Heavy Snow, Adams
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Adams forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.846, -83.472 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Ohio, March 9, 1999
Low pressure brought abundant moisture northward into an arctic air mass producing very heavy snow. The heaviest snow fell between midnight and 800 am with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches an hour at times.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 32 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
- 32
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 ILN wrote it up.
Low pressure brought abundant moisture northward into an arctic air mass producing very heavy snow. The heaviest snow fell between midnight and 800 am with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches an hour at times. The snow continued into the daylight hours but it was generally much lighter. Accumulations ranged from 5 to 10 inches with the highest amounts occurring on a line from Hamilton to Wilmington to Chillicothe.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
32 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Auglaize
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Auglaize forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.561, -84.222 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Brown
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Brown forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.934, -83.867 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Butler
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Butler forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.439, -84.576 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Champaign
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Champaign forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.138, -83.769 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Clark
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Clark forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.917, -83.784 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Clermont
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Clermont forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.047, -84.152 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Clinton
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Clinton forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.415, -83.808 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Darke
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Darke forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.133, -84.619 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Delaware
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Delaware forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.278, -83.005 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Fairfield
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Fairfield forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.752, -82.631 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Fayette
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Fayette forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.560, -83.456 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Franklin
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.970, -83.009 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Greene
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Greene forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.692, -83.890 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Hamilton
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hamilton forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.196, -84.543 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Hardin
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hardin forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.662, -83.659 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Highland
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Highland forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.185, -83.601 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Hocking
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hocking forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.497, -82.479 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Licking
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Licking forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.092, -82.483 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Logan
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Logan forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.388, -83.766 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Madison
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Madison forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.894, -83.400 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Mercer
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Mercer forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.540, -84.629 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Miami
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Miami forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.053, -84.229 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Montgomery
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.755, -84.291 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Pickaway
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Pickaway forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.642, -83.024 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Pike
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Pike forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.077, -83.067 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Preble
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Preble forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.742, -84.648 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Ross
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ross forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.338, -83.057 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Scioto
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Scioto forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.804, -82.993 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Shelby
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Shelby forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.332, -84.205 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Union
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Union forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.299, -83.372 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Warren
- When
- March 9, 12:00 AM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Warren forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.428, -84.167 (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
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 9, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, March 9, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 9, 1999
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Virginia, March 9, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 9, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 9, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, March 9, 1999
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Maryland, March 9, 1999
- Sleet in North Carolina, March 9, 1999
- Wildfire in Florida, March 9 to 10, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, March 9, 1999
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Alaska, March 9 to 12, 1999
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, March 1999
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: 5689584, 5689585, 5689586, 5689587, 5689588, 5689589, 5689590, 5689591, 5689592, 5689593, 5689594, 5689595, 5689596, 5689692, 5689693, 5689694, 5689695, 5689696, 5689697, 5689698, 5689699, 5689700, 5689701, 5689702, 5689703, 5689704, 5689705, 5689706, 5689707, 5689708, 5689709, 5689710.