A series of north Pacific storms produced heavy rain over Kodiak Island beginning April 20th. 16 inches fell April 20th and 21st.
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 AFC wrote it up.
A series of north Pacific storms produced heavy rain over Kodiak Island beginning April 20th. Total precipitation of 2.16 inches fell April 20th and 21st.
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 Apr 20, 11:00 PM AKST, 8 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA 500 AM ADT SAT APR 21 2007 .MODEL DISCUSSION...ALL MODELS INITIALIZED WELL AND REASONABLY CONSISTENT WITH PREVIOUS RUNS OUT THROUGH 120 HOURS. .ANALYSIS AND UPPER LEVELS...HIGH AMPLITUDE UPPER LEVEL PERSISTS OVER EASTERN ALASKA AND WESTERN CANADA. BROAD TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE PERSISTS OVER RUSSIAN FAR EAST BERING SEA AND ALASKA PENINSULA. OLD 988 MB SFC LOW SOUTH OF KODIAK ISLAND NEAR 53N 145W WILL DISSIPATE IN THE EASTERN GULF OF ALASKA BY SUN MORNING. LARGE STRONG 973 MB LOW SOUTH OF THE WESTERN ALEUTIANS NEAR 45N 175W WILL TRACK JUST SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN CHAIN AND MOVE TO NEAR 52N 157W SUN AFTERNOON WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN INTENSITY. AFTERWARDS THE LOW THEN BEGINS TO WEAKEN AND DRIFT NORTHEASTWARD. .SHORT TERM FORECAST... BRIEF RESPITE BETWEEN SYSTEMS TODAY FOR MOST OF SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA. BUT SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL REDEVELOP OVER THE AREA SUNDAY WITH THE APPROACH OF THE NEW SYSTEM OUT OF THE WEST. KODIAK ISLAND WILL SEE NO BREAK BUT REMAIN IN EASTERLY FLOW UNDER STEADY PRECIPITATION THROUGH THE WEEKEND. OFFSHORE FLOW ACROSS INTERIOR AND SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA WILL KEEP MOST OF THE KUSKOKWIM VALLEY AND DELTA DRY BUT MIXED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL LINGER OVER BRISTOL BAY AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA. NORTHEAST TO NORTHWEST FLOW WILL PERSIST OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN BERING SEA AND THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN ALEUTIANS...AS WILL THE ASSOCIATED SNOW SHOWERS. .LONG TERM FORECAST... NORTH PACIFIC STORMS WILL BEGIN TO TRACK FURTHER INTO SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA BEGINNING WEDNESDAY. PATTERN INCREASINGLY MOIST AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES. .AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE. MARINE...GALE 120 130 132 172 FIRE WEATHER...NONE. ASB APR 07
1 debris flow. Local standard time, as filed.
A landslide in downtown Kodiak tore part of the deck from a hillside home and caused other damage Saturday morning. |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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