The Storm of The Century: 1993 Superstorm | Winter Storm Archive
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- The Storm of The Century dumped a huge swatch of heavy snow from Alabama all the way up through Maine. It was as strong as a Category 1 Hurricane and produced hurricane-like storm surge in Florida. The storm was so dynamic that it produced thunder snow from the Gulf Coast to up into Canada. The Appalachian Mountains picked up anywhere from 2 to 5 feet of snow with winds gusts exceeding 100 mph at times, creating an absolute standstill blizzard. For those who experienced it, it will not soon be forgotten.
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We lost power for a week after this one. The snow was so high it took 3 plows going up the road at the same time to cut through all the drifts. One big V up the front, and two regular plows in behind flanking. The mounds of snow reached to the top of the utility poles. Wild stuff.
Living in Naples, FL at the time (and now)....will never forget standing in the middle of the living room with STROBE-light lightning going on at like 2 a.m. or so....it WAS SURREAL.
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I remember as a kid in a Montreal suburb that that storm struck while my dad and sister went to the movies, my mother and I staying back home. When dad and sis returned, there was 3 feet of snow in the driveway!
My daughter was born March 17th 1993.Driving to and fro to the Hospital just added to everything.
It was a tremendously strong storm system. The 93 Superstorm is still my largest snow in my lifetime here in SE KY, and I am nearing 40 years old now.
I as well am nearing 40, and it’s by far the largest snow I’ve ever seen. We got close to 30 inches where I was in upper East Tennessee and it hit quickly and violently. I can remember riding my 4 wheeler in it like 2-3 days after the storm hit. I remember as it was snowing it was thundering. I was young around 10-11 and my dad and I walked out in it, the wind was blowing so hard I couldn’t stand up. This storm is forever etched in memory.
I am from Ky too! I seen that another one like this could possibly happen this year but they’re not sure yet 😳
@@Alexis-pt2cuI hope to see a large snow this year! We received a decent snowfall for Christmas EVE in SE KY! Obviously no equivalent to the 93 Superstorm but definitely a different weather pattern this December than past several mild, snowless winters. Time will tell what the next few months can bring.
happy gal40 I also live in the eastern part! And we got 7 inches on christmas it was awesome! Going to be prepared for this next one better lol
@@kylechrestman6955 At some point, a storm like this will hit Southern Appalachia again. We are in the same overall weather region. Despite not being a real cold winter, it has actually been a lot more snowy here through January 17th than past few winters. 🤞 This may be the year for a big snow in the coming weeks!
Definitely the biggest snow fall I've ever seen. In south east Tennessee we got 21". I was 13 years old, will never forget it!
Was 12yrs old and me and my brother and Mother had went from Floyd Co Eastern Ky to Letcher Co to spend the weekend with my grandparents. Over the 2 days Letcher Co which is higher elevation than some surrounding areas, received almost 48” where we were at, with snow drifts 6’ and probably then some! Somehow we NEVER lost power, and my Gramdmother introduced me and my brother to actual really good homemade SNOW CREAM!!!! lol
But that really started a trend in 90’s, bc 95 had large snow, so did 96 and 98 in southeastern ky
I was golfing in NJ in shorts 2 days before the storm
This swept through Atlanta during my 10th birthday party, which was a sleepover. I think my northern parents wrote it off as southerners blowing things out of proportion. They underestimated the power of this one for sure, and one of the dads had to take my friends home in his 4x4 Jeep. We kids had a great time with it though!
Was the last plane to leave in Hartford...to Aruba when we got back a week later had to dig the car out of parking lot at the airport
I live in southeast Tennessee. I was 6 when this happened and had never seen snow. My mom opened the back door to our mobile home (Which did not have steps. Just a good 4 foot drop to the ground.) I was running around and went straight out the door where I tripped and sunk face first into the 4 foot snow. 🤣 at the time I had never been more confused in my life.
I had my first Norwegian Elkhound at the time, she was nine years old.
Whenever we had thunderstorms she always went to the door and barked at the thunder 'til we let her out.
I opened the door for this storm, she stuck her nose out and looked up as if to say, "I don't have to go that bad" and she came back in and lay next to the gas logs on the hearth.
The winds and lightning in FL was insane that night
After all that snow, that was it for me. I haven't cared for snow since. It was like a blizzard. This storm system stretched from Canada to Cuba.
I'm in South Carolina and I remember when I got off work at 4pm that afternoon, it had been snowing about all day, I turned on the Weather Channel and watched in awe, It was snowing from the panhandle of Florida, all the way up the eastern seaboard to Maine, and all the way back to the Mississippi River. A full one third of the US was being was being affected all at the same time.
We were living in York, Pa north of Baltimore by about 45 mins. Baltimore was forcasted for 48-60 inches. York, Pa had a forcast of 24 inches. The storm shifted a little eastward. York got 48 inches, Baltimore 25. I remember it like yesterday. We shoveled for 3 days. York City had a Ban on all gas vehicles on the roads. Snowmobiles and ATVs is all that was allowed and could be seen downtown York. We had to tunnel out the rear of our house through the screen door, removing the screen and dumping the snow in the tub in our first floor bathroom. We had to wait for each tub full to melt before going back to digging a tunnel out to the alley. We had thunder lighting big-time. It was the worst I've seen in the 37 years I've been in PA. It took a week just to get streets cleared by the city.
I remember how warm the weather was in Atlanta up until Friday. It got pretty chilly overnight on Thursday, and it was really raw working outside Friday morning.
I still remember the Friday sunrise, the black sky with a bit of brownish color as the morning twilight began, then brightening to fire-engine red light reflecting from the clouds, then fading to the color of cooked salmon, then settling to a sullen nacreous gray.
There were periods of aspiratus clouds moving through, once in a while lightening to mackerel sky conditions.
Heavy rain began late Friday afternoon, and (wouldn't you know it) my clothes dryer died and I had to go to the coin laundry to have ANY dry clothes Saturday morning.
My car wouldn't drive into the wind due to poor traction (even with new Michelins), so I had to find an alternate route.
If I ever see such a storm again, I'll stay indoors and pull up another hound dog to keep warm.
I'd love to ask you some questions about that weekend. I grew up in Atlanta but I was just a kid then. Snow and this storm in particular is really fascinating to me...
I heard a saying "Red sky in the morning sailor take warning"and the sky definitely wasn't lying in that case.
@@amishadowbanned6264 there were several trees down even trying to get out of the neighborhood. at one point it was impossible to get through Peachtree Hills Avenue staying on the road. A few cars pulled into a driveway, drove across a lawn, and out the next driveway. the homeowners were understanding in the emergency, and when the weather cleared and warmed up, several of us helped repair the landscaping.
My Mom had called the fire department because the smoke detector buzzed. A firetruck was blocked by the aforementioned tree, and when I was driving home (this was before widespread cell phone addiction) I stopped and asked the firefighters' destination, got two with their turnout gear into my subcompact sedan, went to the house while the others worked to clear a path for the big rig.
When we got to the house, the firefighters did a thorough inspection and determined that the smoke was the result of dust smoldering in the heat exchanger of the old gravity-flow furnace.
I drove the gentlemen back to their rig, thanking them profusely.
As to the power outage, all I can say is it was suddenly silent. I still remember when the lights went out and there was the eerie cold snowstorm-gray light coming in through the dining room windows and going to the candle drawer. Before I could open it, the lights were back on, total of maybe twenty-five seconds outage total.
This was unusual for our street; when there is a widespread outage we are usually the last street in the state to have power restored.
@@amishadowbanned6264 I would, by the way, remind you that this is the thirtieth anniversary year of that storm.
One more comment, _POGO_ comic strip cartoonist Walt Kelly (1907-1974) created one of the principle characters, an alligator, as highly superstitious, and Albert's comment about the storm might have been, "Friday-Thirteen falls on a Saturday this month!"
The following weekend the weather had cleared and was, in fact, a glorious spring weekend.
It was the first time I ever rode the full distance in the Saint Patrick's Century bicycle ride in Dublin, GA.
Thanks for this review of the storm. I lived in Birmingham at that time and due to the power being off, i missed James Spann’s weather segment during the storm. He is well thought of around Alabama. His knowledge of every city, town, and road in Alabama and his meteorological knowledge is incredible.
Was born in ‘93 so first time seeing this but he seems familiar it’s strange or just know he definitely enjoyed that gig hah. 🤙
He had a large knowledge spann...
I was a little north of Buffalo for this lovely storm, i remember walking to the store after over just in awe what just happened.
As I recall, Buffalo got 6 feet of lake effect snow at the end of Oct. a few years ago.
Ya gotta be hardy to live up here! I’m north of the lake effect and all the roads in the county were closed by Sat. evening in anticipation of the “Storm of the Century.” We got a typical winter storm, nothing special to us.
I was stationed in Vicenza, Italy at the time. All the east coast airports were shut down while everything west of the Mississippi was backed up, meaning there was nowhere to clear US Customs. Soldiers and their families returning to the states from Italy, Germany, Spain, England, and Turkey were stranded for as long as 2 weeks before the last of them could get a flight.
A squall line of intense thunderstorms moved down Florida, causing widespread tornadoes. One of the worst outbreaks ever for Florida
1993- alabama had blizzard like condition of the storm of century
2011- alabama had the 2nd deadliest tornado outbreak in us history
My mom was about 5.5 months or so pregnant with me during this storm (I was born in late June of that very same year), but claims she doesn't remember it. My dad, however, has said that he recalls losing power for almost a week. However, we have all grown up in Upstate New York since we were born, so my mom probably thought of this as nothing more than a spring snow storm.
An amazing storm in WV. It wasn't the deepest accumulation ever for me, that award goes to the blizzard of 96. But the thunder, lightening and wind were unmatched. Would like to see another one. But this was probably a once in a lifetime storm.
Lived near Albany, NY during this storm. The average snowfall there was 60 or more inches.
In north central pa, the storm dropped our temps to 15 degrees and snowed a very fine dusty consistency, any crack or opening was filling, I know of ceilings that collapsed due to the attics filling, many caved in roofs, impossible to move snow, you could walk on top of it…24-30” near as we could measure, one remarkable thing was that the deer would normally be in small herds of 4-8 animals, but we had a yarding event where a massive collective effort to break trails amounted to 200 plus animals seen in a farm field…we dug for a week to free pathways, driveways, parking lots…I ran tractors, blowers and backhoes till I could not feel my legs..a huge dozer was required to break a road just up from us as the plow trucks could not move the mass…
I lived through this in Morganton, NC. Weather people talked about this storm coming Monday evening. Friday it hit. Started snowing at 7EST and stopped snowing at 7EST Saturday. Saw one thundersnow, no big deal. About 2.5 ft of snow. By Sunday it was quiet, nobody was out and about, complete quietness. Me being a Cajun from S. LA I had never seen that amount of snow in my life and I froked out. For the 30 years I lived in NC it snowed 3 times every year 23 years but been told it doesn't snow there anymore.
I remember the storm well. It covered my hometown in southwest ohio in solid ice. The sledding however. Was just, ill probably never see its like ever again.
I was born in it hattiesburg ms 3/13/93
I was 11 when this came through Alabama. We were without power for almost 2 weeks. My poor parents were stressed AF but we made the best of it. I built MASSIVE snow creatures. We had 1 gas wall heater in the living room. We cooked, slept, lived by it and put all our perishables in the snow outside to keep cold.
Insanity. I'll never forget it.
Btw. James Spann is STILL our meteorologist. He's a true life saver, basically a god to us 🤣🤣
Surely not, there being one tru God the Lord of Hosts Jesus
@@Element21VA Of course, but they're joking lol
@@kevinmcallister9089 there are things not to joke about, surely the one who died for our sins and Rose from the grave the 3rd day is one of them, remember he is our hope, our strength and refuge a very present help in the time of trouble.
It's no little thing he has done for us.
I lived in Avery County N C .at that time, in the highest part of the Eastern A there was over six feet of snow. I measured drifts after the storm abated and found drifts twelve to eighteen feet high. The roads were totally invisible and cars were unseen every where.
About normal, huh ?
It is now at this writing, August 31, 2022. I remember the Blizzard of 93 like it was yesterday. I went to work in the grocery store I was employed at the time. We closed down at noon on the 13th of March. Drove home, made hot chocolate ant enjoyed the storm. I did not lose power at all. 8 foot snow drifts buried my car and to the eves of the house. The lightning and associated thunder was the first I'd ever seen. Looking back, hurricane Opal in 1995, was much worse than the blizzard.
I believe down in here Florida we call it the “No Name Storm”. We just moved to Florida. I remember it was basically a hurricane type storm that came out of nowhere. Spawned a few tornados in my area and heavy flooding on the coast.
I have Never seen that much Snow in my life I'm a Georgia girl
We lost Power for a few days
It's definitely something I will Never Forget
Jesus. That Kevin Collins guy was a trooper standing out in that mess.
Was in Metuchen NJ, we were living in a condo development & no one had shovels. Gave my husband a broom & dust pan to dig out our cars! Never remember snow that late in the season.
I grew up just under an hour from Metuchen and still live in NJ. Unfortunately I don't remember this storm because I was turning 2 that year.
Looks like this type of storm is setting up again. HAPPY SNOW DAY!
It was snowing 5 inches per hour with thunder snows.
I was working at McDonald's on Derenne Avenue Savannah Georgia it's was snow showers in the area.
Man I wish there was a repeat of this storm. It is my all time favorite weather event. GOAT
bruh ppl died tho
@@aabrightlove I know.
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 that's kinda messed up man
@@aabrightlove Sorry what I meant was people died but if that storm would not have occurred there might have been more fatal traffic accidents. People always die from something.
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575....
Where I live in Nova Scotia it rained mostly before changing to snow about 14 inches. Moncton New Brunswick 151 cms or 5 feet 2 days the drifts were to the 3rd story. White Juan 2004 Nova Scotia broke many 24 hour records widespread. 3 feet halifax 2 weather obs recorded wind gusts of 91 mph. Yarmouth 106 cms over 3 feet. Ecum Secum 151 cms with 4 hours very thunder snow rates maxed around 8 inches per hour at almost sea level.
During White Juan there were flowers in the trees of Victoria, BC. I heard sailors talking about White Juan back in Halifax where I spent winters that did not have much in the way of snow. Halifax was dumping snow into the ocean after white Juan. Victoria had fields of daffodils.
That storm stretched from the Yucatan Peninsula off Mexico to north of Nova Scotia. It was a big storm.
I think Cape Breton had a few comparable storms this winter.
I live in East Tennesee I remember that storm very well its 1 our 3 that was just insane..please do avideo on THE BLIZZARD OF 95..& .ThiE biggest storm I remember was in 1st of April in 1987 ..22 inches over nite
We sure have come a long way with weather forecasting, radars and maps!
My youngest son was born that night lived in western pa in washington county dr asked us to come to the hospital cause we might not be able to get there the next day had him at 330 in morning went home at 530 am by noon 8 to 10 inches didnt get back to hospital till next day got 18 inches
I remember this one. I lived in S Florida at the time. But we got a horrible storm in the morning. Including a tornado 🌪️! Effected the whole east coast of the United States!
I live in NE pa and we got 3feet best snowstorm in my lifetime!!
It Repeats Itself ... this Time 👨✈️🇺🇸
Grew up in Shamokin, PA in 1993.
Nevada now
I’ll tell ya I’m in lake harmony last year we had a heck of a storm
It hit us overnight, by morning it was over. We were whipped by the tail of it, for 15 miles down the road there was just a dusting. (north upstate SC)
This seems similar to what is happening right now? Artic front pushing down with Gulfstream moisture pushing up into it at the southeast.
I’ll never forget this storm.. I was 8 in march a few months shy of being 9 and I remember waking up that Saturday morning and watching Saturday morning cartoons and I remember we were watching Garfield & friends and I was with my brother who has sinced passed away last year, RIP brother love & miss you.. but I remember it being early morning likely 7ish and it was dark and rainy out and the phone rang and it was my dads mom aka my grandma calling in to check on us from chapel hill NC & and I remember her, trying to explain to me what was going on trying to tell me she loves us and be careful and safe and that big storms going to hit us bc we lived on the OBX of NC and we were use to storms like hurricanes & nor’easters so at 8 years old I was like ok and didn’t understand bc at this point I’ve seen some tropical storms and weak hurricanes at this point in life.. so I got off the phone and told my brother what she said because my mom was still sleeping along with our baby sister who was 2 at that point and my dad was at work and our oldest brother well he was a stray cat he was in jail or out getting some stinky from a random woman and my oldest sister was still asleep as well.. but I’ll never forget that storm bc later that day especially in the evening to night it was one of the worse storms bc we didn’t get snow and probably a good thing but we got sone crazy rain and wind and the wind hit hard but the worse part was the sound side flooding and it flooded bad and the worse I’ve seen in my life.. it was over 10 feet bc I remember my friend who lived close to the sound lived in a trailer and a trailer is about a few feet off the ground and then inside his trailer I seen the water line it was 6 feet and that’s not counting the few feet that their trailer was off the ground so that’s why I say around 10 feet.. later in life I was talking to an older gentleman who was well known and respected in our little community ans a fisherman and he said he went down to the docks to check on the boats and his boat also and at this point he was probably 60 and he lived there all his life and said he never seen anything like it..
When he got down to the docks all the water in the harbor was gone and he could see nothing but boats sitting on land and he said to himself I need to get out of here now bc he knew that all that water was coming back at some point when the wind shift and he said as soon as he thought that and turned around to walk away he could hear a rumbling over the wind he said he knew what it was and started running home bc he lived like 3 mins away on foot and he said he didn’t get far before that water surged back and knocked him on his butt and he did make it home thankfully but as time went on the water got higher and it was so bad that people in that area where driving their boats around 😂 but yeah they storm is one to remember snd I’ll never ever forget about it and where I lived the water didn’t reach thankfully but the got to see the water and all bc my dad & me tried to get my brother was at my uncle’s and we had to turn around bc the water started to come into his truck
think about this in 1993 they got a forecast right almost 2 weeks out for snow today this is unheard of. you never hear a forecast be accurate more then 3 days out today.
Not here.
In our area ONE guy nailed it and all the rest were late to the game.
I suppose they were ahead of their time. Lol
We were trapped in a mtn cabin last winter because no one could figure out what the storm was gonna do until it started.
12" of snow
No power
No water
No heat
32 hrs of misery at 3000'
@@dwaynerobinson7629 In Atlanta one meteorologist was mentioning that an out-lier forecast model for two weeks out was suggesting that there might be snow near mid-March, slowly repeated runs of the model kept zeroing in on the correct forecast, but the weather the three or four days before the storm was so late-spring-like that nobody believed it would happen.
I live in Western NC... Cashier's to be exact. We received almost 30 inches and was without power for DAYS. I was only 13.
In charlotte we had a 69 mph wind gust that Saturday with HEAVY snow!!!!
My dad was 29 years old when this storm hit he lived in Albany, NY at the the time our family live in NY my mom and dad told me that there was like 3 to 5 feet of snow after the storm they said I wish we got this type of storm now just because it would be fun to play in the snow
I was 9. In WNC. It was epic. 2 plus weeks out of school.
Was in picayune ms at that time storm formed , sleet started changed to heavy wet snow 3 inches fell in about 2 hours . Temp was about 50 at 3 in afternoon dropped rapidly to about 33 at about 8 PM.
Mother nature is unstoppable
The winter of 1993- 1994 was far worse than this. In Eastern Pa. we started getting small storms in early November, 3-4 inches every Wednesday, until a blizzard in early January when we got a 18 to 23 inch snow, it continued until late March, snowing a few inches almost every Wednesday. the road crews in Bethlehem Pa. were unable to keep the streets clear and we were driving in ice ruts. This was the first time that I saw road crews using huge loaders ( from the local landfill) actually removing snow from the streets and haulin it away. That year I was able to drive my snowmobile locally from November '93 until the last week of March '94.This storm in spring of 1993 caused everyone in my locale to go out and buy a snow blower which we glad we had for the blizzard of 1996.
Still went to the St Patrick's day parade in Mtl. But snow was up to my head
I was in my 3rd year at FDU in North Jersey. I remember the small storm on St Paddy's day in 96, but I don't remember this one in 93.
2022 march 12 snowstorm this why I’m here
Was living near Boston at the time. Wasn't too bad there thought there was about 18" of wet snow that gave us a power outage most of the day
I think we got 36" 3 hours north in NH
Boy oh boy, the setup coming up next week on the 12th and 13th is pretty similar here to this
Only time i can remember 3 jet streams merging.
From what I read, At its height, the storm stretched from Canada to Honduras.
Remember it well had a week off of school here in easton pa. But that was a crazy winter had like a dozen snowstorms in my area
I saw 42” in the mountains of AZ once.
In Jacksonville Florida I woke up to a tornado shaking the house . It started snowing there were tornadoes in Jacksonville Hastings San Mateo George Town and sustained winds of 70 mph for hours Havnt seen anything like it since
I lived in Plainville Ny and I had a 6 foot drift across my large yard and over the road and it was deeper across the road going down the hill to the river.
Had to climb out my bathroom window in Tennessee.
I was 3 years old when this happened and live in southeast Virginia
It reached 13 below zero in Weston WV during this storm.
I got married in the middle of this storm.
This storm dumped 18 inches in a town just 20 miles north of Atlanta.
The IR satellite shot just says it all.
I wonder if this will ever happen again.
I guess you’re right. If it’s on Christmas I would not care. It’s not the only holiday that I have to cancel for this year
Well we are due for a another monster storm of the century. Well I don't know if we're going to get a another monster snow storm. Cause of globe warming ..
@Jaleal Williams it likely will
Yes
@@skywells3940 you called it
I love this storm! Praying for it to happen again in 2023, and beyond!
Check the deep south through next week...careful what you wish for 😅🤣🤗
Another one this year- trust me bro😛
This would have been so much better without a computerized voice narrating. Why didn’t you just do it yourself or get someone else to do it?
My town in NH got 36 inches.
Lived in tupelo ,tons of ice and snow
We got the heavy. Power out for 2 weeks.
I was born in NC the month prior
Mom talks about this all the time. I wasn’t born yet
My guy with the hair man. If you’ve lost that much just shave it off on top.
Well tomorrow we are under watches and warnings to me I think we can see another 93 event
Please show this video to Governor Kathy hogle she's calling Buffalo storm the worst in a century it wasn't but this one was and not only hit Buffalo New York but it hit the whole United States and Canada I remember the storm well I was 23 years old during the blizzard of 1993 I was sent home from work at at 1:00 p.m. because the roads were going to be closed at that time there was two feet of snow on the road at the time I only left a mile from work right in the city of Cortland the next morning I went outside of my house I was standing on the hood of my 1976 Chevy Impala and didn't even know it the only thing poking out of the ground from it with my antenna we'd gotten 5 ft of snow overnight with 60 mph winds
I am not. A robot.
1996 blizzard please
I remember this storm it was a bigun but was not the biggest snow I've seen. In far southwestern Virginia we had 2 to 3 feet! The April 1988 was the biggest ive seen we had 4 feet and it drifted to where no light came thru the windows on the back side of the house. Knowing what I know now which is our military wanting to own the weather by 2025. I wonder how much of this was manipulated. To think I wanted to be a meteorologist and be the idiot in the storm reporting. Unlike Mike sidell, anderson cooper, and all the other bought and paid for liars would never fake it. Turn the mainstream media off its mindcontrol propaganda. To those under their control I sound crazy and I wish I was but I didn't state any thing but facts!
Woah, I didn't know climate change emergencies happened in the 90s.
I was in in Niagara Falls, it was ugly
This storm caused weather forecasters to step up their game they got it so wrong
weather manipulated even thn lol
why is he wearing that stupid hat ???