Name: Blizzard and Winter Storm in Alaska, November 8 to 11, 2000
Start: 2000-11-08T19:45
End: 2000-11-11T15:00
Location: Alaska

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 7

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.

Moderate southeast flow ahead of a strengthening Low in the central Bering Sea brought a variety of Winter Weather to Northern Alaska on the 9th through 11th, along with strong south winds across the western Alaska Range. In addition, colld air moved west over the North Slope, causing an increasing pressure gradient to the already present easterly winds, resulting in blizzard conditions across the Arctic Slope Coastal on the 10th.High Wind occurred at : Tanana Valley - Healy: 35 mph sustained, gust 63 mph.Freezing Rain occurred at:Zone 3: KotzebueZone 4: BettlesZone 5: TananaZone 7: West Chena Ridge Co-operative Observer reported glaze.Zone 8: Nulato and Galena Cooperative Observers reported freezing rain, Kaltag ASOS reported freezing rain.Heavy Snow occurred at:Zone 8: Nulato Co-operative observer reported 9 inches of snow , ending at 9am on the 10th.Zone 3: Buckland ASOS reported 0.50 water equivalent of melted snow, which would likely be at least 6 inches of snow ending at 9am on the 10th.Blizzard condition occurred at: Zone 1: Barrow, Wainwright, Kuparuk, Deadhorse, Nuiqsut.

Event by event

5 winter storm, 1 high wind, 1 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Tanana Valley

When: November 8, 7:45 PM AST to November 9, 10:00 PM AST
Where: Tanana Valley forecast zone
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Winter Storm, Lower Yukon Valley

When: November 9, 1:37 AM AST to 10:00 AM AST
Where: Lower Yukon Valley forecast zone
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY

Winter Storm, Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula

When: November 9, 3:00 PM AST to 3:44 PM AST
Where: Lower Kobuk Valley-Northern Seward Peninsula forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Winter Storm, Tanana Valley

When: November 10, 5:00 AM AST to 10:00 AM AST
Where: Tanana Valley forecast zone
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY

Blizzard, Arctic Slope Coastal

When: November 10, 5:00 AM AST to November 11, 1:00 AM AST
Where: Arctic Slope Coastal forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Winter Storm, Upper Yukon Valley

When: November 10, 4:15 PM AST to 4:52 PM AST
Where: Upper Yukon Valley forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

Winter Storm, Koyukuk-Upper Kobuk Valleys

When: November 11, 1:00 PM AST to 3:00 PM AST
Where: Koyukuk-Upper Kobuk Valleys forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
Winter Storm: A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
Blizzard: Sustained winds or frequent gusts of 35 mph or more with falling or blowing snow that cuts visibility below a quarter mile for three hours or longer.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Alaska in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, November 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: 5166942, 5166947, 5166943, 5166946, 5166948, 5166945, 5166944.