Flood in Alaska, May 1 to 3, 2005

Name: Flood in Alaska, May 1 to 3, 2005
Start: 2005-05-01T20:00
End: 2005-05-03T13:00
Location: Alaska

May 1 to 3, 2005 · NWS AFG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

An Ice Jam on the Yukon River produced minor flooding of roads and a few structures in the village of Fort Yukon. Damage amount is a rough estimate.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $3,000
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.

An Ice Jam on the Yukon River produced minor flooding of roads and a few structures in the village of Fort Yukon. Damage amount is a rough estimate.

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 May 1, 2:00 PM AST, 6 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:00 PM AST, 6 hours before

NORTH ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
300 PM ADT SUN MAY 1 2005

.DISCUSSION...
LARGE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE CONTINUES TO LIE FROM FAR EAST RUSSIA
EASTWARD ACROSS THE ARCTIC OCEAN. THIS SYNOPTIC SITUATION WILL
PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY. THIS SITUATION CONTINUES TO BE HANDLED
SIMILARLY BY THE MODELS.

BIG CHANGES IN STORE BY MONDAY EVENING AS HIGH PRESSURE IS PUSHED
WEST OVER THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROF SWEEPS
SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE FROM THE
NORTHWEST. THE 850H TEMPERATURES REALLY COOL OFF...15 TO 20
DEGREES...IN THE NORTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE STATE...COULD DROP
TEMPERATURES IN THAT AREA WELL BELOW ZERO.

AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DIGS INTO THE STATE SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL
DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF THE INTERIOR. THIS SHOULD SPREAD SOME
MOISTURE AND COOLER TEMPERATURES INTO THE WESTERN INTERIOR AND
ALONG THE SOUTHERN SLOPES OF THE BROOKS RANGE TUESDAY MORNING...
GRADUALLY SPREADING EAST THROUGH THURSDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
BUILDS IN FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND WILL KEEP THE REALLY COLD AIR
CONFINED TO THE TO WESTERN PORTION OF THE STATE...GENERALLY NORTH
OF A LINE FROM NOME TO DEAD HORSE.

.HYDRO...RAPID SNOW MELT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY WITH MUCH
ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES.

.FIRE WEATHER...RED FLAG WARNING PANNING OUT WELL AS 20 TO 30 MPH
WINDS DEVELOPED ONCE AGAIN LATE THIS MORNING WITH RH DROPPING INTO
THE 15 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE.

.AFG WATCH/WARNING/ADVISORIES...
PUBLIC...DENSE FOG ADVISORY...201>206
         FLOOD WATCH...222 EXPIRES AT 5PM
         WIND ADVISORY...207...223

MARINE...BRISK WIND ADVISORY...205...210...295

FIRE WEATHER...RED FLAG WARNING...221>226

JHD MAY 05

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Yukon Flats Nearby Uplands

When: May 1, 8:00 PM AST to May 3, 1:00 PM AST
Where: Yukon Flats Nearby Uplands forecast zone
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC

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.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alaska in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, May 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: 5449334.