Flood, Middle Tanana Valley
- When
- May 4, 6:45 AM AST to May 6, 1:00 PM AST
- Where
- Middle Tanana Valley forecast zone
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flood in Alaska, May 4 to 6, 2002
Ice jams formed on the Chena River in the North Pole area - near the Nordale bridge and in the Steamboat Landing Subdivision, on the 3rd. On the morning of the 4th, water had backed up enough to flood several roads and a few homes in the Steamboat Landing and nearby areas.
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.
Ice jams formed on the Chena River in the North Pole area - near the Nordale bridge and in the Steamboat Landing Subdivision, on the 3rd. On the morning of the 4th, water had backed up enough to flood several roads and a few homes in the Steamboat Landing and nearby areas. The main impact was that a half-dozen roads were impassable effectively stranding the residents. By the afternoon of the 6th, the jams had weakened to the point of allowing water to pass through, dropping the water levels. The cool temperatures during all of April and then rapid warm-up during early May caused the severe ice jamming.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5296578.