Heavy Snow, Traill
- When
- March 7, 1:17 PM CST to March 8, 1:17 AM CST
- Where
- Traill forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 47.454, -97.162 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in North Dakota, March 7 to 8, 2002
A band of heavy snow fell across Traill county, with Mayville and Clifford each reporting 6 inches.
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 FGF wrote it up.
A band of heavy snow fell across Traill county, with Mayville and Clifford each reporting 6 inches.
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 7, 9:50 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 9:50 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 950 AM CST THU MAR 7 2002 .CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW... 15Z MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED LOW PRESSURE OVER WYOMING WHILE ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE IS POISED FROM LAKE WINNIPEG TO THE WESTERN UPPER GREAT LAKES. STRONGEST PRESSURE FALLS ATTM FROM NEBRASKA INTO SOUTH DAKOTA SUGGESTING LOW SHOULD MOVE EAST INTO SOUTH DAKOTA/NEBRASKA VICINITY THIS AFTERNOON. LATEST KMVX RADAR INDICATED BROAD AREA OF LIGHT SNOW OVER MUCH CWA WITH OCCASIONAL PATCHES OF MODERATE SNOW PER REVIEW OF CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL NETWORK. .FORECAST DETAILS... ATTM WILL HANG TOUGH WITH CURRENT HEADLINES AND THEN RE-EVALUATE SITUATION WITH 12Z MODELS. THUS...NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED TO LATE MORNING UPDATE. .FGF...WINTER STORM WATCH FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ALONG AND SOUTH OF A DVL-GFK TO WASKISH LINE. BERG
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
- Winter Storm in Utah, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Winter Storm in Nevada, March 7, 2002
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in California, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Wisconsin, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 7 to 8, 2002
- Winter Storm in Montana, March 7, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, March 7, 2002
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, March 7 to 9, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, March 7 to 8, 2002
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, 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: 5283941.