Heavy Snow, Eastern Tucker
- When
- March 12, 9:00 PM EST to March 14, 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Eastern Tucker forecast zone
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 39.114, -79.565 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in West Virginia, March 12 to 14, 2018
Upper low brought periods of snow to the high terrain from late on the 12th through the afternoon of the 14th. Snow was heavy at times, allowing for accumulation in to reach 8 inches in the first 24 hour period in Tucker county West Virginia and again in the second period, owing to 16 inches storm total.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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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 PBZ wrote it up.
Upper low brought periods of snow to the high terrain from late on the 12th through the afternoon of the 14th. Snow was heavy at times, allowing for accumulation in to reach 8 inches in the first 24 hour period in Tucker county West Virginia and again in the second period, owing to 16 inches storm total. Elsewhere, amounts ranged from 6-8 inches over Preston county in West Virginia and Garrett county Maryland.
What forecasters said that day
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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 12, 8:10 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 8:10 PM EST, 50 minutes before
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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
- Strong Wind in Georgia, March 12, 2018
- Winter Storm and Hail in California, March 12 to 17, 2018
- Heavy Snow in Virginia, March 12, 2018
- Winter Weather in Virginia, March 12 to 13, 2018
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in New York, March 12 to 15, 2018
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in North Carolina, March 12, 2018
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in West Virginia, March 12 to 13, 2018
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 12 to 13, 2018
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Rhode Island, March 12 to 13, 2018
- Winter Weather in New Jersey, March 12 to 13, 2018
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New York, March 12 to 13, 2018
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Connecticut, March 12 to 13, 2018
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2018Every state in 2018This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, March 2018
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: 747764.