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Flood warning says Hooper Bay water could rise up to 7.5 feet above high tide Friday
The National Weather Service's Fairbanks office upgraded its coastal flood watch for the Yukon Delta coast to a warning Wednesday afternoon, the zone's first coastal flood warning this year. The warning forecasts water 5 to 7.5 feet above the normal high tide line at Hooper Bay from 4 am Friday, Oct. 23, to 10 pm Sunday. The watch had called for 4 to 8 feet.
"In Hooper Bay, beach property, and the lowest buildings will be inundated," the warning reads. "The access roads to the airstrip and the larger parts of town will likely be inundated." The rest of the Yukon Delta coast could see 2 to 4.5 feet. The service is telling residents to protect flood-prone property.
The warning follows a coastal flood advisory earlier this month that forecast water 4 to 6 feet above normal high tide near Hooper Bay, Alaska News reported Oct. 8.
Water should peak with Friday's high tides, then fall slowly through the weekend. Forecasters call Hooper Bay the main concern: water may flow over the airport access road and cut off access Friday afternoon, and it may approach roads in Scammon Bay and Nunam Iqua. Elsewhere, they expect mostly significant erosion rather than flooding. "This first storm looks mostly like an inconvenience," the forecast discussion says.
A second storm is forecast for Sunday night into Monday. Its southwest wind could more easily push water toward communities from the Seward Peninsula south. Forecasters have not yet given water levels for that storm.
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About Hooper Bay
Hooper Bay (Naparyaarmiut) is a Yup'ik village on the Bering Sea coast in the Kusilvak Census Area of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Its own dialect of Yup'ik is spoken there.
Bering Sea storms bring coastal flooding to Hooper Bay, with water that can rise several feet above high tide onto roads, beach property and low buildings and can cut off access to the airstrip. The Native Village of Paimiut works to teach the Hooper Bay dialect while elders who speak it as a first language remain.
The Hooper Bay Airport is the village's link to the rest of Alaska, and the state has weighed leasing space there to the FAA for navigation and weather equipment. Coastal flood watches often cover Hooper Bay together with other villages from Kipnuk north.