A strong front moved across the region causing high winds and some damage in Yakutat and Juneau shortly before frontal passage. It also spread moisture over colder air over the northern portion of Lynn Canal with significant snowfall.
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 strong front moved across the region causing high winds and some damage in Yakutat and Juneau shortly before frontal passage. It also spread moisture over colder air over the northern portion of Lynn Canal with significant snowfall.
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 Nov 27, 3:08 PM AKST, 15 hours 22 minutes earlier.
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</html>2 heavy snow, 2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trained spotter in Dyea reported 9 inches of snow fell between 630 AM and 230 PM on the 28th. Co-Op observer in Skagway measured 10 inches of snow the following morning from the same event.
Yakutat airport measured a peak gust of 64 mph at 1049 AM. Following this, a trained spotter reported multiple trees and branches down. Law enforcement reported damage to a satellite dish and a tent blown over. An additional report of approximately 1 square mile of trees toppled or snapped off near Cannon Beach.
The Marine Exchange office measured a peak gust of 62 mph at 204 pm. Multiple trees were reported down around Juneau and Douglas causing power outages.
Co-Op in Hyder measured 27.8 inches of snow in less the 24 hours the morning of the 29th and was still snowing moderately. The following day they measured 6.2 inches had fallen, for a 2 day total of 34 inches.
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, November 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 926314, 926309, 926310, 926315.