March 15-17, 1843

March 15-16, 1843 Estimated Snow Totals

Overview

From the Nashville Tennessean, March 29, 1843:

"This storm is worthy of investigation. It commenced in Nashville a short time before day on the morning of the 15th, and continued with little intermission until the morning of the 16th, but not with equal violence to that of the 7th January, in which there fell a greater quantity of snow in half the time. Its greater extent, however, makes it of more importance, as furnishing facts bearing upon the question of the law of storms. This storm seems to have extended from New Orleans to New York at least - this, as yet being the extent of our information - probably, from Texas to Lower Canada and New Brunswick. Its extent to the northwest, so far as our information extends, was limited. At St. Louis there was but little snow - at the mouth of the Cumberland, there was less. While on the lower Mississippi, and in fact as far to the southwest, south, and southeast as we have yet had information it was a great storm, falling in some places to the depth of 16 and 18 inches."

March 15-17, 1843 Snowfall Totals
Snow Total	City	State
18-20"	New York City	New York
12-15"	Baltimore	Maryland
12-15"	Washington	D.C.
12-15"	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
15"	Shelbyville	Tennessee
14"	McMinnville	Tennessee
12"	Nashville	Tennessee
12"	Hartford	Connecticut
10"	Memphis	Tennessee
7.5"	Augusta	Georgia
6-8"	Columbus	Mississippi
6"	Yazoo City	Mississippi
5"	Louisville	Mississippi
3-4"	Clarksville	Tennessee
3"	Greensboro	North Carolina
2-3"	Natchez	Mississippi
T	Charleston	South Carolina
T	New Orleans	Louisiana