262 first-hand accounts of flood events in Alaska, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Unusually cold weather kept ice coverage in place on rivers across Alaska in spring 2023 with breakup much later than normal. Ice started breaking up on the upper reached of the Kuskokwim River starting on May 4th when ice started showing movement at Nikolai.
Read the full account →Unusually cold weather kept ice coverage in place on rivers across Alaska in spring 2023 with breakup much later than normal. Ice started breaking up on the upper reached of the Kuskokwim River starting on May 4th when ice started showing movement at Nikolai.
Read the full account →Unusually cold weather kept ice coverage in place on rivers across Alaska in spring 2023 with breakup much later than normal. Ice started breaking up on the upper reached of the Kuskokwim River starting on May 4th when ice started showing movement at Nikolai.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of well-below-average spring temperatures combined with an above-average winter snowpack created a dynamic breakup of the Yukon River. This resulted in numerous ice jams and snowmelt flooding on the Yukon River.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of well-below-average spring temperatures combined with an above-average winter snowpack created a dynamic breakup of the Yukon River. This resulted in numerous ice jams and snowmelt flooding on the Yukon River.
Read the full account →A storm force weather front along with a strong Atmospheric River (AR) associated with this system moved into the central Gulf of Alaska through the morning hours of September 20th.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of well-below-average spring temperatures combined with an above-average winter snowpack created a dynamic breakup of the Yukon River. This resulted in numerous ice jams and snowmelt flooding on the Yukon River.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of well-below-average spring temperatures combined with an above-average winter snowpack created a dynamic breakup of the Yukon River. This resulted in numerous ice jams and snowmelt flooding on the Yukon River.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of well-below-average spring temperatures combined with an above-average winter snowpack created a dynamic breakup of the Yukon River. This resulted in numerous ice jams and snowmelt flooding on the Yukon River.
Read the full account →Heavy thundershowers in the Delta River headwaters, comibined with probable glacial burst, created minor flash floodinig along the Delta River and its tributaries.
Read the full account →On the night of the 27th a frontal system moved from the Gulf of Alaska northwest over the southern interior to near Fairbanks on the evening of the 28th, then moved slowly back to the southeast before dissipating on the 29th.
Read the full account →A significant run of water and ice produced moderate flooding in the village of Russian Mission. By 5:30 pm on the 18th, the airport was surrounded by water and the road to the airport was becoming impassable.
Read the full account →A weather front brought from 1 to 2 inches of rain to the headwaters of Birch Creek and Crooked Creek. The rain fell on a residual winter snowpack and resulted in significant runoff due to the combination of rapid snowmelt and the heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of well-below-average spring temperatures combined with an above-average winter snowpack created a dynamic breakup of the Mosquito Fork of the Fortymile River. This resulted in ice jams and flooding.
Read the full account →A north Pacific low moved into the Bering and tracked northeastward into the Kuskokwim Delta Coast. Southerly winds increased to gale force strength and combined with high tides and a lack of sea ice to cause coastal flooding that inundated many boardwalks and low lying areas in…
Read the full account →The annual spring river ice break up resulted in extensive flooding along the Kuskokwim river over the 11 days it took for the river to open up from its head waters in the Kuskokwim Valley to the mouth of the Kuskokwim River on the Bering Sea coast.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of well-below-average spring temperatures combined with an above-average winter snowpack created a dynamic breakup of the Buckland River. This resulted in numerous ice jams.
Read the full account →The annual spring river ice break up resulted in extensive flooding along the Kuskokwim river over the 11 days it took for the river to open up from its head waters in the Kuskokwim Valley to the mouth of the Kuskokwim River on the Bering Sea coast.
Read the full account →An intense hurricane force storm moved across the Aleutians into the eastern Bering Sea February 24th and 25th. This storm produced hurricane force wind as it moved through the region.
Read the full account →A frontal system tracking east across the Bering Sea at the tail end of October reached the Southwest Alaska as a new low developed along the boundary between November 1st and 2nd and strengthened up until moving ashore near the Kuskokwim Delta.
Read the full account →The remnants of Typhoon Merbok in the northern Pacific Ocean began approaching the Bering Sea on Thursday, September 15, 2022. This storm transitioned into an extra-tropical area of low pressure and strengthened as it traversed the Bering Sea from southwest to northeast.
Read the full account →Rain Monday night and Tuesday morning in the area caused substantial rises on rivers and streams around Cordova...including Eyak Lake and the Eyak River.
Read the full account →An unusually strong low pressure system moving north out of the central Pacific ocean brought high freezing levels and moderate amounts of rainfall to much of south central Alaska.
Read the full account →The set up was a broad longwave trough in place over much of the Bering Sea through southern Alaska. Embedded in this broad longwave trough was an upper level low meandering over the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
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