Heavy Snow, Lower Koyukuk Middle Ykn Vlys
- When
- January 14, 12:15 PM AST to January 15, 12:15 AM AST
- Where
- Lower Koyukuk Middle Ykn Vlys forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 14 to 15, 2002
Heavy snow developed over the lower Koyukuk and middle Yukon Valleys along a slow moving occluded front. Upslope terrain effects also enhanced snowfall on the eastern side of the Nulato Hills as the front approached from the east.
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 developed over the lower Koyukuk and middle Yukon Valleys along a slow moving occluded front. Upslope terrain effects also enhanced snowfall on the eastern side of the Nulato Hills as the front approached from the east. The Cooperative weather observer in Kaltag reported 6 inches of new snow over a 12 hour period.
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
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- High Wind in Alaska, January 14, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, January 14, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, January 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in Alaska, January 14 to 15, 2002
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5279704.