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Early March, 1993. Many across the United States were preparing for the Spring Season, as March marks the transition from meteorological winter into spring. People were wishing for the warmer temperatures, the flowers to come to bloom, and the springtime sports to come faster. However, despite these wishes that many people had across the Eastern part of the country, Mother Nature had other plans.
In Mid-March of 1993, a powerful nor’easter brought its wrath to the eastern United States in the form of a strong serial derecho in central and southern Florida, and the most remembered part of the system, one of the worst blizzards to hit the eastern United States. Snowfall totals ranging from 4-10 inches across Alabama, with a long line of snowfall totals ranging from 10-20 inches of snow from Northern Alabama and Georgia throughout the majority of the eastern part of the country, to extreme snowfall totals of over 20 inches across large swaths of the Appalachian mountains, the Ohio River Valley, The Northeast, and New England. Its effects were widespread, from high storm surge in Florida, to the snow, the extreme cold behind the system, and the strong winds. Nearly every state in its path was caught off guard, closing numerous interstates from Atlanta through the Northeast. Each area in its path has its own story to tell regarding what happened before, during, and after one of the most powerful storm complexes to ever rock the country in recent memory. So today, I’m going to take a deep dive into the 1993 Storm of the Century, going over the synopsis of the storm complex, the preparations taken, what happened during the storm itself across the various areas that were significantly affected, the aftermath, the lessons learned, and the significance of the event. Welcome to Nature’s Fury.
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Yaaay! The long awaited Storm of the Century vid! Awesome job as always & thank you for having me on! It was a pleasure to have the chance to give you a first hand account of the storm!
You should do a video on the ice monster in 2008. I was in NH when it happened, we lost power for 18 days and some people were unable to escape their street because of the amount of tree/power lines that were knocked down and couldn't drive. Then it dumped snowed afterwards making things worse. If this is interesting to I'd love to tell you more
Weatherbox just did this storm too 🙂
First of all, wild hearing someone pronounce the city/county of Mobile's name correctly (light-heartedly, of course, I know most folks see it and think it's pronounced like you would mobile phone). Second, this is the most snow that the city has seen since. I was born years after the storm, but everything gets shut down now if we hear of snow coming (that might be partially due to the fact that people here can barely drive under normal conditions 🤦🏼♀️). A fascinating topic to be sure!
Thanks for making a vid on the Blizzard of 93!
My mother remembers living through this storm in Upstate NY, (Binghamton). Interesting to see much more in depth documentaries coming out about it. This set snow records in Binghamton, only broken by the December 2020 Nor’easter. I’d love to see some breakdown of that, as well. We got over 40 inches in one night.
I was born just after it so I have only herd about it and only it was as bad as it's name implaies… Now I know the whole story thanks! Which what happened in this storm to Florida is what happens if we don't prepair for a hurricane… So let's, let this never happen again.
New drinking game – take a shot every time Alferia says, "Storm of the Century"!
I was a kid when this happened and this storm is one of my earliest memories. I was 5 years old and I remember when we opened the door and the snowdrifts were taller then me and we dug out and I remember playing with my childhood dog in the snow. It was a very profound memory for me.
I was a child living in north Florida. Only time I remember ever seeing snow flakes in Florida. It was brief, but enough to make a lasting memory.
Super interesting point on the volcano. Had never occurred to me that volcanic eruptions could affect the weather so far away. Learned something new! Great video!
I remember this storm! I was just a child back then and all of NYC was blanketed in snow. It was terrifying! I remember trudging through the snow with my mother trying to get to my grandparents home. The snow was so much that it was waist deep. It was insane, especially since the winds was wild
Nicely covered. Well done.
I remember this storm. Was 6 years old when it hit here in WV and my mom had just given birth to my brother. She was released from the hospital maybe just a few days prior to it hitting. She was panicking that the power would go out.
We lived behind my elementary school on a hillside (I was so close to the school that the edge of my yard was level with the school’s roof — we took ladders and crawled over onto it). The bank was usually covered in briars, but due to the snow, we were able to sled down it and go straight to the playground. I still have the VHS tape of that storm somewhere here with dad recording the measurements every few hours (almost 20” on the last recording with more coming … even on VHS quality, the scenery is still one of the most beautiful things I had seen as a kid with the silence — no birds, no vehicles, just quietness and so much snow weighing down trees).
Got us out of school for several days. Was the best thing ever in a 6 year old’s mind, but now that I am older, I hope to never see snow storms like that again (Sandy came too close with the amounts she dumped on us).
It’s the one snowstorm everyone still talks about anytime here someone says “oh thank goodness warmer weather is coming in for March” because someone always brings up 1993 lol.
I remember this storm. We had 3 plus feet of snow in Virginia, my family in West Virginia had 4 to 5 ft. Can absolutely confirm the snow piles were around through mid April if not later
We all wondered if they'd ever melt.
I remember this happened when I was 6 and lived in NJ. The snow was so deep in my yard that it was up to my waist!
So, to combat global warming and keep my 454 big block ICE, all we need to do is dump a 💩ton of Sulfur dioxide in the air? Cool.
Have you ever considered making YouTube shorts explaining what certain weather terms mean? Something like “an eye wall replacement cycle is _______, examples are hurricanes such as _______, hear more about those in my videos about them!” Could work well and help grow the channel. As someone who’s watched a few of you videos now, I sort of understand what some of those are, but clarifying exactly what things like “storm surge” is might help make these videos even more understandable.
I was 2 when this happened…I’ll have to ask my dad about it
you could do the great ice storm of '98
Can you do a video of the 2011 snow storm that hit alabama also I believe it was 2011 it's around then but it's deemed snowpocalypse
oh wow an upload less than 24 hours after the algorithm sent me your way, lucky me!
This makes me wonder about my family I have some who live up north in NJ and they were there in 93 so I wonder how they fared I know they are still alive today but I never have asked them about this storm. I wonder how they felt I know how they probably acted seeing how my dad acted during our snow storm since he did live in NJ when he was a kid but that's just a guess. If I had actual open communication with that family I would ask them
Far northwest GA here. I was a mindless kid when this happened. We were riding bike in shorts and thirst the day before. We got close to 2’ of snow. The wind was terrible we had 2 linemen killed in our area trying to restore power. Blizzard I’ll never forget.
Bro your videos are awesome I watched them pretty much as soon as they come out You are 100% doing something right I don't know how this channel Isn't more popular so I think YouTube is doing something 100% wrong
Do the August 10 2020 Iowa Derecho most expensive thunderstorm in history
I was 15 when this happened here in Central Wisconsin, it brought insane cold that lasted for days..
I didn’t form many memories when I was a kid but this storm really stuck with me. My family slept in the living room because we have an in floor furnace. We had literal oil lamps because we had no power. My sister and her son ended up staying with us till they got power back. It was fortunate that we have a gas stove so we were able to cook. I live in West Virginia btw.
I was just 3 at the time. My mom piled me and my sisters into the living room on the couch near the wood stove. She kept every blanket and towel we owned either wrapped around us or tacked up on the walls and windows.
I'm really interested in how the climatic impacts of volcanic eruptions affect human history. It's gonna be really interesting to see what the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption will do to the weather in the longer term. The eruption was rated VEI 5-6 (for comparison, the Pinatubo eruption was VEI 6). Another really well known volcanic eruption that had similar impacts is the 1815 Tambora eruption, which resulted in 1816 being "the year without a summer" in Europe and North America.
My mom and her mother with her sister was stuck in the blizzard in Pittsburgh in the house, it was a old three tier house 50s style and the storm absolutely wiped the city of Pittsburgh off the face of the world. Everything was shut down nobody had water or food in the main city and anything that needed to be cooked was essentially unusable and the snow covered everything and damage was high. The civic arena took on many people that needed shelter. Pittsburgh had no idea what was happening neither did my mother. Somebody I talked to that went to pitt campus in 1993 as a junior said that the campus was entirely white and dorms where stacked with kids sheltering together. This storm is historic on many levels for us here in Pittsburgh thanks for covering it.
This storm was my first memory of weather (and one of my first memories in general). My mom and I were going to my grandparents house, but we stopped at a food store first. I remember being in the parking lot and it was raining sideways, my mom told me it was a nor'easter and I thought it had something to do with Easter.
March 12 is my birthday! XD I remember that year I got the stomach flu, my first period (TMI), and 6ft of snow. -257/10 do not rec. I lived near Hershey, PA at the time.
A couple things I remember about the storm:
– School was closed for almost two weeks and we had to go to class into June to make up for it and everyone hated it.
– Our back porch nearly collapsed. The snowdrifts were level with its roof (about 8ft) and my dad climbed up on a ladder to shovel snow off of it. He then climbed up on the house roof because we had skylights and he was afraid the glass would crack if he didn't shovel the snow off.
– 1991 had also been a year of significant snow. We got like 3ft at once at one point, and this was what motivated dad to buy a newfangled snowblower. We killed two aluminum snow shovels during that storm, but we've still got that old snowblower. XD
– We had a woods behind our house and the trees were so laden with ice that several LARGE branches fell into our yard.
– I suspect the Blizzard of '93 is responsible for the trend of bricked-in mailboxes. Due to the enormous snow drifts, everyone's mailbox was utterly lost. Many were bulldozed and pulverized by snowplows. A lot of people bought cheap aluminum or plastic ones and mounted them on wooden stakes and just stuck them in the snow drifts until they melted. After that I started seeing a lot of mailboxes built into brick or stone pediments. The trend died off about 15yrs later.
– A funny thing: my sister and I usually got sleds for Christmas, but there was rarely enough snow to justify using them. 1993 we got bicycles. XD
My mom made front page during the blizzard 😂 We were stuck on a hill in her car 😂 and they used it as an example of the ice 😂
That winter of 1993 was just ridiculously cold & snowy. My grandma, who would have been 82 at the time, said she'd rarely seen such a miserable cold winter. That January, our area set a low temp record.
The storm was fun! I was too young & too beer drunk to care. Yee hawing down the road in the blizzard, could not see where the road was, but I wasn't driving & I felt cozy.
Plus, two extra days off work, and Church was excused that Sunday morning. Just a free, young, fun weekend, back in the days when I could fully enjoy those events.
I was only two years old when this happened.
Can you cover the great flood of 93? The one that the Mississippi flooded and literally devastated St Louis and other parts of the Midwest? Something interesting about that about that flood is that there's a man in prison today for causing that flood but he didn't cause it. Insurance doesn't cover things like that and was not going to cover any of the damages or profits lost from this blood but since the court convicted him of it insurance company's been covered all the damages and loss of profits because it was no longer natural disaster it was a catastrophe caused by vandalism. If you decide to cover this would make sure you find the footage from I think it was channel 5 in St Louis of the floodwaters just in washing away in entire farmhouse in one piece.
Its kind of wild how you and WeatherBox put out a video on the same topic a day apart. Both are excellent videos though!
Hay can you do a doc on smithville Mississippi 2011? It’s a EF5 compared to Joplin, El Reno and other monsters and it’s never been talked about really. I lived close to smithville my entire life and never even heard about 2011 smithville tornado
I Must admit one of the things that made this bad as it was happening was BECUASE of thunder snow. And I think you should’ve gave said somthing like that
Ol Joe denardo broadcast for like 3 days straight hell of a guy.