Avalanche, Northern Lynn Canal
- When
- December 22, 12:00 AM AST to December 23, 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Northern Lynn Canal forecast zone
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Avalanche in Alaska, December 22 to 23, 2001
A release of snow from the mountians along the Haines Highway reached and covered the road to a between 19 and 20 mile on the 22nd. Department of highway crews had it cleaned up on the 23rd.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $4,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
A release of snow from the mountians along the Haines Highway reached and covered the road to a between 19 and 20 mile on the 22nd. Department of highway crews had it cleaned up on the 23rd.
Event by event
1 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Avalanche
- A mass of snow sliding down a mountainside that caused a death, an injury or damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Guam, December 22, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, December 22, 2001
- Tornado in Louisiana, December 22, 2001
- Blizzard in North Dakota, December 22 to 23, 2001
- Blizzard in Minnesota, December 22 to 23, 2001
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in California, December 22, 2001
- Blizzard in North Dakota, December 22, 2001
- High Wind in South Dakota, December 22, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, December 22, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, December 22, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, December 22, 2001
- Hail in Louisiana, December 22, 2001
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 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: 5273983.