Storm system developed off the Virginia coast early Monday, March 5th. It moved slowly northeast to near Cape Cod, Ma late Monday night, March 5th and Tuesday morning, March 6th.
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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.
The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
Storm system developed off the Virginia coast early Monday, March 5th. It moved slowly northeast to near Cape Cod, Ma late Monday night, March 5th and Tuesday morning, March 6th. The storm moved slowly away from New England during Tuesday, March 6th. Snow overspread Vermont Monday morning (March 5th) and became steady by afternoon and continued through the night before tapering off later Tuesday, March 6th. The snow was heavy at times. Some impacts included: Many schools were closed and many towns postponed their Town meeting day. A number of accidents were reported including some on I-89 and one in the Town of Milton (Chittenden county) which resulted in an injury. In Barre, VT (Washington county) a roof collapsed (apparently due to the weight of the snow). Generally, between 15 and 30 inches of snow fell, with the least in the shadow effect areas of Orange county and eastern Washington county. A few snowfall reports included: In Chittenden county, Underhill had 28.6 inches while So. Burlington had 22.9 inches. In Lamoille county, Eden received 20.8 inches. In Washington county, Northfield reported 16 inches while in Orange county, Chelsea had 15 inches.
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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 5, 3:34 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 334 PM EST MON MAR 5 2001 SNOWING LIKE CRAZY OUTSIDE AND ITS GOING TO CONTINUE. IR LOOP OVER PAST HALF HR SHOWING RAPIDLY COOLING TOPS AND PLUME OF MSTR EXTENDING ACRS ERN LONG ISLAND UP INTO CHAMPLAIN VLY. MORNING'S ETA RUN YET AGAIN A LTL FURTHER N THAN LAST RUNS...AND SFC LO TAKES AN IMPRESSIVE TURN TO THE WEST DURG DAY TUES AND LOOPS ARND AS IT GETS CAPTURED BY MAIN UPR CLOSED LO. SOME DIFFERENCES BTWN ETA AND AVN... WTH AVN FURTHER E AFT 24 HRS AND A LITTLE LESS EAGER TO MOVE SFC LOW TO W. WE'LL GET MOST SNOW TONIGHT...AND MDL DIFFERENCES WON'T COME IN TO PLAY UNTIL TUESDAY. MSTR AND HIGHEST QPF POINTED AT VT THROUGH PD...FIRST FROM SE AS LO APPROACHES SRN NEW ENGLAND...THEN FM E AS LOW CRANKS AWAY S OF THE CAPE. WL GET A GOOD 12 HRS OF STEADY SNOWS OVERNIGHT. EXTENDED SNOW A LTL LATER IN DAY ON TUES WHILE SFC LOW MAKES ITS LOOP...THEN HEADS E ON WED. UPPED STORM TOTAL SNOW AMOUNTS. WE HAD SEVERAL REPORTS IN ADDISON VT/ESSEX NY OF 7 INCHES ALREADY...SO ADJUSTED TOTALS UP ACCORDINGLY. WIND OVERNGT AND TUES SHUD BE UP TO 15-25 MPH...WTH BLOWING/DRIFING SNOW. BREAK ON WED/THU...THEN FRI INTO SATURDAY AVN IS SHOWING THE NEXT UPR TROF TAKING ON A NEGATIVE TILT...WTH SFC LO CROSSING INTO THE ATLANTIC OVR NEW JERSEY. WL HAVE TO WATCH FOR ANOTR COASTAL STORM THIS WEEKEND. COORD WTH GYX...ALY...BUF...BUT WAS MISSED B8Y THE CONF CALL. WORKZONES ALREADY OUT. .BTV...WNTR STM WRNG VTZ001>012-NYZ029>031-034 THRU TUE. HANSON
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Vermont in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, March 2001
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: 5238120, 5238121, 5238122, 5238123, 5238124.