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Winter Storm in Cape Decision To Salisbury Sound Coastal Area, Alaska

Winter Storm February 27, 2017 – February 28, 2017 · Cape Decision To Salisbury Sound Coastal Area, Alaska

What the National Weather Service wrote

Sitka got 8 inches of new snow by morning on 2/28 plus three more inches of Ice Pellets in the thunderstorms that afternoon. Impact on aircraft and snow removal.

The wider storm

A strong upper level disturbance moved over the Panhandle with a 1004 MBV Gale force Low just off Ocean Cape. This system rapidly deepened to 992 mb early on the morning of 2/28 as a strong front moved on to the coast dumping snow. The impact was snow removal but no damage was reported.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 678410. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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