1 heavy snow, 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 Nov 14, 9:00 PM AST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION 900 PM AST THU NOV 14 2002 DISCUSSION...SHALLOW ARCTIC BOUNDARY EXTENDS ALONG THE COASTAL MOUNTAINS...OVER ANCHORAGE/PALMER..THEN SOUTH BETWEEN PAHO AND PAWD. RAIN IS GENERALLY OCCURRING SOUTH OF BOUNDARY WITH SNOW SHOWERS TO THE WEST AND NORTH. AREAS OF MIXED RAIN/SNOW/FREEZING RAIN ARE OCCURRING ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY. EXPECT COOLER AIR TO MOVE INTO SOUTHCENTRAL FRI WITH APPROACH/PASSAGE OF UPPER TROUGH. EXPECT MOST MIXED PRECIPITATION WILL SHIFT TO SNOW OR SNOW SHOWERS AT THAT TIME. MODELS ARE BECOMING MORE CONSISTENT OUT WEST. BERING SEA LOW COMPLEX MOVES TO NEAR THE PRIBILOFS SAT AFTERNOON WITH A PRESSURE IN THE MID 970S. MODELS ARE ALL PICKING A MAJOR LOW TO MOVE SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIANS/AK PEN OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS. CURRENT SAT IMAGERY SHOWERS BAROCLINIC LEAF PATTERN ON FRONTAL ZONE EXTENDING ALONG THE NPAC BETWEEN 160-170E. UPPER JET SUPPORT LOOKS GOOD FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. ALSO PROGED SPEED OF SYSTEM SEEMS REASONABLE IN LIGHT OF JET STRENGTH. EXPECT CENTER WILL MOVE JUST SOUTH OF THE CENTRAL AK PEN WITH A PRESSURE IN THE 960S SAT AFTERNOON. MORE TO COME WITH COORDINATION. .AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE. MARINE...GALES 5B,6B,8,12A,12A1,12B,13, AND 15. RMC NOV 02
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Spotter reports indicated 1 foot of new snow just outside the city of Homer Friday. Snowfall resulted from a weakening low near Middleton Island producing moisture across the arctic front which was located near Kachemak Bay during the event. Snowfall at the Homer airport was light, with only an inch or two of new snow reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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