GREENVILLE…SIDNEY…BELLEFONTAINE…MARYSVILLE…DELAWARE… OWENTON…WILLIAMSTOWN…KENTON…CELINA…WAPAKONETA… INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…RICHMOND…CONNERSVILLE…LIBERTY…īROOKVILLE…VERSAILLES…LAWRENCEBURG…RISING SUN…VEVAY…ĬARROLLTON…WARSAW…BURLINGTON…INDEPENDENCE…ALEXANDRIA… GREENE-FAYETTE OH-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-HAMILTON-CLERMONT. HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-ĬHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY. SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT. WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO. The Watch called for 5″-10″ northwest of I-71, with lesser amounts along 71 due to a predicted changeover to sleet and freezing rain and far less just to the south and east. So right up to 24-36 hours before the event began, most forecasters were calling for 6″ maximum north and west of the I-71 corridor with a mix along the corridor and mostly rain to the south and east.Īt 4AM on March 6th, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for parts of Ohio, including Central Ohio. The winter of 2007-08 had brought several storm busts, and none of them seemed ready to buy into another one. Four days before the storm, neither the NWS nor the television forecasters were calling for a significant event. Local forecasters, however, weren’t buying it… at least not at first. Simply put, the track and conditions were being forecast to be perfect for a significant Ohio snowstorm. Because the storm was originating near the Gulf of Mexico, models were showing the storm pulling vast amounts of moisture north into cold air over the Ohio Valley. The track waffled for days, but never strayed far from the Appalachian track.
Initially, models took the storm up the East Coast, but as the storm neared, models moved it further and further west and settled upon a track just west/just along the spine of the Appalachians. More than one week prior to the Blizzard of 2008, models had been hinting at a significant storm somewhere in the eastern US. The March, 2008 Columbus snowstorm was a historic and memorable event that will likely not be surpassed for a very long time, if ever.
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