Heavy Snow, Cape Fairweather to Cape Suckling-Coastal Area
- When
- April 3, 10:24 AM AST to 9:25 PM AST
- Where
- Cape Fairweather to Cape Suckling-Coastal Area forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 3, 2001
Six inches of snow fell in Yakutat ahead of a warm front. The heaviest snow occurred over a 3-hour period when visibility was restricted to 1/4 of a mile.
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.
Six inches of snow fell in Yakutat ahead of a warm front. The heaviest snow occurred over a 3-hour period when visibility was restricted to 1/4 of a mile. After the front passed through, the snow changed to rain.
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
- Rip Current in Florida, April 3, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, April 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Alabama, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- High Wind in Georgia, April 3 to 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, April 2001
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: 5233895.