Alaska, 2007

Blizzard in Alaska, March 7 to 9, 2007

March 7 to 9, 2007 · NWS AFC · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

A strong northwest flow across the Bering Sea produced areas of snow along with strong Northwest wind. Blizzard conditions occurred from the Pribilof Islands south to the Alaska Peninsula and east to the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta coast.

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
3

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 AFC wrote it up.

A strong northwest flow across the Bering Sea produced areas of snow along with strong Northwest wind. Blizzard conditions occurred from the Pribilof Islands south to the Alaska Peninsula and east to the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta coast.

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 Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 7, 12:00 PM AKST, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 12:00 PM AKST, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA
500 PM AST WED MAR 7 2007

.DISCUSSION...
EAST DOMAIN.
CURRENT RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED THAT THE MAIN
BAROCLINIC ZONE LIES OVER WESTERN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, THE KENAI
PENINSULA AND THE MATANUSKA AND SUSITNA VALLEYS. EAST TO SOUTHEAST
FLOW OVER PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND IS MOVING A MOIST AIR MASS ACROSS A
WEATHER FRONT OVER THE EASTERN KENAI PENINSULA, MATANUSKA VALLEY AND
EASTERN SUSITNA VALLEY. THIS IS PRODUCING SNOW MAINLY WEST OF PRINCE
WILLIAM SOUND AND THE TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS. THE WEATHER FRONT WILL
DRIFT WEST INTO THE WESTERN KENAI PENINSULA AND CENTRAL SUSITNA
VALLEY TONIGHT AND WILL SHIFT THE AREA OF HEAVIEST SNOWFALL INTO
THESE AREAS. SNOW OVER THE ANCHORAGE BOWL AND MATANUSKA VALLEY WILL
DIMINISH THIS EVENING AND OVER THE REST OF WESTERN SOUTHCENTRAL
ALASKA THURSDAY.

THE SURFACE LOW JUST SOUTH OF THE KENAI PENINSULA WILL REMAIN NEARLY
STATIONARY AND DISSIPATE THURSDAY MORNING. THE SOUTHEAST FLOW OVER
THE NORTHERN GULF WILL WEAKEN THROUGH TONIGHT AND WILL BECOME
NORTHEAST THURSDAY EVENING. SNOW ALONG EASTERN KENAI PENINSULA WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT AND BECOME SNOW SHOWERS THURSDAY MORNING
THROUGH FRIDAY.

EAST TO NORTHEAST FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA THROUGH
FRIDAY AND SHOULD THE INTERIOR SECTION DRY.

WEST DOMAIN...
A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL PERSIST OVER THE WESTERN BERING SEA
THROUGH FRIDAY. A MODERATE PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER THE EASTERN BERING
SEA. GUSTY NORTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW OVER THE AREA THROUGH
FRIDAY. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL ALONG THE KUSKOKWIM DELTA COAST
WILL ALSO CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY.

.AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...BLIZZARD WARNINGS 125 AND 155.
MARINE...GALES 130 132 138 150 155 160 165 170 171 179 AND 180.
FIRE WEATHER...NONE.

NM MAR 07

Event by event

3 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.

Blizzard, Kuskokwim Delta

When
March 7, 12:56 PM AKST to March 8, 8:00 PM AKST
Where
Kuskokwim Delta forecast zone
Reported by
Official NWS Observations

Blizzard, Alaska Peninsula

When
March 8, 10:30 AM AKST to March 9, 12:30 PM AKST
Where
Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
Reported by
Official NWS Observations

Blizzard, Pribilof Islands

When
March 8, 11:19 AM AKST to March 9, 11:30 AM AKST
Where
Pribilof Islands forecast zone
Reported by
Official NWS Observations

What these are

Blizzard
Sustained winds or frequent gusts of 35 mph or more with falling or blowing snow that cuts visibility below a quarter mile for three hours or longer.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 10718, 10717, 10716.