Heavy Snow in Maine, April 25 to 26, 2002

Name: Heavy Snow in Maine, April 25 to 26, 2002
Start: 2002-04-25T20:00
End: 2002-04-26T07:00
Location: Maine

April 25 to 26, 2002 · NWS GYX · 14 events in 14 counties and zones

A late season winter-like storm dropped 1 to 5 inches of snow across parts of western Maine. 7 inches of snow.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 14 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 14

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 GYX wrote it up.

A late season winter-like storm dropped 1 to 5 inches of snow across parts of western Maine. While many of the reports were in the 1 to 2 inch range, the town of Poland in western Androscoggin County reported 4.7 inches of snow.

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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 25, 7:45 PM EST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 7:45 PM EST, 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
845 PM EDT THU APR 25 2002

DISC...PCPN CONTS TO CHANGE TO -SN AS WE SPEAK ACRS ERN NH & WRN
ME.  AREAS THAT ARE CHANGING APPEAR TO BE MORE CLOSELY TIED TO INCR
OF VERT MOTION ASSOC W/ CYCLOGENESIS TO OUR S.  EVN CSTL ZNS HV
CHANGED OVR TO SN AS FAR S AS PSM.  FURTHER N & W...PCPN STILL IN
THE FORM OF -RA DESPITE ELEV.

00Z POS OF SFC LOW VRY SIMILAR TO ETA/AVN SOLN.  BACK EDGE CONTS TO
SHFT E...HWVR DVLPMNT OF CSTL LOW HAS SLOWED THS PROGRESSION
SLIGHTLY.  DVLPG SFC LOW CIRC SHOWING UP WELL ON LATEST RADAR
COMPOSITES.

ALTHO BNDRY LYR CONDS CONT TO RPDLY COOL...GRND TEMPS STILL ARE VRY
WARM AS APPARENT FM LACK OF ANY APPRECIABLE ACCUM FM SPOTTER CALLS
(HWVR ALTON BAY HAS CLIMBED TO 2).  WL CONT TO MONITOR SFC & MARINE
OBS VRY CLOSELY.  AT THIS TIME...WE ARE HEDGING ON DROPPING ACCUMS
DOWN BY A CATAG MST ZNS.  MST FAVORABLE AREA FOR A QUASI-STATIONARY
BND OF ACCUM SN TO SETUP CONTS TO ACRS INTERIOR SE NH - THRU W CNTRL
ME.

MARINE...GALES TO RMN IN PLC AS NERLY GRDNT BUILDS FM THE NE LTE
TNGT.  WL BUMP US SEAS SLIGHTLY.

STATEMENT UPDATED THS LAST HR.

.GYX...
ME...WTR WX ADVIS MEZ012>014-018>022.
     GLW.
NH...WTR WX ADVIS NHZ004-006.
     GLW.

JC

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

14 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Androscoggin

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Androscoggin forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.166, -70.206 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Central Somerset

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Central Somerset forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 45.514, -69.959 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Coastal Cumberland

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Coastal Cumberland forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.806, -70.330 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Coastal York

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Coastal York forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.429, -70.670 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Interior Cumberland

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Interior Cumberland forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.806, -70.330 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Interior York

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Interior York forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.429, -70.670 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Kennebec

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Kennebec forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.409, -69.767 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Lincoln

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Lincoln forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.998, -69.526 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Northern Franklin

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Franklin forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.974, -70.444 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Northern Oxford

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Oxford forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.500, -70.757 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Sagadahoc

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Sagadahoc forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 43.912, -69.839 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Southern Franklin

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Franklin forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.974, -70.444 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Southern Oxford

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Oxford forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 44.500, -70.757 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Southern Somerset

When: April 25, 8:00 PM EST to April 26, 7:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Somerset forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 45.514, -69.959 (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

Every storm in Maine in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Maine, April 2002

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: 5293226, 5293227, 5293228, 5293229, 5293230, 5293287, 5293288, 5293289, 5293290, 5293291, 5293292, 5293293, 5293294, 5293295.