Water from a stream flowing through the village backed up at a culvert which was still frozen closed from the winter termperatures. The water surrounded one home on the evening of the 23rd and the morning of the 24th before the culvert opened up some and allowed water to drain.
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Water from a stream flowing through the village backed up at a culvert which was still frozen closed from the winter termperatures. The water surrounded one home on the evening of the 23rd and the morning of the 24th before the culvert opened up some and allowed water to drain.
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 Apr 23, 1:06 PM AKST, 7 hours 54 minutes earlier.
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 206 PM AKDT WED APR 23 2014 .DISCUSSION... MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT THROUGH ABOUT 60 HOURS. UPPER LEVEL LOW SOMEWHERE NEAR BARROW WILL MOVE BACK SOUTHWESTWARD TO ABOUT THE BERING STRAIT BY EARLY THU MORNING AND THEN CONTINUE WESTWARD AND DISSIPATE BY SAT MORNING. THE LONG WAVE TROUGH PATTERN WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE STATE THROUGH SAT BEFORE RIDGING BEGINS TO POKE BACK IN FROM THE EAST. NUMEROUS SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND THEN UP ALONG THE ALCAN BORDER AND THEN THROUGH THE INTERIOR AND THEN ACROSS THE ARCTIC COAST AND FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND UP OVER THE WEST COAST AND CENTRAL INTERIOR. THE SHORT WAVES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SOME INSTABILITY OVER PARTS OF THE INTERIOR WHICH MAY SPAWN A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS HERE AND THERE. WINDS OVER THE WEST COAST WILL BEGIN TO DISSIPATE BY LATER THU. WINDS MAY CREEP UP IN THE EASTERN ARCTIC TONIGHT BUT SHOULD NOT REMAIN INTO THU. && .FIRE WEATHER... RH VALUES WILL BEGIN TO REBOUND SLIGHTLY ON THU AND FRI AS A COUPLE OF SHORT WAVES MOVE THROUGH EASTERN INTERIOR BRING SOME MOISTURE WITH THEM. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ210. && CF APR 14
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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