Avalanche in Alaska, November 11, 2001

Name: Avalanche in Alaska, November 11, 2001
Start: 2001-11-11T15:00
End: 2001-11-11T15:00
Location: Alaska

November 11, 2001 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 avalanche, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 1
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 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.

Avalanche, Matanuska Valley

When: November 11, 3:00 PM AST
Where: Matanuska Valley forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: NEWSPAPER

A small wind slab avalanche released under a 30 year old woman and her male friend. The slide carried the two about 100 yards down the slope. The man came to rest on top of the snow. The woman was buried, head-down, under three feet of snow. She was pulled out, not breathing and blue, about 25 minutes later and, at an earlier report, was in critical condition in an Anchorage hospital. The patient was pulled off of life support at 6:45 am AST Tuesday, and was pronounced dead at 2 pm AST Tuesday.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Avalanche, Matanuska Valley	2001-11-13	30	Female	Outside/Open Areas	Direct

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

Every storm in Alaska in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, November 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: 5269323.