Heavy Snow, Denali
- When
- April 27, 9:00 AM AST to April 28, 9:00 AM AST
- Where
- Denali forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 27 to 28, 2002
Heavy snow fell at the Denali Park Headquarters as a slow moving cold front became stationary across the region. Southwest flow brought moisture from the Bering Sea over this boundary resulting in a steady rate of snowfall.
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 AFG wrote it up.
Heavy snow fell at the Denali Park Headquarters as a slow moving cold front became stationary across the region. Southwest flow brought moisture from the Bering Sea over this boundary resulting in a steady rate of snowfall. A storm total of 10 inches was reported by the Park Headquarters Co-Op weather site.
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
- Tornado in Missouri, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Missouri, April 27, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 27 to 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- High Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, April 27 to 30, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, April 27 to 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, April 2002
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: 5288676.