Heavy Snow, Williams
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Williams forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.560, -84.588 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Ohio, December 13 to 14, 2000
Another in a series of strong upper level disturbances coming out of the southern plains combined with an intensifing upper jet over southern Canada led to another bout of heavy snow across part of Indiana and Northwest Ohio on the 13th. Although the surface low remained quite weak and the upper level system moved rather quickly...
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 8 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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- 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
- 8
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 IWX wrote it up.
...Synoptic and mesoscale conditions for December 13th...Another in a series of strong upper level disturbances coming out of the southern plains combined with an intensifing upper jet over southern Canada led to another bout of heavy snow across part of Indiana and Northwest Ohio on the 13th. Although the surface low remained quite weak and the upper level system moved rather quickly... moisture was able to quickly advect northward out of the lower Mississippi valley as the low level jet intensified in response to increasing upper level divergence associated with the strong upper level jet over southern Canada. Snow developed around noon and quickly became heavy by mid afternoon and continued into late evening before tapering off. Some notable storm total snowfall reports included 8 inches at Grissom AFB... 7.4 in Young America... 7 in Defiance, Huntington, Monroeville, Portland, Bluffton, and Montpelier, and 6 in Marion, Columbus Grove, Fort Wayne, Hartford City, Monticello, Van Wert, Wabash, Wauseon, and Columbia City.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
8 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Allen
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Allen forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.772, -84.106 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Defiance
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Defiance forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.324, -84.490 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Fulton
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Fulton forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.602, -84.130 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Henry
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Henry forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.334, -84.068 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Paulding
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Paulding forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.117, -84.580 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Putnam
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Putnam forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.022, -84.132 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Van Wert
- When
- December 13, 2:00 PM EST to December 14, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Van Wert forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.855, -84.586 (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
- Winter Storm in Illinois, December 13, 2000
- Ice Storm in Louisiana, December 13, 2000
- Winter Storm in Ohio, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Winter Storm in Arkansas, December 13, 2000
- Ice Storm in Texas, December 13, 2000
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Winter Storm in Tennessee, December 13, 2000
- Winter Storm in Arkansas, December 13, 2000
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Oklahoma, December 13, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Ice Storm in Kentucky, December 13, 2000
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, 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: 5162070, 5162071, 5162072, 5162073, 5162074, 5162075, 5162442, 5162443.