow changed to rain. Haines police department reported 18-20 inches over a two day period.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
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