Winter Storm, Bennington
- When
- March 5, 10:00 AM EST to March 6, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Bennington forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.036, -73.093 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2001
A large storm center formed off the mid Atlantic coast on the morning of March 5. The low proceeded slowly to the north, off the DelMarVa peninsula, then the coast of New Jersey, and reached just south of central Long Island by late in the day.
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
- None recorded
- 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 ALY wrote it up.
A large storm center formed off the mid Atlantic coast on the morning of March 5. The low proceeded slowly to the north, off the DelMarVa peninsula, then the coast of New Jersey, and reached just south of central Long Island by late in the day. During the overnight hours, a strong upper level disturbance, diving south from the eastern Great Lakes, added energy to the storm and forced it to temporarily track to the west, and nearly stall in the vicinity of New York city. The cyclone pulled southeast away from Long Island later on March 6. This storm became the biggest nor'easter of the winter season as it produce an extended period of moderate to heavy snow, starting early Monday morning across southern Vermont and not ending until early Tuesday afternoon. Around two feet of snow buried the area, making this the biggest general snowfall in southern Vermont since the Blizzard of 93. The height of the storm occurred during the overnight hours of March 5th to 6th. Townshend Lake in Windham County reported five inches in one hour , as well as thundersnow. They ended up with a storm total of 25.5 inches. In Bennington County, Pownal had 26 and Peru 27 inches of accumulation. No unusual problems were reported with this snowstorm to the National Weather Service.
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 Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 5, 9:48 AM EST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 9:48 AM EST, 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
948 AM EST MON MAR 5 2001
.DISC...WL ISSUE AN UPDATE ARND 1000 AM. OVRNGHT AMTS CLOSE TO
FORECAST AMTS END OF THE DAY N AND W OF CAP DSTRCT. WL UP AMTS THRU
THIS EVNG BY ABT 2 TO 4 INCHES. WL BASE MCH OF FORECAST ON H8
DEFORMATION ZONE WHICH SHIFTS FM WRN AND NRN PTN OF FA INTO ERN
CTSKLS...GTR CAP DSTRCT AND SRN VT 18Z AND THEN INTO TACONICS AND
BERKS TNGHT WHICH THEN BECOMES FAIRLY STATIONARY THRU MCH OF OVRNGHT
PD. WL EXTEND AREA OF MIXED PCPN A LITTLE FRTHR N INTO CTSKLS AND
BERKS AS WELL AS UP HDSN VLY TO CLOSE TO CAP DSTRCT. A MIXTURE OF
SNOW AND SLEET HAS BEEN REPORTED AS FAR NORTH AS CATSKILL THIS MRNG.
SEE LATEST PNS FOR SNOWFALL TOTALS THUS FAR.
.ALY...WINTER STORM WARNING THRU TUE NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-
058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014-MAZ001-CTZ001The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Winter Storm, Windham
- When
- March 5, 11:00 AM EST to March 6, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Windham forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.991, -72.714 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Winter Storm
- A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding and Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Rhode Island, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 5 to 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, 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: 5234127, 5234128.