Heavy Snow, Oswego
- When
- March 9, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Oswego forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.464, -76.209 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in New York, March 9, 2001
Low pressure along the New England coast intensified and produced a general snowfall across the North Country. Six to ten inches fell during the morning hours with seven inches reported in Redfield and 8" in North Osceola.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BUF wrote it up.
Low pressure along the New England coast intensified and produced a general snowfall across the North Country. Six to ten inches fell during the morning hours with seven inches reported in Redfield and 8" in North Osceola.
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 Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 9, 10:30 AM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 10:30 AM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1030 AM EST FRI MAR 9 2001 LOW OVR BGM THIS MRNG A BIT STRONGER AND FURTHER NORTH THAN MODELS SHOWED YESTERDAY BUT GENLY HEAVIER PRECIP HAS BEEN ALNG I-81 CORRIDOR AND EASTWARD WITH SHARP CUTOFF TO SNOW ARND CANANDAIQUA LAKE. MESOETA SHOWS 850-700 OMEGA BULLS-EYE VCNTY SYR THIS MRNG WHEN THEY WERE DOWN TO 1/8TH OF A MILE IN HVY SNOW. MESOETA TAKES THIS AREA NORTH INTO LEWIS CNTY AND EASTERN JEFF CNTY THIS AFTN. WILL KEEP EXISTING ADVSRYS GOING BUT UP AMNTS SLIGHTLY TO 3-6 INCHES THIS AFTN FOR LEWIS AND 3-6 EASTERN OSW CNTY AND 1-3 WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMNTS EASTERN JEFFERSON CNTY. GENLY SCT SNOW SHWRS |ELSEWHERE. TWEAKED TEMPS UP A BIT ESPCLY WESTERN AREAS WHERE SOME BRKS OF SUN EVEN PSBL. NO CHANGES TO REST OF FCST. .BUF...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY NYZ006-008. PACE
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Lewis
- When
- March 9, 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Lewis forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.785, -75.449 (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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Rhode Island, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 9, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Winter Weather in New York, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 9, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 9 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 9, 2001
More
Every storm in New York in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, March 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: 5235836, 5235837.