A winter storm tracked from the Ohio Valley across Pennsylvania to off the southern New England coast from the early morning hours of the 12th to the 13th. The storm brought heavy snow to portions of central and north central New York on the 12th with lake effect snow in its wake until the afternoon of the 13th.
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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 BGM wrote it up.
A winter storm tracked from the Ohio Valley across Pennsylvania to off the southern New England coast from the early morning hours of the 12th to the 13th. The storm brought heavy snow to portions of central and north central New York on the 12th with lake effect snow in its wake until the afternoon of the 13th.
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 Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 12, 1:28 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
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9 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 5 to 11 inches with the highest amount at the Greater Binghamton Airport.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 7 to 9 inches with the highest amount in Sherburne.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 7 to 9 inches with the highest amount near Freetown.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 6 to 10 inches with the highest amount near Long Eddy.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 7 to 9 inches with the highest amount in Cooperstown.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 7 to 14 inches with the highest amount near Oneida.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 7 to 13 inches with the highest amount in New Hartford.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 7 to 14 inches with the highest amount near Oneida.
Snowfall accumulations ranged from 6 to 8 inches with the highest amount in Rome.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2017Every state in 2017This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, February 2017
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: 682990, 682991, 682992, 682993, 682996, 682994, 682985, 682995, 682997.