Winter Weather, Addison
- When
- March 20, 3:00 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Addison forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.031, -73.141 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather in Vermont, March 20, 2002
A late season winter storm moved northeast from the Tennessee Valley early Wednesday, March 20th passing across southern New England Wednesday night. Snow spread across the area during the morning and became steadier during the afternoon into the early night hours.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 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
- $15,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 BTV wrote it up.
A late season winter storm moved northeast from the Tennessee Valley early Wednesday, March 20th passing across southern New England Wednesday night. Snow spread across the area during the morning and became steadier during the afternoon into the early night hours. Accumulations of the wet snow were generally 3 to 6 inches with lesser amounts across the remainder of northwest Vermont.
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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 20, 12:05 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 12:05 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1205 PM EST WED MAR 20 2002 ...AND THE WINNER IS... YES...SNOW HAS ARRIVED ACROSS THE NORTH COUNTRY SOONER THAN SPRING...THAT ARRIVES THIS AFTN. BIG STORY: WWA ISSUED AT 11 AM FOR ALL ZONES XCPT ST LWRNC VLY. CRNT/SHORT TERM: SFC TMPS STARTED IN M-U30S BUT TDD IN M20S HAS ALLOWED TMPS TO REACH WET-BULB IN L30S...THUS PRIMARILY SNOW EVENT WITH SOME MIXING IN LOWEST VLYS (<500 FT). ETA QPF HAS APPEARED OVERDONE FM THE BEGINNING...BUT THE HEAVIER TREND IS IN THE BALLPARK. SFC LOW APPEARS SLOWER THAN YDY MDLS AND LOOKS TO BE A LONGER... BETTER ORGANIZED WAA PATTERN AGD OF SFC LOW TO TRANSPORT MOISTURE NORTHWARD. WV IMAGERY AND ESP RDR IMAGERY SHWS MUCH MORE BROADER AND ORGANIZED WAA PTRN THAN LAST EVENT. AGAIN...MDLS CONSISTENT WITH TWO SFC LOWS AND SRN LOW BEING DOMINANT BUT NRN LOW ALG WITH NRN S/W AND DVLPG NRN LW TROF ASSOC WITH POLAR VORTEX WL ACCNT FOR SLGTLY NEG TILT SYSTEM TO THROW MOISTURE NW INTO FA. THIS MOISTURE COMBINED WITH DFLNT FLOW THIS AFTN THEN ACTUAL INTENSIFYING S/W MVG ACRS FA SHLD ANNCT FOR WAA SNOWS TO END FOLLOWED BY SOME DYNAMIC ENHANCED ACTVTY. SO...WWA HAVE BEEN HOISTED FOR ALL BUT ST LWRNC RVR VLY FOR 2-5 BUT LOCALIZED 6+ IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS PSBL. IF THAT/S NOT ENUF FOR THIS FIRST DAY OF SPRING...SFC WAVE TRAVELING ALG ARCTIC FNT WL SLOW TIMING OF FNT BY 6-8 HRS FM ERLR FCSTS TO AFTN IN NRN NY AND LATE AFTN/EVE IN VT. SNOW AND SQUALLS ARE LKLY WITH THESE FEATURES FOR ANTHR FUN RIDE ON THE FIRST FULL DAY OF SPRING. IS THERE ANY QUESTION WHY MARCH (CLIMO) IS BCMG THE SNOWIEST MONTH IN THE NORTH COUNTRY. VERNAL EQUINOX ARRIVES AT 216 PM TODAY...CANT YOU TELL? ANTHR DISC WITH AFTN FCST PKG LTR. .BTV...WNTR WX ADV THRU THIS EVENING VTZ001>012-NYZ028>031-034-035 SLW
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Winter Weather, Essex
- When
- March 20, 3:00 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Essex forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.728, -71.736 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather, Franklin
- When
- March 20, 3:00 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.858, -72.912 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Winter Weather
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Kentucky, March 20 to 21, 2002
- Flooding in West Virginia, March 20 to 21, 2002
- Flooding in Ohio, March 20, 2002
- Flooding in Kentucky, March 20, 2002
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 20, 2002
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 20, 2002
- Flood in Kentucky, March 20, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, March 20, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, March 20, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Maine, March 20 to 21, 2002
- Winter Weather in New York, March 20, 2002
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 20 to 21, 2002
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, 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: 5284747, 5284748, 5284749.