1 blizzard, 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 Mar 13, 9:00 PM AST, 12 hours 50 minutes earlier.
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
900 PM AST THU MAR 13 2003
ANALYSIS...CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOW A CLUSTER OF MINOR LOWS
ROTATING AROUND THE MAJOR UPPER LOW OVER THE WESTERN GULF OF
ALASKA. CURRENT RADAR IMAGES FROM MIDDLETON ISLAND SHOW BANDS OF
SHOWERS ARE JUST SOUTH OF THE RADAR SITE AND ARE DRIFTING EAST.
FORECASTS...THE UPPER LOW OVER KODIAK ISLAND WILL MOVE SOUTH AND
EAST INTO THE SOUTHERN GULF OF ALASKA FRIDAY NIGHT THEN BECOME
NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGH SUNDAY.
THE CLUSTER OF SURFACE LOWS WILL CONTINUE TO ROTATE AROUND THE
CENTRAL UPPER LOW THROUGH THE WEEKEND. BANDS OF SNOW SHOWERS
EXTENDING OUT OF THESE LOWS WILL MOVE ACROSS PRINCE WILLIAM
SOUND, THE SOUTHERN KENAI PENINSULA AND KODIAK ISLAND FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY.
SOME CLOUDS WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTH COOK INLET AND SOUTHERN
SUSITNA VALLEY LATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
GUSTY WINDS IN THE SUSITNA VALLEY, MATANUSKA VALLEY AND DOWN THE
COOK INLET WILL PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AND WILL DIMINISH A
BIT SATURDAY.
STRONG WINDS OVER THE KUSKOKWIM VALLEY, BRISTOL BAY AND THE
ALASKA PENINSULA WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.
TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY WARM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ALASKA THROUGH
THE WEEKEND.
.AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE COPPER RIVER DELTA AND THE
MATANUSKA VALLEY. A BLIZZARD WARNING FOR COLD BAY.
MARINE...GALE 2B..2C..3AC..4..5A..12A1..15.
STORM 5B..6AB..8..12A.
FIRE WEATHER...RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE SUSITNA VALLEY..MATANUSKA
VALLEY..ANCHORAGE AND WESTERN KENAI PENINSULA.
NM MAR 031 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.
An intense low moved across Kodiak Island early Friday, reducing visibilities to 1/4 mile or less for more close to 11 hours. Additionally, 9 to 24 inches of new snow was reported. Wind gusts reached 48 mph from the northwest.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 2003
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: 5340802.