Winter Storm — Clare, Michigan

2011-02-20 to 2011-02-21 · Clare, Michigan

Event narrative

Six to eight inches of snow fell across the county. Snowfall rates of one-half to one inch per hour occurred occasionally throughout the storm.

Wider weather episode

A storm brought heavy wet snow from Holland to Lansing and points north during the afternoon and evening hours of Sunday, February 20th. South of those areas up to three quarters of an inch of freezing rain. There were numerous accidents including a sixty car pile-up on Route 131 near Big Rapids. More than one-hundred thousand people lost power along the Interstate 94 corridor where the freezing rain was the most severe. The storm responsible for the snow and ice was located over eastern South Dakota Sunday morning. The storm center then tracked east moving along the Michigan and Indiana border Sunday night before redeveloping off the Mid-Atlantic Coast on Monday.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 280198. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.