Alaska tornado and storm history
Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, and severe storms recorded in Alaska between 1993 and 2026, from NOAA's Storm Events Database. Search an address to see the storms that came closest to it.
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Tornado reports
9,738
Storm events
100
Deaths, all storms
Every tornado track in Alaska
4 county track segments since 1950, coloured by rating. Zoom in and each path widens to its surveyed width. Tap one for the storm.
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Tornadoes by decade in Alaska
Not shown for Alaska. Only 3 tornadoes have been recorded here since 1950, which is too few to break into decades and read a trend from — the strong-tornado count for most decades would be zero or one. That thinness is itself a fact about Alaska. Compare with states that have a longer record.
Significant recent events in Alaska
Events with deaths, several injuries, $1M+ property damage, or tornadoes rated EF3 and up.
Storm surge from strong southwesterly onshore winds brought water levels to over 6 feet above the normal highest tide line along the Kuskokwim Delta coast during the morning high tide October 12. Water levels peaked in Kwigillingok at 6.3 ft above the normal highest tide line. Th…
This flooding was caused by storm surge moving upriver in the intertidal zone, not by runoff from heavy rainfall. Flooding extended from Napakiak northeast to Bethel. River levels in Bethel reached 9.5 ft at 3:00 PM AKDT as recorded by the local gauge datum before it experienced …
This flooding was not caused by heavy rain, but by storm surge moving up along the Kuskokwim River into the intertidal zone. The community of Tuntutuliak experienced major flooding due to the surge flowing up into the Kuskokwim River channel, with the worst flooding observed near…
An emergency manager in Kotzebue received a report at 09:46 local time of water just shy of the road the city uses to trigger mandatory evacuation orders (the road name was not specified). Later that day, the City of Kotzebue issued a evacuation order at 12:05 local time advising…
The level of Mendenhall Lake was already above the minor flood stage of 9 feet due to an atmospheric river and heavy rain in the days leading up to the event when the outburst flood started on the morning of Tuesday August 12th. By 1200 AKST the water levels had risen 1 foot to b…
The Palmer ASOS Station (PAAQ) reported freezing rain between 6:00 AM to 11:30 AM AKST on December 5th. An NWS employee of the Alaska Region Headquarters reported that Big Lake was receiving a bout of freezing rain at 7:30 AM AKST December 5th. A fatal traffic accident was report…
Shortly after 1500AKST on August 25th the larger of two landslides crossed the 3rd Avenue Bypass, a state road which is one of two routes for local traffic to get across town. There were 2 city employees that were working to clear culverts in their vehicle as the landslide occurr…
The level of Mendenhall Lake was slightly below normal levels of 5.0 feet before this event started in the early morning hours of Sunday August 4th. Twenty four hours into the flooding event, by noon on Monday, water levels had risen 5 feet and were over the moderate flood stage …
By the early evening as the front was moving eastward a landslide was reported near mile post 11 south of Wrangell along the Zimovia Highway, which blocked the road and cut power to residents on the other side of the slide. The landslide resulted in 6 people perishing and 3 homes…
The level of Mendenhall Lake was near normal levels of 5.5 feet before this event started, late Thursday August 3rd, and by Saturday morning water levels were over moderate flood stage of 10 feet. By this time areas near Skaters Cabin Rd, View Dr, and the Mendenhall Glacier Visit…
Temperatures fell into the 30s below zero in Fairbanks. for an extended period of time between the 18th and the 23rd. The high temperature on both the 20th and 21st failed to climb above -30 degrees (F) at the Fairbanks airport. The coldest official temperature at the Fairbanks a…
Strong winds developed on the evening of the 25th in the Fairbanks area. Winds caused a significant number of downed trees, which led to over 75 separate power outages resulting in over 23,000 customers without power. The power outage caused 911 services in Fairbanks to be disrup…
Over 3 inches of rain caused significant rises in creeks draining the Alaska Range from the evening of July 10th. This caused minor damage to several bridges, specifically the ones over Boulder Creek, Lower Suzy Q Creek, Upper Suzy Q Creek, Falls Creek, Gunnysack Creek, and Darli…
Of significance was the longevity and extremes recorded during the event. First, the strongest winds recorded were at the Palmer Airport with a peak wind gust of 88 mph at 5:36 PM January 2nd, and a gust to 91 mph at the Glenn-Parks Highway Interchange at about the same time. Thi…
An ice jam formed on the lower Anchor River on April 19, 2021. Originally the ice jam formed above the stream gage on the Old Sterling Highway and over the next few days the ice jam slowly moved downstream until it broke on April 24th. The area around the Old Sterling Highway flo…
Counties and zones
Each county’s full storm history, with its event count. Some entries are National Weather Service forecast zones rather than civil counties.
Admiralty Island (7)
Alaska Peninsula (189)
Aleutian Islands (170)
Anchorage (22)
Anchorage / Eagle River (lower Elev) (2)
Anchorage Hillside / Upper Eagle River (5)
Anchorage Muni To Bird Creek (263)
Annette Island (21)
Arctic Slope Coastal (76)
Astern Baranof Island and Southern Admiralty Island (1)
Baldwin Pen. & Selawik Valley (104)
Baldwin Peninsula (15)
Bering Strait Coast (32)
Bristol Bay (139)
Bristol Bay Borough (naknek and King Salmon) (1)
Bristol Bay Coastal (81)
C. Gulf Coast / Valdez (1)
Cape Decision To Cape Fairweather-coastal Area (35)
Cape Decision To Salisbury Sound Coastal Area (135)
Cape Fairweather To Cape Suckling Coastal Area (143)
Cape Fairweather To Cape Suckling-coastal Area (52)
Cape Fairweather To Lisianski Strait (15)
Central Aleutians (62)
Central Arctic Plains (5)
Central Beaufort Sea Coast (160)
Central Brooks Range (12)
Central Copper Valley (3)
Central Gulf Coast (149)
Central Interior (5)
Central Southeast Alaska (4)
Central Susitna Valley (2)
Chatanika River Valley (2)
Chukchi Sea Coast (166)
City and Borough of Juneau (40)
City and Borough of Sitka (11)
City and Borough of Wrangell (8)
City and Borough of Yakutat (20)
City of Hyder (8)
Ck Inlt Susitna(c) / Homer(c) (4)
Cook Inlet (123)
Cook Inlet and Copper River Basin (1)
Cook Inlet-susitna Valley (10)
Copper River Basin (95)
Copr River Basin / Glennallen (2)
Cp Decision To Cp Fairweather (2)
Cp Fairweather To Cp Suckling (5)
Craig Coastal (4)
Cstl. Southeast Alaska/sitka (1)
Dalton Highway Summits (4)
Delta Junction (6)
Deltana and Tanana (100)
Denali (111)
Dixon Ent. To Cape Decision (1)
Dixon Entrance To Cape Decision Coastal Area (157)
Dixon Entrance To Cape Decision-coastal Area (65)
E. Gulf Coast/yakutat (c) (2)
East Turnagain Arm (7)
Eastern Alaska Range North of Trims Camp (20)
Eastern Alaska Range South of Trims Camp (3)
Eastern Aleutians (176)
Eastern Baranof Island and Southern Admiralty Island (61)
Eastern Beaufort Sea Coast (156)
Eastern Chichagof Island (174)
Eastern Gulf Coast (1)
Eastern Norton Sound and Nulato Hills (9)
Eielson Air Force Base and Salcha (5)
Ern Norton Sound Nulato Hills (80)
Fairbanks Metro Area (5)
Fairbanks/tanana Valley (2)
Fortymile Country (2)
Frederick Sound-kupreanof-wrangell Islands To Ernest South (12)
Glacier Bay (145)
Goldstream Valley and Nenana Hills (4)
Haines Borough (4)
Haines Borough and Klukwan (49)
Haines Borough and Lynn Canal (277)
Hoonah Channels (2)
Howard Pass and the Delong Mountains (1)
Inland Bristol Bay (1)
Inland Kuskokwim Delta (6)
Inner Channels From Kupreanof Island To Etolin Island (100)
Interior Seward Peninsula (5)
Juneau Borough (31)
Juneau Borough / Admiralty Is (3)
Juneau Borough and Northern Admiralty Island (210)
Juneau Borough-admiralty Island-icy Strait Area (37)
Juneau Borough-eastern Chichagof-admiralty Island (26)
Juneau Borough-western Chichagof-admiralty Island (1)
Kenai Peninsula (115)
Ketchikan Channels (4)
Ketchikan Gateway Borough (25)
Kivalina and Red Dog Dock (14)
Kodiak Is. / Eastern Ak Pn (2)
Kodiak Island Northeast (3)
Kodiak Island(c) E. Ak Penin (2)
Kodiak Island-eastern Alaska Peninsula (73)
Kodiak Peninsula (90)
Kotzebue/l.kobuk Vly/n.seward (2)
Koyukuk / Upr Kobuk Vly (3)
Koyukuk-upper Kobuk Valleys (27)
Kuskokwim Delta (316)
Kuskokwim Delta Coast and Nunivak Island (13)
Kuskokwim Valley (30)
Kuskokwim Valley East (3)
Kuskokwim Valley West (1)
Lake Iliamna / Nanvarpak / Nila Vena (2)
Lime Village (1)
Lower Kobuk & Noatak Valleys (54)
Lower Kobuk Valley (4)
Lower Kobuk Valley-northern Seward Peninsula (68)
Lower Koyukuk Middle Ykn Vlys (64)
Lower Koyukuk Valley (3)
Lower Kuskokwim Valley (27)
Lower Matanuska Valley (3)
Lower Yukon River (10)
Lower Yukon Valley (55)
Lower Yukon and Innoko Valleys (3)
Lynn Canal / Glacier Bay (1)
Lynn Canal-glacier Bay (28)
Matanuska Valley (96)
Middle Tanana Valley (112)
Middle Yukon Valley (7)
Misty Fjords (101)
Municipality of Skagway (39)
N. Brooks Rng Colville Rvr W (19)
N. Brooks Rng E of Colville R (56)
N. Slopes of Brooks Range (2)
Ne. Slopes of the Ern Ak Rng (114)
Nenana (5)
Nern P.w. Snd (203)
Noatak Valley (5)
North Brooks Range East of Colville River (1)
North Slopes of Brooks Range (14)
North Slopes of the Western Alaska Range (2)
Northeast Prince William Sound (13)
Northeast Slopes of the Eastern Ak Range (2)
Northeastern Prince William Sound (1)
Northern Arctic Coast (61)
Northern Bristol Bay Coast (2)
Northern Copper Valley (1)
Northern Denali Borough (15)
Northern Lynn Canal (24)
Northern Seward Peninsula (5)
Northwest Arctic Coast (10)
Nrn & Intr. Seward Peninsula (70)
Pelican Coastal (1)
Petersburg Borough (10)
Portage (1)
Pribilof Islands (223)
Prince of Wales Island (29)
Romanzof Mountains (1)
S. Se. Ak Ernest Snd To Dixon (2)
S. Seward Pen / E. Norton Snd (1)
S. Slopes of Ern Brooks Range (39)
S.seward Pen E.norton Snd/una (1)
Salisbury Sound To Cape Fairweather Coastal Area (164)
Sern P.w. Snd (110)
Shishmaref (4)
Sitka Coastal (5)
South Slopes of the Central Brooks Range (6)
South Slopes of the Eastern Brooks Range (1)
South Slopes of the Western Brooks Range (3)
Southern Copper Valley (1)
Southern Denali Borough (2)
Southern Inner Channels (153)
Southern Kachemak Bay (1)
Southern Kenai Mountains / Seward (1)
Southern Seward Peninsula Coast (17)
Southern Seward Peninsula-eastern Norton Sound (37)
Southern Southeast Alaska (1)
Southern Southeast Alaska Ernest Sound To Dixon Entrance (62)
Southern Susitna Valley (1)
Southwest Kenai Peninsula (2)
Srn Seward Peninsula Coast (118)
St Lawrence Is. Bering Strait (279)
St. Lawrence Island (19)
St. Lawrence Island-bering Strait Coast (84)
St. Paul Island (9)
St.lwrnce Is. Brng Strt (c) (1)
Susitna Valley (189)
Taiya Inlet (28)
Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway (202)
Tanana Flats (3)
Tanana River Flats (1)
Tanana Valley (84)
Thompson Pass (2)
Tok Cutoff (1)
Two Rivers (3)
Upper Chena River Valley (5)
Upper Kobuk Valleys (8)
Upper Kobuk and Noatak Vlys (52)
Upper Kobuk-koyukuk Valley (1)
Upper Koyukuk Valley (51)
Upper Kuskokwim Valley (14)
Upper Tanana Valley (4)
Upper Yukon Valley (27)
Upr Tanana Vly Fortymile (74)
W. Ak Peninsula / Cold Bay (1)
West Prince William Sound and Whittier (1)
Western Ak Peninsula (2)
Western Alaska Peninsula (143)
Western Aleutians (130)
Western Arctic Coast (209)
Western Arctic Plains (2)
Western Capes (1)
Western Kupreanof Island and Kuiu Island (9)
Western Prince William Sound (10)
Western Prince William Sound & Kenai Mountains (1)
Western Susitna Valley (1)
Western Tanana Valley Western Yukon Valley (1)
White Mountains and High Terrain South of the Yukon River (13)
Wrangell Channels (4)
Wrn P.w. Snd & Kenai Mtns (229)
Wrn Tanana Vly Wrn Yukon Vly (56)
Yakutat Coastal (1)
Yukon Delta (190)
Yukon Delta Coast (28)
Yukon Flats (5)
Yukon Flats Nearby Uplands (54)
Yukon-kuskokwim Delta (9)
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