Heavy Snow, Garrett
- When
- December 5, 8:00 AM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Garrett forecast zone
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
Heavy Snow in Maryland, December 5, 2009
An area of low pressure moving off the Carolina coast produced heavy snow in the ridges of northern West Virginia and Garrett county Maryland with storm totals from 6 to 8 inches in 12 hours.
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 PBZ wrote it up.
An area of low pressure moving off the Carolina coast produced heavy snow in the ridges of northern West Virginia and Garrett county Maryland with storm totals from 6 to 8 inches in 12 hours.
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
- Dense Fog in California, December 5, 2009
- Winter Weather in Kentucky, December 5, 2009
- Extreme Cold in Oregon, December 5 to 11, 2009
- Winter Weather in Tennessee, December 5, 2009
- Winter Weather in Tennessee, December 5, 2009
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Kentucky, December 5, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Virginia, December 5, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Maryland, December 5, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in West Virginia, December 5, 2009
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, December 5, 2009
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Jersey, December 5, 2009
- Extreme Cold in California, December 5 to 11, 2009
More
Every storm in Maryland in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, December 2009
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 204991.