As arctic air was being gradually eroded by a warm, maritime airmass, freezing rain developed in wind-sheltered valley locations in central Southeast Alaska. The freezing rain was light, and accumulations of two to six tenths of an inch were reported in 5 to 7 hours.
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.
The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
As arctic air was being gradually eroded by a warm, maritime airmass, freezing rain developed in wind-sheltered valley locations in central Southeast Alaska. The freezing rain was light, and accumulations of two to six tenths of an inch were reported in 5 to 7 hours.
2 ice storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Petersburg received 6 tenths of an inch of freezing rain.
Two to five tenths of an inch of freezing rain occurred in the Juneau area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, February 2001
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