Heavy Snow, Mackinac
- When
- February 22, 6:00 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Mackinac forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow in Michigan, February 22, 2001
A cold front moved southeast into the western Great Lakes region from Alberta during the morning and afternoon of the 22nd. South winds ahead of this cold front, combined with cold air over Lake Michigan, produced a heavy band of lake effect snow across western Mackinac county.
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.
A cold front moved southeast into the western Great Lakes region from Alberta during the morning and afternoon of the 22nd. South winds ahead of this cold front, combined with cold air over Lake Michigan, produced a heavy band of lake effect snow across western Mackinac county. The snowfall began during the morning of the 22nd and continued through the evening. By 800 pm, 12-hour snowfall totaled 8 to 12 inches across the western half of Mackinac county.
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 Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 22, 4:07 PM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 4:07 PM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 407 PM EST THU FEB 22 2001 LATEST SURFACE OBSERVATIONS SHOWING VISIBILITIES NEAR A QUARTER MILE NEAR PELLSTON, CHARLEVOIX, AND INDIAN RIVER. 850 TEMPS NEAR -14C AND INVERSION HEIGHTS AROUND 6500 FEET HELPING TO CREATE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. LAKE EFFECT ENHANCEMENT COMBINING WITH FRONTAL SYNOPTIC SITUATION IS PRODUCING SNOWFALL RATES AROUND HALF AN INCH AN HOUR AND THINK THESE WILL LAST ANOTHER 3 HOURS OR SO. .APX...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...TONIGHT...MIZ016-017-019-021-022. KRENTZ
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
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Georgia, February 22, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, February 22, 2001
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Virginia, February 22, 2001
- Winter Storm in Virginia, February 22, 2001
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Virginia, February 22, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, February 22 to 23, 2001
- Sleet in North Carolina, February 22, 2001
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Maryland, February 22, 2001
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, February 22, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, February 22 to 23, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Maine, February 22 to 23, 2001
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in West Virginia, February 22, 2001
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, February 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: 5235385.