Heavy Snow, Pine
- When
- March 14, 2:00 PM CST to March 15, 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Pine forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.121, -92.741 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Minnesota, March 14 to 15, 2002
Twenty inches of snow fell in Askov.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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 DLH wrote it up.
Twenty inches of snow fell in Askov.
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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 14, 3:40 AM CST, 10 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 3:40 AM CST, 10 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
340 AM CST THU MAR 14 2002
APPROACHING STORM SHAPING UP WITH ALL MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT.
STRONG EXIT REGION DYNAMICS AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE COME TOGETHER BY
LATE AFTERNOON IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN WITH VERY STRONG OMEGA
CONTINUING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. HEAVY SNOW EXPECTED WITH ETA
PRODUCING UP TO A FOOT...THUS WATCH AS BEEN UPGRADED TO A WINTER
STORM WARNING. SURFACE LOW PASSES WELL TO THE SOUTH ACROSS IOWA AND
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN...THUS NOT MUCH EXPECTED FROM DULUTH NORTHWARD
WITH CANADIAN BORDER ZONES REMAINING DRY. NORTHEAST WINDS PICK UP
WITH STRONGEST WINDS FUNNELING ACROSS THE LAKE INTO THE DULUTH/
SUPERIOR AREA. LINGERING WRAP AROUND SNOW EXPECTED FRIDAY IN
WISCONSIN ZONES. WEAK ZONAL FLOW DEVELOPS FRIDAY WITH WEAK SURFACE
LOW PASSING ACROSS SOUTHERN MANITOBA INTO ONTARIO...DYNAMICS AND
MOISTURE LACKING FOR ANY PRECIPITATION HOWEVER. BELTZ
.DLH...WINTER STORM WARNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MN ZONE
38 AND WISCONSIN ZONES 1>4-6>9.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
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 14, 2002
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in Iowa, March 14, 2002
- Ice Storm in Iowa, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 14 to 15, 2002
- Avalanche in Utah, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, March 14, 2002
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, March 14 to 15, 2002
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, March 14 to 15, 2002
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, March 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: 5284645.