1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 11:00 AM AST, 2 hours earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION 1200 PM ADT TUE JUN 25 2002 ANALYSIS...CONVECTIVE TROUGH IN ROUGHLY SAME LOCATION AS MONDAY. EXPECT DIURNAL TSTMS AGAIN AROUND KUSKOKWIM VALLEY WITH THIS FEATURE. OLD LOW EAST OF 46001 IN EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL GULF OF ALASKA NOW LOOPING NORTHWEST. GALES AROUND EAST AND SOUTHEAST QUADRANT OF LOW. ORIGINAL FRONT NOW WEAKENING IN ARC FROM KODIAK ISLAND INTO NORTHEAST SUSITNA VALLEY THEN EAST THROUGH COPPER RIVER BASIN. RAIN STILL IN EVIDENCE VICINITY FRONT...HOWEVER LESS EXTENSIVE THAN EARLIER. FRONTAL SYSTEM SOUTH OF ALEUTIANS REMAINING IN NORTH PACIFIC. PARENT LOW ABOUT 360 NM SOUTHWEST OF SHEMYA AT THE MOMENT...WILL ELONGATE EAST. OTHER WEAK CIRCULATION ALOFT EAST NORTHEAST OF ATTU MOVING VERY LITTLE...WITH ENHANCED CLOUDS/LKLY RAIN/NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHEAST QUADRANTS. FORECASTS... EXPECT GULF OF ALASKA LOW ROTATE NORTHWEST TOWARD CAPE DOUGLAS BY EARLY THU..THEN DISSIPATE THERE AND REFORM EASTERN BRISTOL BAY THEN GRADUALLY WEAKEN/DISSIPATE THERE ALSO. UPPER LOW IN VICINITY SEWARD PENINSULA AT THE MOMENT EXPECTED TO TURN SOUTHWEST MOVE INTO PRIBILOFS THU MORNING WITH WEAK LOW AROUND 989 MB...EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AT SURFACE TO SOUTHWEST OF CENTER WED. LOWS AND FRONT SOUTH OF ALEUTIANS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM SOUTH OF GULF OF ALASKA THU...THEN ENTIRE FEATURE MIGRATES NORTH UP PANHANDLE INTO NORTHEAST GULF OVER WEEKEND. .AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE. MARINE...GALE 2B. FIRE WEATHER...NONE. D JUN 02
AKZ161-262056- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, ANCHORAGE AK 1 PM ADT TUE JUN 25 2002 HEAVY SHOWERS...POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS...ARE BEING REPORTED EAST OF NUSHAGAK BAY. THE KING SALMON WEATHER OFFICE RECEIVED A REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD SIX MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUE MOUNTAIN...WHICH IS EAST-NORTHEAST OF PILOT POINT. STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...AND LIGHTNING WITH THESE SHOWERS. INTENSE SHOWERS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS OR WEAK TORNADOES. THESE INTENSE SHOWERS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ASB.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel clouds were reported by a Fish and Wildlife pilot 6 miles northwest of Blue Mountain. Additionally, waterspout reports were received by the King Salmon Weather Service Office by mariners in Bristol Bay. National Weather Service radar at King Salmon confirmed an area of strong storms in the area where the funnel clouds were reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, June 2002
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: 5296680.