Winter Storm in Maryland, December 13 to 14, 2000

Name: Winter Storm in Maryland, December 13 to 14, 2000
Start: 2000-12-13T22:00
End: 2000-12-14T04:00
Location: Maryland

December 13 to 14, 2000 · NWS PBZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 winter storm, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

Event by event

1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Storm, Garrett

When: December 13, 10:00 PM EST to December 14, 4:00 AM EST
Where: Garrett forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT

A mix of sleet, freezing rain and snow spread across western Maryland during the day on the 13th. By late afternoon on the 13th, the snow turned over to sleet in many areas. Finally, by the evening hours of the 13th the precipitation had turned over to freezing rain across all of Garrett County, with ice accumulations of one-quarter to one-half inch reported by the late evening hours on the 13th. Overnight, the freezing precipitation gradually turned over to rain. However, even by the early morning hours of the 14th a few pockets of freezing drizzle were still being reported as cold air remained trapped in some of the valleys.

What these are

Winter Storm: A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Maryland in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Maryland, December 2000

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: 5165809.