Heavy Snow, Grand Traverse
- When
- January 8, 4:00 PM EST to 8:00 PM EST
- Where
- Grand Traverse forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.716, -85.552 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 8, 2001
A north wind, combined with arctic air, caused snow showers along the Lake Michigan shoreline of northwest Lower Michigan. The heaviest occurred within the city limits of Traverse City as well as along the Old Mission Peninsula on Grand Traverse Bay, where the snowfall began late in the evening on the 7th and persisted through the afternoon on the 8th.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
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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 happened
The episode as NWS APX wrote it up.
A north wind, combined with arctic air, caused snow showers along the Lake Michigan shoreline of northwest Lower Michigan. The heaviest occurred within the city limits of Traverse City as well as along the Old Mission Peninsula on Grand Traverse Bay, where the snowfall began late in the evening on the 7th and persisted through the afternoon on the 8th. By the evening of the 8th, 24-hour snowfall totals ranged from 8 to 9 inches in these locations.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Heavy Snow in California, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Winter Weather in West Virginia, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Rain in California, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Virginia, January 8, 2001
- Flood in California, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Dust Storm in California, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Flood in California, January 8, 2001
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, January 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5230071.