One of the strongest storms in at least a decade struck Alaska Saturday with hurricane force winds, high seas and rain that caused coastal flooding.
The extreme weather prompted Alaska Airlines to cancel its Saturday flights to Nome and Kotzebue as well as a morning flight to Bethel, it said in a statement.said eight flights to or from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport had been canceled Saturday, and 35 had been delayed.Peggy Fagerstrom / AP
“It derives its energy from the warm sea surface,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Alan Shriver, who spoke from Anchorage. “This is an exceptionally rare event.” “Impacts may exceed the 2011 Bering Sea Superstorm, and some locations may experience their worst coastal flooding in nearly 50 years,” it said in aAt video briefing on the storm Saturday, National Weather Service meteorologist Ed Plumb said the front surpassed those expectations, at least when it came to storm surge, which measured 6 to 8 feet above median high tide Saturday at Point Hope in the Chukchi Sea and at 10 to 12 feet along the Bering Sea coastline.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Ian Gray said Saturday that seas along the state's west coast were 25 to 30 feet, with winds of 30 mph. Small boats were advised to stay at port, and the agency had at least two cutters in the Bering Sea and two helicopters staged on Kodiak.The state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management called for a heightened state of awareness because a"strong storm" was en route.
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