Heavy Snow, Door
- When
- December 26, 4:00 AM CST to 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Door forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 44.838, -87.358 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, December 26, 2004
Cold air moving across Lake Michigan on northeast winds resulted in lake effect snow showers. 5 inches of snow fell 2 miles north of Baileys Harbor and 7 inches of snow fell near Sturgeon Bay.
Where it happened
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- 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 GRB wrote it up.
Cold air moving across Lake Michigan on northeast winds resulted in lake effect snow showers. These snow showers produced heavy snow over Door county where 8.5 inches of snow fell 2 miles north of Baileys Harbor and 7 inches of snow fell near Sturgeon Bay.
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
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- Ice Storm in Georgia, December 26, 2004
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, December 26, 2004
- Winter Weather in New Jersey, December 26 to 27, 2004
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, December 26, 2004
- Ice Storm in South Carolina, December 26, 2004
- Winter Storm in Massachusetts, December 26 to 27, 2004
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, December 26, 2004
- Winter Storm in Virginia, December 26, 2004
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, December 26 to 27, 2004
- Winter Storm in Rhode Island, December 26 to 27, 2004
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, December 26, 2004
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, December 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: 5432547.