City and Borough of Wrangell storm history

Report from a local Wrangell radio station of a roof torn off a building in the 5am AKDT hour on the 17th. A later post with photos by the owner showed an external snow roof rolled up with all material stripped away. Peak winds measured at the Wrangell Airport ASOS during the sto…

Reports on social media were received of new snowfall in Wrangell of 8+ inches of new snowfall. One report indicated that as of 8pm on the 28th that 12 inches of snow had fallen, with eight inches of that to have fallen since noon. Another trained spotter south of town measured 1…

A trained spotter south of Wrangell measured 4 inches of snow by 8am on the 27th with 1 mile visibility. By 7pm their total was up to 6.5 inches. Intermittent moderate snowfall continued through the night with another 2 inches falling, but the total compressing down to 7.25 inche…

Light snow fell during the MLK long weekend across Wrangell with heaviest rates falling on the 15th between 10am and 10pm. A trained spotter measured 14 inches storm total by late evening and others on social media confirmed that amount the next day.

Report of a downed tree at approximately 130pm, in the power line at 5.5 mile Zimovia Highway and another tree town at 6.5 mile. Trained spotter also reported the outage. Winds on nearby Zarembo Island saw a peak gust of 68 mph at 255pm. A second power outage was reported at 320p…

Snow began late on February 28th and became heavy through the following morning with periodic gusts of around 30mph. A change to rain happened in the late morning. A trained spotter south of Wrangell measured 6 inches of dense snow.

Trained spotter near Wrangell measured a storm total of 8 inches. While light, dry, snow fell all day on the 24th, majority of the accumulation fell in the late evening with 5 inches measured at 10pm. Lower accumulations were measured near the airport.