Heavy Snow, Charlevoix
- When
- December 26, 7:00 PM EST to December 27, 5:00 AM EST
- Where
- Charlevoix forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 26 to 27, 2000
A cold front moved across northern Michigan during the afternoon and evening hours on the 26th. West to northwest winds and cold air associated with this front helped to produce heavy lake effect snow across a portion of northwest Lower Michigan.
Where it happened
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- Floods
- Wind
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- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS APX wrote it up.
A cold front moved across northern Michigan during the afternoon and evening hours on the 26th. West to northwest winds and cold air associated with this front helped to produce heavy lake effect snow across a portion of northwest Lower Michigan. From mid afternoon on the 26th through the late evening, much of Charlevoix county and eastern Antrim county received 6 to 7 inches of snow.
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, Antrim
- When
- December 26, 7:00 PM EST to December 27, 5:00 AM EST
- Where
- Antrim forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.007, -85.176 (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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Oklahoma, December 26, 2000
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Texas, December 26, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, December 26, 2000
- Winter Storm in Virginia, December 26 to 27, 2000
- Wildfire in California, December 26, 2000
- Winter Weather in Missouri, December 26, 2000
- Heavy Snow in New York, December 26 to 27, 2000
- Strong Wind in New Hampshire, December 26, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 26 to 27, 2000
- Wildfire in California, December 26 to 27, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 26 to 27, 2000
- Flash Flood in Texas, December 26, 2000
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, 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: 5178628, 5178629.