The snowstorm of November 25 to 28, 2019

The Regional Snowfall Index is NOAA’s ranking of snowstorms east of the Rockies by how much snow fell, over how wide an area and on how many people, region by region: the area and the population above four snowfall thresholds set for each region, weighted against that region’s own history. A storm is scored in each region it reached, on a scale from 1, notable, to 5, extreme.

Events

399

Deaths

1

Injuries

10

Damage

$650,000

Episodes

48

Every winter weather episode the Weather Service filed east of the Rockies in these dates. A few may belong to another system on the same days. 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.

• Winter Weather in New York, November 23 to 24, 20199 eventsWidespread precipitation developed in association with a coastal low pressure system during the late evening of the 23rd in eastern New York.
• Winter Weather in Massachusetts, November 24, 20192 eventsWidespread precipitation developed in association with a coastal low pressure system during the early morning hours of the 24th. While lower elevations saw mainly rain, some of the higher elevations in the Berkshires saw a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain changing to snow.
• Winter Weather in Connecticut, November 24, 20191 eventWidespread precipitation developed in association with a coastal low pressure system during the early morning hours of the 24th.
• Winter Weather in Vermont, November 24, 20193 eventsWidespread precipitation developed in association with a coastal low pressure system during the early morning hours of the 24th. In some portions of southern Vermont, the precipitation came as a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain changing to snow.
• Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, November 24, 20191 eventLow pressure meandered into the Ohio River Valley on the evening of November 23rd and began to weaken as secondary development took place over coastal North Carolina.
• Heavy Snow in Maine, November 24 to 25, 20193 eventsLow pressure meandered into the Ohio River Valley on the evening of the November 23rd and began to weaken as secondary development took place over coastal North Carolina.
• Heavy Snow in Maine, November 24 to 25, 20191 eventIntensifying low pressure tracked across the Gulf of Maine during the 24th then exited across the Maritimes during the 25th. Snow began during the evening of the 24th and persisted into the morning of the 25th.
• Blizzard and Winter Storm in Colorado, November 25 to 26, 201928 eventsA powerful winter storm brought very heavy snowfall to the Front Range Mountains, Foothills, I-25 corridor and northeast plains. Heavy snow developed in and near the Front Range Foothills of Larimer and Boulder counties, then spread south and east across the rest of the region.
• Heavy Snow in Nebraska, November 25 to 26, 20196 eventsPersistent moderate to heavy snowbands moved across the Nebraska Panhandle starting late in the day on the 25th through early afternoon on the 26th producing fairly widespread snowfall over 6 inches in the southern half.
• Winter Storm in Nebraska, November 25 to 26, 201916 eventsA storm system caused winter storm conditions to develop on the evening of November 25th, which continued during the daytime and evening hours November 26th. Total snowfall amounts ranged from 4 to 10 inches, with the highest amounts across portions of the western Sandhills.
• Winter Storm in Colorado, November 25 to 26, 20193 eventsThe next in a series of storm systems generated heavy snow in combination with gusty winds at times.
• Winter Storm in Colorado, November 26, 20192 eventsAfter midnight snowfall began to spread eastward over Yuma and surrounding counties. The snow was accompanied by wind gusts of 30-40 MPH. During the morning a band of heavy snow began to move across Yuma and Kit Carson counties.
• Winter Storm in Nebraska, November 26, 20193 eventsA couple hours after midnight snow began to move into Southwest Nebraska from the west. Wind gusts of 30-40 MPH occurred with the snow. The band of heavy snow from Colorado moved into Southwest Nebraska during the late morning, gradually weakening in the early afternoon.
• Winter Storm in Kansas, November 26, 20197 eventsA few hours after midnight snow began to move into Northwest Kansas from the west. Wind gusts of 30-40 MPH occurred with the snow. The band of heavy snow from Colorado moved into Northwest Kansas during the late morning, gradually weakening in the early afternoon.
• Winter Storm in Nebraska, November 26 to 27, 201921 eventsSix to ten inches of snow fell on this Tuesday, west of a line from Alma to Hastings to Columbus. Around 5 AM CST, a shield of snow began moving into south central Nebraska from the west. Snow expanded across nearly all of south central Nebraska through the morning.
• Winter Storm in Kansas, November 26, 20191 eventUp to an estimated six inches of snow fell over a small part of extreme northwest corner of Phillips county on this Tuesday. Most of the northern and western parts of the county were covered by 3 to 4 inches, with less elsewhere. Only 0.6 was measured at Phillipsburg.
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in South Dakota, November 26 to 27, 20195 injured · 19 eventsA strong jet dug into the southwestern U.S. on November 25 and ejected into the plains by early November 26, where a surface low pressure area began to organize in the southern High Plains.
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Nebraska, November 26 to 27, 201918 eventsA winter storm moved through eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa on November 26-27, 2019. Snowfall amounts of 0.4 to 10 inches were observed.
• Heavy Snow in Minnesota, November 26 to 27, 20196 eventsAn area of low pressure moved from the Texas Panhandle region northeastward to southern Wisconsin from the 26th into the morning of the 27th.
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in California, November 26 to 30, 201917 eventsAfter a dry November a pattern change would occur the week of November 25th. The first event lead to elevated fire weather concerns over much of interior northern California. It was followed by a fairly impactful and unseasonably cold winter storm.
• Winter Storm in Minnesota, November 26 to 27, 20198 eventsA strong jet dug into the southwestern U.S. on November 25 and ejected into the plains by early November 26, where a surface low pressure area began to organize in the southern High Plains.
• Winter Weather in Iowa, November 26 to 27, 20192 eventsA winter storm moved through eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa on November 26-27, 2019. A winter storm watch was issued November 25, Monday afternoon, with the entire area upgraded to a winter storm warning early in the morning on Tuesday November 26.
• Winter Weather in Montana, November 26, 20191 eventScattered snow showers in weakly unstable and moist northwest flow continue through the evening hours, with most areas seeing at least a slight chance of snow. A vort max embedded in the flow moves across the area Monday evening through Tuesday morning.
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, November 26 to 27, 201911 eventsA strong jet dug into the southwestern U.S. on November 25 and ejected into the plains by early November 26, where a surface low pressure area began to organize in the southern High Plains.
• Heavy Snow in Oregon, November 26 to 27, 20192 eventsThe Cascades and Hood River Valley area had a heavy snow event on November 26 through the 27th with values ranging from 13 to 28 inches.
• Winter Storm in Nebraska, November 26 to 27, 20192 eventsA strong jet dug into the southwestern U.S. on November 25, and ejected into the plains by early November 26, where a surface low pressure area began to organize in the southern High Plains.
• Winter Storm in Minnesota, November 26 to 27, 201928 eventsAn anticipated winter storm brought heavy snow across the Upper Midwest. It started late Tuesday afternoon, and quickly exited the region by late Wednesday morning.
• Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, November 26 to 27, 20198 eventsAn area of low pressure moved from the Texas Panhandle region northeastward to southern Wisconsin from the 26th into the morning of the 27th.
• Winter Storm in Minnesota, November 26 to 27, 20196 eventsThe first winter storm of the season moved across the region during the busy pre-Thanksgiving travel period. The storm dumped a swath of heavy snow over much of southeast Minnesota with accumulations generally in the 5 to 8 inch range.
• Winter Storm in Iowa, November 26 to 27, 201911 eventsA surface low pressure system developed on the lee side of the Rockies late November 25th and November 26th.
• Winter Storm in Wisconsin, November 26 to 27, 20199 eventsAn anticipated winter storm brought heavy snow across the Upper Midwest. It started late Tuesday afternoon, and quickly exited the region by late Wednesday morning.
• Winter Storm in Wisconsin, November 26 to 27, 20191 eventThe first winter storm of the season moved across the region in the busy pre-Thanksgiving travel period. The storm dumped a swath of heavy snow over portions of north-central Wisconsin with accumulations generally in the 4 to 6 inch range.
• Winter Storm and Lakeshore Flood in Wisconsin, November 26 to 27, 201911 eventsA strengthening low pressure system developed over the central Plains and moved northeast to Lake Michigan, bringing 10 to 14 inches of heavy snow, and occasionally sleet, to northern and portions of central Wisconsin.
• Winter Storm and Lakeshore Flood in Michigan, November 27 to 28, 2019$650,000 · 14 eventsA deepening storm system tracking from the Central Plains across northern Lower Michigan snarled holiday traffic by dumping moderate to heavy snow across much of west and north central Upper Michigan on the 27th, the day before Thanksgiving.
• Winter Storm in Michigan, November 27, 20191 eventLow pressure intensified as it lifted northeast across the western and northern Great Lakes on the day before Thanksgiving. This brought heavy snow to a portion of eastern upper Michigan.
• Heavy Snow and High Wind in Alaska, November 27 to 28, 201997 kt wind · 3 eventsOn November 27th, a complex and rapidly developing low pressure system moved from the North Pacific towards the Kenai Peninsula. The initial set-up showed a low pressure system in Bristol Bay, extending a warm front through the southern Kenai Peninsula.
• Heavy Snow in Utah, November 27 to 30, 201912 eventsA long duration winter storm system brought impressive snowfall totals over a period of several days across much of the state of Utah.
• Winter Weather in Washington, November 27 to 28, 20193 eventsA low pressure system over Oregon created sustained and intense upslope snow showers driving into portions of the East Slopes of the Cascades on November 27th and 28th.
• Blizzard and Winter Storm in Montana, November 27 to 28, 20199 eventsBlizzard conditions develop as a mesoscale band of heavy snow develops along a surface boundary emerging off of The Rocky Mountain Front. Temperatures drop into the single digits behind the boundary, while wind gusts exceed 45 mph at many locations.
• Heavy Snow in Maine, November 27 to 28, 20192 eventsA strong low pressure system moved into the Great Lakes early on November 27th. Ahead of the storm a warm front lifted into New England.
• Heavy Snow in Maine, November 27 to 28, 20198 eventsWeakening low pressure approached from the west during the 27th. Secondary low pressure then intensified across the Gulf of Maine through the night of the 27th into Thanksgiving morning the 28th. The intensifying low exited across the Maritimes during the 28th.
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in South Dakota, November 28 to 30, 20191 death · 4 injured · 24 eventsClose on the heels of the last winter storm, an amplified upper-air pattern brought another impulse out of the southwestern U.S. early on Friday, November 29 and pushed a shield of light mixed precipitation northeastward across the region with a light accumulation of ice.
• Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in California, November 28 to 29, 20194 eventsA cold and powerful winter storm brought significant winter storm conditions to the Antelope Valley as well as the mountains of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Snow levels bottomed out to between 2000 and 3000 feet.
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Minnesota, November 28 to 30, 20191 injured · 8 eventsClose on the heels of the last winter storm, an amplified upper-air pattern brought another impulse out of the southwestern U.S. early on Friday, November 29 and pushed a shield of light mixed precipitation northeastward across the region with a light accumulation of ice.
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, November 28 to 30, 201911 eventsClose on the heels of the last winter storm, an amplified upper-air pattern brought another impulse out of the southwestern U.S. early on Friday, November 29 and pushed a shield of light mixed precipitation northeastward across the region with a light accumulation of ice.
• Winter Weather in Nebraska, November 28 to 29, 20192 eventsClose on the heels of the last winter storm, an amplified upper-air pattern brought another impulse out of the southwestern U.S. early on Friday, November 29 and pushed a shield of light mixed precipitation northeastward across the region with a light accumulation of ice.
• Winter Storm in South Dakota, November 29 to 30, 201924 eventsA deep low pressure system tracked across the Northern Plains in the days following Thanksgiving, and produced widespread heavy snow across most of central and northeast South Dakota.
• Blizzard and Lakeshore Flood in Minnesota, November 29 to 30, 20197 eventsA slow moving and powerful winter storm spread snow across the Northland starting the evening of the 29th and brought a few waves of snow into the afternoon of the 30th.

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