need help identifying date of a snowstorm (Raleigh, Cameron: storage, estimate)

[socrates]

does anybody remember the nc snowstorm where the triangle didn't get any precip at all and snow fell on the east and west sides of the triangle. i need the date that happened. (it may have happened a few times)

when you looked at the accumulation map you could see decreasing totals as you got closer to teh triangle on either side. like

mountains 3-6 1-3 trace nothing in triangle trace 1-3 3-6 coast

i know its going to be hard for people to remember a time we didn't actually get snow since that seems to be the norm but im hoping maybe it was somebodys birthday or something that would make you remember it.

[SunnyKayak]

Originally Posted by socrates

does anybody remember the nc snowstorm where the triangle didn't get any precip at all and snow fell on the east and west sides of the triangle. i need the date that happened. (it may have happened a few times)

when you looked at the accumulation map you could see decreasing totals as you got closer to teh triangle on either side. like

mountains 3-6 1-3 trace nothing in triangle trace 1-3 3-6 coast

i know its going to be hard for people to remember a time we didn't actually get snow since that seems to be the norm but im hoping maybe it was somebodys birthday or something that would make you remember it.

maybe this will help Raleigh SnowStorm Study (http://raleighwx.easternuswx.com/raleigh.html - broken link)

[socrates]

well see the biggest problem i face is that no snow fell at raleigh so it woulnd't be in anyhting like that. If I could find a similar list like that but for a city down east or northern coast then I could look at each one and figure it out.

[Beffrey2]

Originally Posted by socrates

does anybody remember the nc snowstorm where the triangle didn't get any precip at all and snow fell on the east and west sides of the triangle. i need the date that happened. (it may have happened a few times)

when you looked at the accumulation map you could see decreasing totals as you got closer to teh triangle on either side. like

mountains 3-6 1-3 trace nothing in triangle trace 1-3 3-6 coast

i know its going to be hard for people to remember a time we didn't actually get snow since that seems to be the norm but im hoping maybe it was somebodys birthday or something that would make you remember it.

We need more info than that. Like maybe an estimate of the time period? Year?

How big was the snow storm for the coastal plain and west of Raleigh?

I know of many storms where the coastal plain got a foot of snow....and Raleigh nothing. But areas west of Raleigh got nothing either.

[toot68]

I remember what you were talking about...one year a noreaster came ashore and hit a cold front coming out of the mountains, and dumped a foot or better of completely unexpected snow on durham. Then the next year the same type of scenario set up with a big cold front and a noreaster approaching from opposite directions again, and all the weather folks went nuts.

I'm pretty sure the unexpected snow was in January 1996 (I remember it well, because there was a Duke-GTech game that day...national television, maybe 500 people showed up, they were letting anyone in who made it to Cameron, no tickets required), so I'm guessing the storms you were talking about was a year or two later.

[socrates]

This was sometime between I know this was after 2000. maybe 2003 2004 or 2005? I don't remember anymore details but basically i'm doing a case study of the situation when a storm comes from the south fizzles due to cold air in place and reforms right off the coast of the outerbanks. Its a common phenomenon seems to happen almost every year(blocking from cold air damming) but I'm just looking for this most drastic case.

[jaybee18]

Perhaps this is the event you are referring to?

January 23, 2003 Winter Storm