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Ice Storm in Frederick Sound-kupreanof-wrangell Islands To Ernest South, Alaska

Ice Storm February 12, 2001 · Frederick Sound-kupreanof-wrangell Islands To Ernest South, Alaska

What the National Weather Service wrote

Petersburg received 6 tenths of an inch of freezing rain.

The wider storm

As arctic air was being gradually eroded by a warm, maritime airmass, freezing rain developed in wind-sheltered valley locations in central Southeast Alaska. The freezing rain was light, and accumulations of two to six tenths of an inch were reported in 5 to 7 hours.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5230727. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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