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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 AFG wrote it up.
Heavy rains clogged the culverts just east of Central, pushing the culverts up through the road between mile 138 and 139.5.
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 Jul 8, 1:46 PM AKST, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 246 PM AKDT TUE JUL 8 2008 DISCUSSION... A BROAD RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL MAINTAIN ITS POSITION OVER THE INTERIOR AND CENTRAL/EASTERN ARCTIC ZONES THROUGH WED. THE RIDGE LINE IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT A LITTLE TO THE WEST THU AND FRI AS THE FRINGE CIRCULATION OF AN UPPER LOW MOVES INTO THE EXTREME NORTHEAST PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. AXIS OF BROAD SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH EXTENDS FROM CAPE LISBURNE TO UMIAT TO BARTER ISLAND. THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE AXIS AND IN THE BROOKS RANGE. FOR TONIGHT...THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR AND MOST ACTIVE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE FOLLOWING ZONES: 221-222-NORTHERN 224-EASTERN 215/216-INLAND AREAS 203-204-206 AND 218. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO OCCUR IN THE REMAINDER OF 215/216-212-217-206-225-226. FOR WED...THE SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT A LITTLE TO THE SOUTH...WITH THE TROUGH AXIS LYING EAST-WEST ACROSS THE NORTHERN INTERIOR. THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR AND MOST ACTIVE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER THE FOLLOWING ZONES: 221-222-223-NORTHERN 224-MOST OF 216/217-218-219-220-SOUTHEASTERN 205/206. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE REMAINDER OF THE INTERIOR AND THE ALASKA RANGE. FOR THU...SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH AXIS IS EXPECTED TO EXTEND FROM THE NOATAK AREA TO NORTH OF EAGLE. THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR IS EXPECTED TO BE ALONG AND NEAR THE TROUGH LINE. THE MOST ACTIVE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE FOLLOWING ZONES: 205-MOUNTAINS IN 206-EASTERN 217-218-219-220-221-222-223-224. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE REMAINDER OF THE INTERIOR AND ALASKA RANGE. A 990 MB LOW OVER THE GULF OF ANADYR WILL MOVE TO NEAR SAINT MATTHEW ISLAND BY 00Z THU...FILLING TO 996 MB. THE LOW IS THEN EXPECTED TO MOVE BACK NORTHWARD...TO 100 MILES WEST OF GAMBELL BY 00Z FRI FILLING TO 1008 MB. RAIN IN ZONE 213 TODAY WITH EASTWARD MOVING FRONT...CHANCE OF RAIN TONIGHT ZONES 207-209-WESTERN 210-211-214. COASTAL HAZARD POTENTIAL DAYS 3 AND 4...NONE FIRE WEATHER... MIN RH LIKELY REMAINING ABOVE 30% IN THE INTERIOR TODAY THROUGH WED WITH MOIST AIRMASS HOLDING IN PLACE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WET. HYDROLOGY... FLOOD WATCH FOR ZONES 224-226 WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM. WINDS ALOFT AND MOIST AIR WILL PERSIST OVER MUCH OF THE INTERIOR THROUGH WED...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN AGAIN BE EXPECTED. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH FOR AKZ224-AKZ226. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR PKZ200-PKZ210-PKZ220-PKZ225-PKZ230. && JUL 08
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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