Heavy Snow, Susitna Valley
- When
- January 17, 6:00 PM AST to 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Susitna Valley forecast zone
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 17, 2002
Warm, moist air overrunning the arctic front produced locally heavy snows along the Parks Highway. Heavy snows likely occurred at other locations in the Susitna Valley.
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.
Warm, moist air overrunning the arctic front produced locally heavy snows along the Parks Highway. Heavy snows likely occurred at other locations in the Susitna Valley. Chulitna Lodge reported heavy snow during the evening. A woman traveling the Parks Highway from Anchorage to Fairbanks, reported 10" of new snow along the route in the northern Susitna Valley when she arrived in Fairbanks.
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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- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, January 17 to 18, 2002
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- Blizzard in Alaska, January 17, 2002
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 17, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, January 17, 2002
- Ice Storm in Alaska, January 17 to 18, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 17, 2002
- Winter Storm in Alaska, January 17 to 18, 2002
More
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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: 5277138.