1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Record heat was recorded at Bethel Saturday. Temperatures there reached 80 degrees F.20 miles upriver along the Kuskokwim River, near the village of Akiachak, a 6 year old boy was playing in the river with friends and disappeared. The body was found at about 10 pm Saturday.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Kuskokwim Delta | 2000-06-24 | 6 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, June 2000
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: 5144014.