Connecticut, 2001

Winter Storm in Connecticut, March 5 to 6, 2001

March 5 to 6, 2001 · NWS ALY · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

Where it happened

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  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
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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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 5, 9:48 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 9:48 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
948 AM EST MON MAR 5 2001

.DISC...WL ISSUE AN UPDATE ARND 1000 AM. OVRNGHT AMTS CLOSE TO
FORECAST AMTS END OF THE DAY N AND W OF CAP DSTRCT. WL UP AMTS THRU
THIS EVNG BY ABT 2 TO 4 INCHES. WL BASE MCH OF FORECAST ON H8
DEFORMATION ZONE WHICH SHIFTS FM WRN AND NRN PTN OF FA INTO ERN
CTSKLS...GTR CAP DSTRCT AND SRN VT 18Z AND THEN INTO TACONICS AND
BERKS TNGHT WHICH THEN BECOMES FAIRLY STATIONARY THRU MCH OF OVRNGHT
PD. WL EXTEND AREA OF MIXED PCPN A LITTLE FRTHR N INTO CTSKLS AND
BERKS AS WELL AS UP HDSN VLY TO CLOSE TO CAP DSTRCT. A MIXTURE OF
SNOW AND SLEET HAS BEEN REPORTED AS FAR NORTH AS CATSKILL THIS MRNG.
SEE LATEST PNS FOR SNOWFALL TOTALS THUS FAR.

.ALY...WINTER STORM WARNING THRU TUE NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-
       058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014-MAZ001-CTZ001

The radar

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Event by event

1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Storm, Litchfield

When
March 5, 1:00 PM EST to March 6, 3:00 PM EST
Where
Litchfield forecast zone
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
41.847, -73.221 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A large storm center formed off the mid Atlantic coast on the morning of March 5. The low proceeded slowly to the north, off the DelMarVa peninsula, then the coast of New Jersey, reaching just south of central Long Island by late in the day. Then, during the overnight hours, a strong upper level disturbance, diving south from the eastern Great Lakes, added energy to the storm and forced it to temporarily track to the west and nearly stall near New York city. The cyclone then pulled southeast away from Long Island later on March 6. This storm, the biggest nor'easter of the winter season, produced an extended period of moderate to heavy snow, starting early Monday morning and not ending until Tuesday evening. Some sleet and freezing rain mixed in during the day Monday but this was primarily a snow maker. A general 12 to 18 inches of snow fell across Litchfield County. Specific snowfall amounts included 14.5 inches at Bakersville, 12 inches at Thomaston Lake and 18 inches at Falls Village. Many schools and businesses were closed across Northwest Connecticut. The governor declared a ban on all commercial truck travel from 5AM Monday the 5th, until noon the following Tuesday. Also, for the first time since 1978, the U.S. Postal Service was closed throughout the state.

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

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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: 5234204.