Heavy Snow, Outagamie
- When
- February 21, 7:00 AM CST to 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Outagamie forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 44.416, -88.465 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, February 21, 1997
Local heavy snow fell in parts of Outagamie and Brown counties. Six inch amounts were measured at Flintville (Brown county) and Hortonville (Outagamie county).
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 GRB wrote it up.
Local heavy snow fell in parts of Outagamie and Brown counties. Six inch amounts were measured at Flintville (Brown county) and Hortonville (Outagamie county). Numerous accidents were reported, including around 120 in Brown county alone. One of the Brown county accidents involved a fatality.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Brown
- When
- February 21, 7:00 AM CST to 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Brown forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 44.474, -87.993 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
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- Tornado in South Carolina, February 21, 1997
- Rip Current in Florida, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, February 21, 1997
- Tornado in North Carolina, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, February 21, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, February 21, 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5588308, 5588309.