Heavy Snow, Chippewa
- When
- April 16, 2:40 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Chippewa forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow in Michigan, April 16, 2001
Low pressure moved south from Canada across the Great Lakes region during the day on the 16th. Unseasonably cold air wrapped into this system from the north, creating an area of heavy snowfall across eastern Upper Michigan.
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 happened
The episode as NWS APX wrote it up.
Low pressure moved south from Canada across the Great Lakes region during the day on the 16th. Unseasonably cold air wrapped into this system from the north, creating an area of heavy snowfall across eastern Upper Michigan. The snowfall began early in the morning on the 16th and continued into the evening hours. By 8 pm, 12 hour snowfall totals of 8 to 11 inches were common across eastern Chippewa county.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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More
Every storm in Michigan in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, April 2001
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: 5242641.