A strong upper-level disturbance shifted through the Great Lakes region in the afternoon of Friday January 7th. Cold air flowing over the relatively warm waters of Lake Michigan generated several rounds of heavy lake effect snow bands beginning on Friday the 7th and ending by the morning of Sunday the 9th. The bands generated snowfall rates of up to 4″ an hour with visibilities dropping to near zero under the heaviest bands. Areas in Berrien County, Michigan and La Porte and St. Joseph counties in Indiana were especially hard hit with many locations receiving 2 to 3 feet of snow by the time the event ended.
Below is a table highlighting some of the two day total snowfalls.
LOCATION | SNOW AMT |
South Bend Airport | 36.7 |
Mishawaka | 28.5 |
South Bend 4 SE | 28.1 |
Buchanan 1.4 ESE | 22.0 |
Niles 2.7 W | 19.0 |
Millburg | 17.0 |
Stevensville 1.7 SSE | 13.0 |
La Porte 1.2 E | 11.5 |
Granger 1.6 N | 11.1 |
Walkerton 5.7 ENE | 10.3 |
Goshen 1.9 NW | 8.6 |
Kingsbury WNW | 7.5 |
Kingsbury 1 N | 7.5 |
NWS Office – North Webster 2 N | 2.5 |
Warsaw 1.1 NNW | 1.5 |
Fort Wayne Airport | 1.1 |
Gas City 1 SW | 1.0 |
24 Hour Totals Jan. 8: Lake Effect Snow amounts |
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24 Hour Totals Jan 9: Lake Effect Snow amounts |
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Below is a high-resolution MODIS visible satellite view of Lake Michigan on Saturday January 8th. The band of lake effect snow showers is clearly visible across the entire span of Lake Michigan.
Below is the evolution of the mesoscale vortex was evident on McIDAS images of 15-minute interval GOES-13 0.65 µm visible channel data (below; click image to play animation). Also note the numerous long, narrow streaks of snow on the ground across parts of northern Illinois into northern Indiana, left behind from previous events.
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