Alaska

Storm History: Nome Census Area, Alaska

45 episodes, 86 events since 2023

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nome Census Area, Alaska: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
86
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$125,000
Episodes
45

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.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Blizzard6100
Coastal Flood1100
High Wind700
Winter Storm300$125,000
Heavy Snow300
Ice Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Nome Census AreaEvery warning in Nome Census Area since 1986Every county in Alaska

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.