General overrunning snow event occurred most of January 19th around Haines along the peninsula south of Haines to Mud Bay.
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.
General overrunning snow event occurred most of January 19th around Haines along the peninsula south of Haines to Mud Bay.
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 Juneau, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 18, 2:56 PM AKST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.
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</html>1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow began in the evening of the 18th and continued for about 24 hours. By 10 am 9.5 inches had been reported by a spotter in Mud Bay, and by the end of the event, 17 inches of snow had fallen. Lesser amounts fell in along the Haines Highway.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 2020
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 871654.