Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 21, 1998

Name: Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 21, 1998
Start: 1998-03-21T09:00
End: 1998-03-21T15:35
Location: Pennsylvania

March 21, 1998 · NWS CLE · 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: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Northern Erie

When: March 21, 9:00 AM EST to 3:35 PM EST
Where: Northern Erie forecast zone
Coordinates: 42.118, -80.098 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Rain changed to snow on the back side of a low pressure system and a band of heavy snow rotated into the Erie County PA lakeshore and then weakened. Snow accumulated four to eight inches along the lakeshore with the heaviest amounts east of the city of Erie. The city of Northeast reported eight inches of new snow with north winds of 35 miles per hour blowing the snow into drifts up to four feet deep.

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 Pennsylvania in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, March 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5637622.