It also left 12.6 inches of snow in Madison, Wisconsin, in a single day. Other towns had snow records, too, since the storm had heavy snow and high winds. It was a very big and very strong storm. Besides making a lot of snow, this storm produced ten tornadoes in the southern United States. 19 January 1995 Prepared by Jonathon Martin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison This figure shows the total snowfall in centimeters for the 19 Jan 1995 storm.
Lines connect all points reporting the same snowfall amounts in centimeters.
Bands of 10 cm snow depth are indicated with the shading code shown in the table. This storm began in much the same way that many storms begin. A cold front ran from Canada down to Texas. The winds near the cold front over Texas began blowing in a counterclockwise pattern. A warm front was found on the East Coast of the United States.