Heavy Snow, Cape Fairweather to Cape Suckling Coastal Area
- When
- January 28, 2:00 PM AST to 4:00 PM AST
- Where
- Cape Fairweather to Cape Suckling Coastal Area forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 28, 2006
Heavy snow occurred in Yakutat. A total of 11 inches was measured at the Weather Service Office at the Yakutat Airport.
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 AJK wrote it up.
Heavy snow occurred in Yakutat. A total of 11 inches was measured at the Weather Service Office at the Yakutat Airport.
Event 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
- Heavy Rain in Washington, January 28 to 30, 2006
- Tornado in Kansas, January 28, 2006
- High Surf in Hawaii, January 28, 2006
- Winter Weather in Colorado, January 28 to 29, 2006
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, January 28, 2006
- Heavy Snow in North Dakota, January 28 to 29, 2006
- High Wind in Oregon, January 28, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Utah, January 28 to 29, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 28, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 28, 2006
- Winter Storm in Oregon, January 28, 2006
- High Wind in California, January 28, 2006
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 2006
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5487092.