Arctic air will filter south and east through early this week. As this cold air moves across the South, a rare winter storm is forecast to develop from Texas, Gulf Coast States into the Southeast through early this week. Several new daily record low temperatures are expected, including new record-low maximum temperatures. For Southern California, fire weather concerns increase this week. Read More >
Snowstorm on January 22nd, 2005
| A major snowstorm developed Friday evening in response to the last in a series of potent "Clippers" dropping out of Canada into the Great Lakes. The heaviest snowbands developed by late evening and continued well into Saturday morning as surface low pressure moving east-southeast out of Illinois intensified. Two dominant mesoscale snowbands (Figures 1 & 2) developed in response and were responsible for the majority of the snow accumulation. |
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 Figure 2 National Weather Service Composite Reflectivity image from 331 am EST |
These bands resulted in the higher observed accumulations (Figure 3)...especially the first band (Figure 1) late Friday evening which produced 1 to 2 inch per hour snowfall rates...and resulted in a general 4 to 8 inch snowfall with 8 to 12 inches generally along and north of the toll road. Areas south of highway 30 received considerably less due to a pronounced dry slot which developed Friday night in response to rapid intensification of the upper level system and further northward track. The brown colors in Figure 4 show the dry mid level air wrapping around the southern periphery of the intense surface circulation denoted by the light blue L in Figure 4. |
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 Figure 3 Contour analysis of storm total snowfall |
| Figure 4 is a water vapor satellite image on the morning of January 22nd showing the dry slot moving into western Indiana. Note the developing dry slot (red) on the nose of a 150 mph jet streak (white arrow). Snowband #1 (Figure 1) had pushed into Michigan and northwest Ohio while snowband #2 (Figure 2) was rapidly developing over northwest Indiana. |
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Figure 4 Water Vapor Satellite Image on January 22nd at 301 am EST |
The following are some specific snow reports from around the area
LOCATION COUNTY SNOWFALL ...SOUTHERN MICHIGAN... BENTON HARBOR BERRIEN 8.1 NILES BERRIEN 8.9 EAU CLAIRE BERRIEN 7.6 BARODA BERRIEN 7.7 SISTER LAKES CASS 11.3 CASSOPOLIS CASS 9.5 CENTERVILLE ST. JOSEPH 10.0 COLDWATER BRANCH 8.0 QUINCY BRANCH 8.0 GIRARD BRANCH 8.0 LITCHFIELD HILLSDALE 8.1 ...NORTHWESTERN OHIO... BRYAN WILLIAMS 9.0 DEFIANCE DEFIANCE 9.0 PAULDING PAULDING 7.0 VAN WERT VAN WERT 4.0 WAUSEON FULTON 8.0 NAPOLEON HENRY 9.0 DESHLER HENRY 6.3 OTTAWA PUTNAM 8.0 COLUMBUS GROVE PUTNAM 5.1 PANDORA PUTNAM 5.0 OTTOVILLE PUTNAM 4.5 LIMA ALLEN 4.0 ...NORTHERN INDIANA... ROLLING PRAIRE LA PORTE 9.5 LA PORTE LA PORTE 6.0 MICHIGAN CITY LA PORTE 6.0 KINGSBURY LA PORTE 4.5 NORTH JUDSON STARKE 2.5 WINIMAC PULASKI 2.0 HEADLEE WHITE 0.5 SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH 8.5 SOUTH BEND ARPT ST. JOSEPH 8.6 PLYMOUTH MARSHALL 7.0 ROCHESTER FULTON 2.0 LOGANSPORT CASS 2.7 YOUNG AMERICA CASS 1.6 SIMONTON LAKE ELKHART 9.5 ELKHART ELKHART 8.5 ELKHART 1E ELKHART 8.0 MILLERSBURG ELKHART 6.0 SYRACUSE 4S KOSCIUSKO 7.8 SYRACUSE - NWS KOSCIUSKO 7.4 NORTH WEBSTER KOSCIUSKO 7.8 WARSAW 1E KOSCIUSKO 4.5 WABASH WABASH 3.0 BRIGHTON 4NE LA GRANGE 7.0 LAOTTO NOBLE 7.0 KENDALLVILLE NOBLE 6.8 COLUMBIA CITY WHITLEY 5.0 HUNTINGTON HUNTINGTON 3.1 GAS CITY GRANT 3.0 MARION GRANT 2.5 FREMONT STEUBEN 12.0 ANGOLA STEUBEN 8.0 PLEASANT LAKE STEUBEN 6.0 AUBURN DE KALB 7.0 FT. WAYNE ARPT ALLEN 5.5 HOAGLAND ALLEN 4.0 MONROEVILLE ALLEN 3.8 BLUFFTON WELLS 3.0 HARTFORD CITY BLACKFORD 1.7 MONROE ADAMS 4.0 PORTLAND JAY 2.0 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA THANKS OUR VOLUNTEER SNOW SPOTTERS FOR THEIR REPORTS. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO REPORT YOUR SNOWFALL THROUGHOUT THE WINTER SEASON. $$
TEH/LWF...01/23/05
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