A cold front pushed across the interior of Alaska on the 13th. This produced Thunderstorms along the Alaska Range.
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A cold front pushed across the interior of Alaska on the 13th. This produced Thunderstorms along the Alaska Range. A person floating down the Delta River 5 miles north of Eureka Creek photographed a funnel cloud around 1015 AM.
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 Jul 13, 4:00 AM AKST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA 500 AM AKDT SUN JUL 13 2008 .ANALYSIS AND UPPER LEVELS... UPPER LEVEL LOW STILL REMAINS OVER EASTERN SIBERIA THIS MORNING BUT WILL SOON BEGIN MOVING DOWN INTO THE BERING SEA. MEANWHILE A STACKED SURFACE LOW IS IN THE SAME LOCATION. AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW SHIFTS SOUTHWESTWARD THE SURFACE LOW WILL SHIFT AS WELL...THIS LOW WILL BECOME THE PARENT LOW MOVING SEVERAL TROUGHS THROUGH THE BERING SEA. A BROAD UPPER LEVEL RIDGE HAS FORMED OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE...THE ZONAL NATURE OF THE FLOW OVER THE RIDGE WILL ALLOW SEVERAL TROUGHS TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION WITHOUT STALLING. .MODEL DISCUSSION... MODELS CONTINUE TO HANDLE THE LOW IN THE BERING POORLY TODAY. GFS RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY HAS BEEN VERY LOW LENDING LITTLE CONFIDENCE TO THE SOLUTION. HPC GUIDANCE HAS BEEN TO USE A BLEND OF THE ENSEMBLE MEANS AND THE OPERATIONAL RUNS...NOT MUCH CHANGE WAS MADE TO THE FORECAST TODAY IN ORDER TO GO WITH HPC GUIDANCE. AT THE VERY END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD THE 13/00Z ECMWF SEEMED MOST REPRESENTATIVE OF THE HPC GUIDANCE. .SHORT TERM FORECAST... IN THE EAST...A FRONT MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE EAST TODAY WILL BRING RAIN TO THE SOUTHCENTRAL REGION. AS IT MOVES INTO THE APEX OF THE RIDGE IT WILL WEAKEN SO THIS IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE AN EXTENDED PRECIPITATION EVENT. THE EAST WILL GET A BRIEF RESPITE ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY BEFORE THE FLOW SWITCHES TO SOUTHWESTERLY AND THE PROLONGED RAINS BEGIN TO MOVE IN. OUT WEST...OKMOK VOLCANO CONTINUES TO ERUPT THIS MORNING AND THE ASH CLOUD EXTENDS OVER UNALASKA AND UNMAK ISLANDS AND INTO THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. ONSHORE THE FRONT HAS MOSTLY MOVED THROUGH THE WESTERN ZONES WITH SOME RAIN LINGERING IN THE KUSKOKWIM VALLEY AND ALONG THE ALASKA RANGE...WEATHER IN THESE REGIONS WILL IMPROVE TODAY AS THE FRONT PROGRESSES EASTWARD AND A SHORTWAVE RIDGE MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. AS THE SURFACE LOW NEAR THE KAMCHATKA PENINSULA MOVES INTO THE BERING HOWEVER IT WILL BRING ANOTHER FRONT THROUGH THE ALEUTIANS AND ONTO THE WEST COAST BY TUESDAY. .LONG TERM FORECAST... WEST TO SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE LONG TERM BRINGING COOL AND WET CONDITIONS TO THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. .AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE MARINE...ASHFALL ADVISORY 170 AND 171 FIRE WEATHER...NONE LEWF JUL 08
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
David Payer reported this funnel cloud and photographed it July 13th 2008.
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