Heavy Snow, Harford
- When
- April 1, 12:00 AM EST to 3:00 AM EST
- Where
- Harford forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Maryland, April 1, 1997
The same nor'easter that produced gusty and sometimes damaging wind gusts also included a swath of wrap-around snow which moved through northeastern Maryland during the evening of the 31st and early morning of April 1st. Throughout the remainder of the Baltimore metropolitan region, accumulations ranged from 1 inch in the southwest suburbs to 5 inches in the northeast suburbs, again mainly on…
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LWX wrote it up.
The same nor'easter that produced gusty and sometimes damaging wind gusts also included a swath of wrap-around snow which moved through northeastern Maryland during the evening of the 31st and early morning of April 1st. Harford Co received between 4 and 8 inches of heavy wet snow, with up to10 inches in some spots, most of it accumulating on grassy surfaces but with some roads reported hazardous across the northern section of the county.Throughout the remainder of the Baltimore metropolitan region, accumulations ranged from 1 inch in the southwest suburbs to 5 inches in the northeast suburbs, again mainly on grassy surfaces. Accumulations ranged from 1/2 to 1 inch in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow and Strong Wind in Massachusetts, April 1, 1997
- High Wind in North Carolina, April 1, 1997
- Drought in Texas, April 1 to 30, 1997
- Heavy Snow and Strong Wind in Rhode Island, April 1, 1997
- Heavy Snow and Strong Wind in Connecticut, April 1, 1997
- Flooding in Louisiana, April 1 to 20, 1997
- Flooding in Iowa, April 1 to 10, 1997
- Winter Storm and Hail in Kansas, April 1 to 29, 1997
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in New Jersey, April 1, 1997
- Cold in West Virginia, April 1 to 30, 1997
- Cold in North Carolina, April 1 to 18, 1997
- Flooding in South Dakota, April 1 to 30, 1997
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5604165.