Heavy Snow, Chippewa
- When
- January 28, 7:00 PM EST to 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Chippewa forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 28, 2004
Heavy lake effect snow showers developed during the morning of the 28th. In the snowbelts of Northwest Lower Michigan, around 6 inches of snow fell in the Elmira area before things tapered off in the evening.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
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- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 APX wrote it up.
Heavy lake effect snow showers developed during the morning of the 28th. In the snowbelts of Northwest Lower Michigan, around 6 inches of snow fell in the Elmira area before things tapered off in the evening. In Chippewa County in Upper Michigan, 6 to 12 inches of new snow fell at Paradise and Point Iroquois.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Otsego
- When
- January 28, 7:00 PM EST to 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Otsego forecast zone
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 45.021, -84.599 (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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Cold in Illinois, January 28 to 29, 2004
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 28 to 31, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 28, 2004
- Cold in Nebraska, January 28, 2004
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in New York, January 28, 2004
- Winter Storm in New York, January 28, 2004
- Cold in Iowa, January 28, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, January 28, 2004
- High Wind in North Carolina, January 28, 2004
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 28, 2004
- Winter Storm in Michigan, January 28 to 31, 2004
- Winter Storm in Massachusetts, January 28, 2004
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, January 2004
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5382743, 5382744.