Winter Storm in Michigan, November 24 to 25, 2004

A potent winter storm brought heavy snow and wind across southern and south central lower Michigan on November the 24th on the da before Thanksgiving. Low pressure developed over eastern Texas late on the 23rd and intensified rapidly as it moved moved northeast to western Ohio on Wednesday evening. Precipitation began as rain along the I-94 corridor but changed to snow by around noon. Snow become moderate to heavy during the early to mid afternoon hours, when snowfall rates of two to three inches an hour were reported at times. Moderate to heavy snow continued into the early evening hours before gradually diminishing overnight. The snowfall at Grand Rapids was the third heaviest 24 hour snowfall on record (9.7 inches of snow was recorded between noon and midnight). Eight to eleven inches of snow was reported in a band from central Van Buren and Allegan counties east northeast to Kent county, Montcalm county, and northwest Gratiot county. East Grand Rapids reported the heaviest total snowfall (eleven inches). Ten inches of snow was reported in Wyoming. Numerous reports of six to nine inches of snow were received from Kent, Allegan, Calhoun, Jackson, Clinton and Eaton counties.