Low pressure brought widespread snow January 24th, which was enhanced by Lake Michigan. Strong winds also accompanied this system, resulting in whiteout conditions at times and causing considerable blowing and drifting snow, that resulted in numerous accidents.
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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.
The episode as NWS GRR wrote it up.
Low pressure brought widespread snow January 24th, which was enhanced by Lake Michigan. Strong winds also accompanied this system, resulting in whiteout conditions at times and causing considerable blowing and drifting snow, that resulted in numerous accidents.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 23, 3:28 PM EST, 15 hours 32 minutes earlier.
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11 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight inches of snow fell in Martin and Wayland with over 6 inches reported in Hopkins.
A trained spotter reported six inches of snow in Delton.
A trained spotter measured over 9 inches of snow near Scottville.
Trained weather observers reported eight and a half inches of snow near Allendale and Walker and a little over seven inches of snow in Holland.
Trained weather observers reported eight inches of snow in Bloomingdale and approximately six near Bangor.
Up to 10 inches of snow fell with strong winds across the County.
Up to 10 inches of snow fell with strong winds across the County.
Up to 10 inches of snow fell with strong winds across the County.
Up to 10 inches of snow fell with strong winds across the County.
Up to 10 inches of snow fell with strong winds across the County.
Spotters reported seven to nine inches of snow near Fremont and White Cloud.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, January 2014
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: 493623, 493624, 493626, 493631, 493632, 513266, 513267, 513268, 513269, 513270, 493629.