The Dexes / Winter Storm, Blizzard & Heavy Snow / 5650375
Eventdex · Winter Storm, Blizzard & Heavy Snow
BERRIEN
5650375
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| Event typeevent_type | Winter Storm |
|---|---|
| NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id | 5,650,375 |
| Episode IDepisode_id | 2,078,636 |
| Begin UTCbegin_utc | 1998-01-07T22:00:00+00:00 |
| End UTCend_utc | 1998-01-08T21:00:00+00:00 |
| Statestate | MICHIGAN |
| County/zone typecz_type | Z |
| County/zone namecz_name | BERRIEN |
| Deaths directdeaths_direct | 0 |
| Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect | 0 |
| Injuries directinjuries_direct | 0 |
| Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect | 0 |
| Episode narrativeepisode_narrative | A winter storm which tracked from the Gulf coast of Louisiana north across the Ohio River Valley region, then north across Michigan's Lower Peninsula, produced a wintry mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the mentioned counties. Freezing rain first spread across the Holland, Grand Rapids, Ionia, and Lansing areas during the evening hours of Wednesday, January 7th, then expanded south to the Interstate-94 corridor as temperatures fell below freezing later that night. As colder air aloft moved south, freezing rain and sleet changed to snow from Berrien, Van Buren, Barry, Eaton and Ingham counties northward, resulting in storm total accumulations of around an inch in Berrien, Eaton, and Ingham counties and 2 to 6 inches elsewhere in the mentioned counties (with the exception of Cass County, where most problems were a result of freezing rain accumulation). Areas hardest hit by the sleet and freezing rain Wednesday night and Thursday morning, January 7th and 8th respectively, included Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham, and Kalamazoo counties. Ice accumulated up to one-quarter of an inch in these areas. Trees and power lines were downed under the weight of the glaze. Up to 4,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm. Icy roads were the cause of several serious accidents. Four fatalities were blamed on weather-related accidents. A 73 year-old male and 54 year-old female were killed in a collision which occurred near the intersection of Michigan Highway 57 and McClelland Road in Gratiot County at 12:25 PM EST on Thursday, January 8th. One other male suffered serious injuries in the same accident. In Calhoun County, a 55 year-old male Indiana truck driver was killed on Interstate-69 just south of Marshall and a 72 year-old male was killed on Michigan Highway 66 when his car was struck by an oncoming vehicle while he was pulling out of his driveway in Athens. Numerous minor accidents were reported during the Thursday morning rush hour across the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and also in Hastings in Barry County. Snowfall reports from the storm included 5-6 inches across Ottawa, Allegan, and Mason Counties, 4.3 inches in Muskegon, 3.7 inches in Grand Rapids, 3.5 inches in Sparta and Vestaburg, 2.8 inches in Big Rapids, around 2.5 inches in Lansing and Hastings, and around 2 inches in St. Johns and Ionia. |
| Yearyear | 1,998 |
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