Winter Storm in Western Tucker, West Virginia

An Alberta clipper system moved from the upper Mississippi Valley through the lower Ohio Valley on December 29, spreading a wide swath of 2-4 inches of snow across the region. As the system passed, upslope snow into the mountains intensified as a single dominant lake effect snow band emerged off of Lake Erie and was directed at the mountains of southwest Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, and western Maryland. The heaviest snow fell in the late morning of December 30. Some selected totals are 11.1 inches at Canaan Heights, 12.3 inches at Davis, 11.0 inches at Canaan Valley, 9.0 inches in Rowlesburg, 10.8 inches in Parsons, and 8.0 inches in Terra Alta.