Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 19 to 21, 2000

Name: Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 19 to 21, 2000
Start: 2000-01-19T22:00
End: 2000-01-21T08:00
Location: Pennsylvania

January 19 to 21, 2000 · NWS CTP · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 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: 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.

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Event by event

2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Cambria

When: January 19, 10:00 PM EST to January 21, 8:00 AM EST
Where: Cambria forecast zone
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.495, -78.714 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Low pressure tracked east across West Virginia, providing most of Pennsylvania with the first significant snowfall of the season. Heaviest snow fell across the higher elevations of the Laurel Highlands of Somerset and Cambria counties, with about 8 inches accumulating over a two-day period. Other parts of central Pennsylvania also had snowfall amounts that totaled between 4 and 6 inches over the two days.

Heavy Snow, Somerset

When: January 19, 10:00 PM EST to January 21, 8:00 AM EST
Where: Somerset forecast zone
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.972, -79.028 (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

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, January 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5128031, 5128032.