Heavy Snow, Srn Seward Peninsula Coast
- When
- December 20, 1:53 PM AKST to December 21, 4:53 AM AKST
- Where
- Srn Seward Peninsula Coast forecast zone
- Reported by
- Official NWS Observations
Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 20 to 21, 2013
A 984 mb low pressure center moved north from Bristol Bay to the Yukon Delta while weakening to 992 mb on the 20th. The associated weather front moved north over Norton Sound on the afternoon and evening producing snow at Nome totaling 7 inches before ending during the early morning of the 21st.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 AFG wrote it up.
A 984 mb low pressure center moved north from Bristol Bay to the Yukon Delta while weakening to 992 mb on the 20th. The associated weather front moved north over Norton Sound on the afternoon and evening producing snow at Nome totaling 7 inches before ending during the early morning of the 21st.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current and High Surf in Guam, December 20, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Washington, December 20, 2013
- Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Texas, December 20 to 21, 2013
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, December 20 to 21, 2013
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Arkansas, December 20 to 28, 2013
- Flash Flood and Ice Storm in Vermont, December 20 to 22, 2013
- Flash Flood and Ice Storm in New York, December 20 to 22, 2013
- Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, December 20 to 21, 2013
- Ice Storm in Oklahoma, December 20 to 21, 2013
- Winter Storm in Missouri, December 20 to 22, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Montana, December 20 to 21, 2013
- Drought in Texas, December 20 to 31, 2013
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 2013
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: 491124.