Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 15 to 16, 2001

Name: Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 15 to 16, 2001
Start: 2001-01-15T12:00
End: 2001-01-16T04:00
Location: Alaska

January 15 to 16, 2001 · NWS AJK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound to Dixon Entrance

When: January 15, 12:00 PM AST to January 16, 4:00 AM AST
Where: Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound to Dixon Entrance forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

Locally heavy snow occurred in the northern end of Portland Canal where a shallow arctic boundary was maintained by cold drainage winds. Hyder received 8.5 inches in 24 hours.

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

Every storm in Alaska in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, January 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: 5228499.