Low pressure moving east across the Beaufort Sea pushed a weather front across the North Slope and Northeast Brooks Range. This resulted in significant upslope snowfall along the northeast Brooks Range.
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.
Low pressure moving east across the Beaufort Sea pushed a weather front across the North Slope and Northeast Brooks Range. This resulted in significant upslope snowfall along the northeast Brooks Range.
1 astronomical low tide. Local standard time, as filed.
Significant snow fell from along the north slopes of the Brooks Range from the Dalton Highway eastward. The University of Alaska Toolik Field Camp SNOTEL reported 13 inches of snow in less than 24 hours and the Alaska DOT reported very poor driving conditions along the Dalton Highway.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 926919.