Heavy Snow, Louisa
- When
- March 23, 8:00 AM CST to 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Louisa forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.219, -91.260 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Iowa, March 23, 2005
A storm system moved passing through Southern Missouri produced a mesoscale band of precipitation across Southeast Iowa and into West Central and Northwest Illinois during the evening of 22 March 2005 into mid morning of 23 March 2005. The strength of the forcing aloft allowed the rain to change over to snow and accumulate anywhere from 2 to 4 inches in a 50 mile wide band roughly from…
Where it happened
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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 DVN wrote it up.
A storm system moved passing through Southern Missouri produced a mesoscale band of precipitation across Southeast Iowa and into West Central and Northwest Illinois during the evening of 22 March 2005 into mid morning of 23 March 2005. The strength of the forcing aloft allowed the rain to change over to snow and accumulate anywhere from 2 to 4 inches in a 50 mile wide band roughly from Fairfield, Iowa to Princeton, Illinois during a 12 hour period. One lone 6 inch snow report occurred 1.5 miles Southeast of Grandview, Iowa.
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
- Hail in California, March 23, 2005
- High Wind in Florida, March 23, 2005
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, March 23 to 24, 2005
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 23 to 24, 2005
- Winter Storm in Montana, March 23, 2005
- Rip Current in Florida, March 23, 2005
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 23 to 24, 2005
- Hail in West Virginia, March 23, 2005
- Hail in North Carolina, March 23, 2005
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in New Jersey, March 23 to 24, 2005
- Debris Flow and Heavy Rain in California, March 23, 2005
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, March 23 to 24, 2005
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, March 2005
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: 5440024.