Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 10 to 11, 2002

Name: Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 10 to 11, 2002
Start: 2002-01-10T12:00
End: 2002-01-11T04:00
Location: Alaska

January 10 to 11, 2002 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

At 4:45 pm Thursday, radio station KBBI called to request a resend on the forecast, passing on that 12-13 inches of snow had fallen on Diamond Ridge since after midnight. The station also passed on that the snow had been coming down "pretty good" there all day.

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 AFC wrote it up.

A front moving toward the Kenai Peninsula produced locally heavy snow at higher elevations around Homer.At 4:45 pm Thursday, radio station KBBI called to request a resend on the forecast, passing on that 12-13 inches of snow had fallen on Diamond Ridge since after midnight. The station also passed on that the snow had been coming down "pretty good" there all day. A call from the Anchorage Forecast Office revealed that the Homer police were apparently unaware of the heavy snow on the Ridge.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Kenai Peninsula

When: January 10, 12:00 PM AST to January 11, 4:00 AM AST
Where: Kenai Peninsula forecast zone
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA

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 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, January 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: 5277128.