Heavy Snow, Berks
- When
- April 18, 2:00 AM EST to 6:00 AM EST
- Where
- Berks forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.416, -75.926 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, April 18, 2001
An upper air disturbance generated snow flurries and snow showers across Eastern Pennsylvania during the morning of the 18th. Accumulations, mainly on grassy areas, averaged an inch or less.
Where it happened
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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 PHI wrote it up.
An upper air disturbance generated snow flurries and snow showers across Eastern Pennsylvania during the morning of the 18th. Accumulations, mainly on grassy areas, averaged an inch or less. The exception was over some of the higher terrain in eastern parts of Berks County where heavier snow showers produced locally higher accumulations. Three to five inches of snow accumulated near Fredericksville.
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
- Extreme Cold in South Carolina, April 18, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Kentucky, April 18, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Illinois, April 18, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Missouri, April 18, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Indiana, April 18, 2001
- Blizzard in Alaska, April 18 to 19, 2001
- Winter Storm in Maine, April 18, 2001
- Wildfire in New York, April 18, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5240646.