A 972 mb low tracked into eastern Gulf on this date. The associated front generated high southeast winds along our southern outer coast.
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 episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
A 972 mb low tracked into eastern Gulf on this date. The associated front generated high southeast winds along our southern outer coast. Peak wind gusts included Hydaburg at 75 mph and Ketchikan at 60 mph.
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 Juneau, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 6, 10:45 AM AST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
1045 AM AST SAT MAR 6 2004
.SYNOPSIS...
.SHORT RANGE...A WARM FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH A 965 MB LOW IN THE
SOUTHWEST GULF IS MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE THIS
MORNING. THIS FRONT WILL LIFT NORTH THROUGH THE PANHANDLE TODAY
INCREASING SOUTHEAST WINDS AND SPREADING PRECIPITATION NORTH.
PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN AS SNOW IN MOST LOCATIONS AND THEN TURN
TO RAIN AS THE FRONT GETS CLOSER. THE LOW WILL MOV INTO THE
CENTRAL GULF THIS EVENING AND TO THE NORTHEAST GULF COAST LATE
TONIGHT OR EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. AFTER THE LOW JUMPS OVER THE
MOUNTAINS INTO THE YUKON TERRITORY SUNDAY WINDS WILL SHIFT
SOUTHERLY IN THE INNER CHANNELS AND SOUTHWESTERLY IN THE OUTSIDE
WATERS.
.LONG RANGE...PATN CONTS TO BE ACTV W/ SVRL LOWS OVR THIS AREA
THRU THE WK. NXT LOW WL BE A DVLPG LOW THAT WL MOV NEWD AND
CROSS THE NRN PHNL MON MRNG. THIS SYS WL PROB DLVPG INTO THE
MID 980MBS AS IT MOVS INLD.
A SCND STRM WL MOV OVR THE WRN BERING SEA ON MON. A STG UPR WSW
JTSTRM ACRS THE N PAC S OF THE ALEUTAIN CHAIN WILL PUSH THE TRPL
PT ASSOCD W/ THIS LOW EWD RPDLY ALNG THE AK PEN. THE MDLS HINT
AT A TRPL PT LOW DLVPG OVR THE NWRN GLF AK THRU TUE MRNG.
THE UPR JTSTRM WL CRV SWLY AS IT MOVS OVR THE GLF AK AND PUSH A
BND OF VERY STG SWLY WNDS...IN ASSOCD W/ THE FNTL SYS...OVER THE
ERN GLF AK AND SE AK TUE. IN ADDITION...DUE TO THE SWLY FLOW AT
ALL LVLS XPCT SGFNT WRMG OVR ALL SE AK AND PROB THE ERN GLF CST
TUE AND TUE NGT.
A WV WL DVLP ON THE FNTL SYS FAR S NR 45N AND MOV NEWD OVR THE
NERN GLF AK THRU EARLY THU MRNG. ANOTHER LOW WL DVLP OVR THE N
PAC AND DRFT TO NR 55/140 THRU NXT SAT. THERE IS SOME SGSTN OF
A FNTL SYS MOVG NWD OVR PART OF SE AK...BUT THIS LOW PSN IS GD
FOR LTL/NO CLDS/WX OVR NRN SE AK AND ERN GLF CST.
.AJK...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
PUBLIC...WIND ADVISORY TODAY ZONES 18 22 23 27 28
HIGH WIND WATCH TONIGHT 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29
MARINE...STORM INSIDE WATERS...PKZ036
STORM OUTSIDE WATERS...PKZ041..052
GALES INSIDE WATERS...PKZ033..034..035
GALES OUTSIDE WATERS...PKZ042..043..0512 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 2004
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: 5390154, 5390155.