Heavy Snow in Vermont, April 18 to 19, 1997

Name: Heavy Snow in Vermont, April 18 to 19, 1997
Start: 1997-04-18T05:00
End: 1997-04-19T08:00
Location: Vermont

April 18 to 19, 1997 · NWS ALY · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
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.

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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Bennington

When: April 18, 5:00 AM EST to April 19, 8:00 AM EST
Where: Bennington forecast zone
Property damage: $5,000
Coordinates: 43.036, -73.093 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

On April 18 and 19, a low pressure system deepened rapidly off the coast of Long Island. This late season winter storm dumped heavy snow across Bennington County in southern Vermont. The heavy wet snow downed several trees which resulted in isolated power outages. Some specific snowfall totals included: 8 inches at Pownal, 7 inches at Dorset and 8 inches at Sunderland.

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Vermont in 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history Warnings in Vermont, April 1997

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: 5592709.