A moderate strength front stalled just off the coast on the evening of 10/28. Moist air was forced up Lynn Canal which caused heavy snow overnight in White Pass.
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 AJK wrote it up.
A moderate strength front stalled just off the coast on the evening of 10/28. Moist air was forced up Lynn Canal which caused heavy snow overnight in White Pass. 6 to 8 inches of new snow fell there in 12 hours on that night into the early morning of 10/29.
1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Along the Klondike Highway up to White Pass, 6 to 8 inches of new snow fell between the hours of 2100 AKST 10/28 and 0700 10/29. Alaska DOT also reported winds to 30 MPH with very poor visibility.
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