Alaska, 2020

Heavy Snow in Alaska, November 3 to 4, 2020

November 3 to 4, 2020 · NWS AJK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A remnant small low over the northern gulf coast caused periodic heavy snow showers to to move over the Yakutat area during the 3rd and morning of the 4th.

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 AJK wrote it up.

A remnant small low over the northern gulf coast caused periodic heavy snow showers to to move over the Yakutat area during the 3rd and morning of the 4th.

What forecasters said that day

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 3, 6:25 AM AKST, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 6:25 AM AKST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Cape Decision to Salisbury Sound Coastal Area

When
November 3, 11:48 AM AKST to November 4, 10:00 AM AKST
Where
Cape Decision to Salisbury Sound Coastal Area forecast zone
Reported by
Trained Spotter

Spotter in Yakutat measured 9 inches of new snow, most of this fell during the morning hours and during periodic heavy snow showers.

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

More

Every storm in Alaska in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, November 2020

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: 926286.