Heavy Snow, Blair
- When
- February 4, 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Blair forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.481, -78.349 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, February 4, 1998
2 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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, Cambria
- When
- February 4, 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Cambria forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.495, -78.714 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Deep low pressure system moved east across South Carolina with a strong easterly flow of moisture north across North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania into New York. Typical storm total precipitation across southern parts of Pennsylvania were in excess of an inch, with over 2 inches reported in Somerset and Bedford counties where the precipitation fell as snow. Heavy wet snow totaled up to 22 inches in Somerset County at Mount Davis, with 4 to 8 inch accumulations reported across the central mountains as far north as Altoona and 4 to 5 inches into Clearfield and State College. Some higher amounts included 16 inches at Buffalo Mills in Bedford County, 14 inches in Myersdale, Somerset County, and 11 inches at Laurel Summit in Cambria County. At lower elevations, amounts ranged from 4 to 8 inches, with 7 inches reported in Altoona and 6 inches in Johnstown. Across much of the Cumberland Valley from Greencastle northeast to Chambersburg and Carlisle, much of the precipitation fell as a mix of rain, sleet, and snow, but up to 5 inches of snow fell in the Shippensburg area.
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
- Coastal Flood in Virginia, February 4 to 6, 1998
- Coastal Flood and High Wind in New Jersey, February 4 to 9, 1998
- Coastal Flood and High Wind in Delaware, February 4 to 9, 1998
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Virginia, February 4 to 5, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Coastal Flood in Maryland, February 4 to 5, 1998
- Coastal Flood in Maryland, February 4 to 6, 1998
- Flooding in Georgia, February 4 to 8, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, February 4 to 5, 1998
- Storm Surge in Ohio, February 4 to 5, 1998
- Heavy Rain in Virginia, February 4 to 6, 1998
- High Wind in Puerto Rico, February 4, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, February 4 to 5, 1998
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, February 1998
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: 5628639, 5628640.