An intensifying low pressure system of the Florida panhandle moved slowly up the Atlantic Coast to the North Carolina Coast. This storm system spread a mix of heavy snow and sleet into western Maryland.
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.
The episode as NWS PBZ wrote it up.
An intensifying low pressure system of the Florida panhandle moved slowly up the Atlantic Coast to the North Carolina Coast. This storm system spread a mix of heavy snow and sleet into western Maryland.
1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight to fourteen inches of snow was reported across the county. The highest amount reported was in the extreme northeast part of the county; 20 inches fell at Finzel. The snow was mixed with sleet at times.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maryland in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, February 1998
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: 5639371.