Heavy Snow, Upr Tanana Vly Fortymile
- When
- March 17, 4:26 AM AST
- Where
- Upr Tanana Vly Fortymile forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow in Alaska, March 17, 2005
0 inches of snow. ASOS observations indicate snow event began at 520pm AST on the 16th.
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.
Eagle Co-operative Observer reported 6.0 inches of snow. ASOS observations indicate snow event began at 520pm AST on the 16th.
What forecasters said that day
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 Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 16, 2:30 PM AST, 13 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:30 PM AST, 13 hours 56 minutes before
NORTH ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
230 PM AST WED MAR 16 2005
.DISCUSSION...
SHORT AND MEDIUM RANGE MODEL RUNS ARE SHOWING BASICALLY
SIMILAR SOLUTIONS.
A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE ALOFT OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA WILL
BUILD NORTHWESTWARD WITH A 562-564 DAM HIGH CENTERED
OVER THE SOUTHWEST INTERIOR OF ALASKA BY FRIDAY MORNING.
THIS HIGH WILL BE PUSHED FARTHER TO THE WEST BY SATURDAY
MORNING AS A SHORT WAVE MOVES OVER THE TOP OF THE RIDGE
AND THEN SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN MAINLAND.
TEMPERATURES OVER MUCH OF THE MAINLAND WILL BE NOTICEABLY
COLDER BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A COLD NORTH TO NORTHEAST FLOW
BECOMES ESTABLISHED. AT THE SURFACE...A STRONG 1050+ MB
HIGH WILL BUILD OVER THE ARCTIC OCEAN OVER THE WEEKEND...
SETTING UP A PERIOD OF BLUSTERY NORTHEAST WINDS OVER MUCH
OF NORTHERN ALASKA.
.AFG WATCH/WARNING/ADVISORIES...
PUBLIC...ZONE 203...BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY
ZONE 206...BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY
MARINE...NONE
RF MAR 05Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Weather in Tennessee, March 17, 2005
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, March 17, 2005
- Winter Storm in Montana, March 17, 2005
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, March 17 to 19, 2005
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, March 17 to 18, 2005
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 17 to 19, 2005
- Winter Weather in South Dakota, March 17 to 18, 2005
- Winter Weather in Virginia, March 17, 2005
- Winter Storm in Montana, March 17, 2005
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 17, 2005
- Winter Storm in Iowa, March 17 to 19, 2005
- Winter Weather in Colorado, March 17 to 18, 2005
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, March 2005
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: 5442200.