For me personally, it is the one storm I can point to that sealed the deal as far as me wanting to become a meteorologist. The storm unofficially lead to 270 deaths, including 4 in the Mountain State, 3 in Maryland, and 49 in Pennsylvania. It is of course remembered locally for the incredible and widespread snow it dumped not just here but up and down the Appalachians and even into parts of the deep South.
Some of the more impressive snowfall totals from the storm include:
56 inches on Mount LeConte, TN
50 inches on Mount Mitchell, NC (14-foot drifts)
44 inches in Snowshoe, WV
36 inches in Latrobe, PA (10-foot drifts)
30 inches in Beckley, WV
29 inches in Page County, VA
25 inches in Pittsburgh, PA
20 inches in Chattanooga, TN
19 inches in Asheville, NC
17 inches near Birmingham, AL (6-foot drifts)
16 inches in Roanoke, VA
13 inches in Washington, DC
4 inches in Atlanta, GA
Locally, the storm is also remembered for record low temperatures including:
-10 degrees on Mount LeConte, TN
-5 degrees in Elkins, WV
1 degree in Pittsburgh, PA
2 degrees in Asheville, NC and Birmingham, AL
1 degree in Beckley, WV
18 degrees in Columbia, SC and Atlanta, GA
21 degrees in Mobile, AL
25 degrees in Savannah, GA and Pensacola, FL
31 degrees in Daytona Beach, FL
The storm also caused incredible damage up and down the East Coast with record low pressures and very high winds reported along its path. It is the 4th costliest storm in U.S. history causing more than $1.6 billion in damage. The storm affected over half of the states in the U.S., 26, and about 50% of the country's total population. The storm equated to a Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, used to rate hurricanes, due to the storm surge at the coast and the minimum pressure of it.
Below are some of the headlines in the Barbour Democrat in the days following the storm (thanks to viewer Mikia Gould of Philippi for these):
A complete review of this storm from the National Climactic Data Center can be found here: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/techrpts/tr9301/tr9301.pdf
The National Weather Service in Wilmington, NC put together a nice review of the storm too, including archived video of live coverage of the storm from The Weather Channel: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ilm/archive/Superstorm93/
Here are some additional reports put together by various groups:
NWS Tallahassee, Fla.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/
NWS Tampa Bay Area, Fla.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/
NWS Melbourne, Fla.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/?n=march1993
NWS Birmingham, Ala.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/
NWS Huntsville, Ala.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/
NWS Jackson, Ky.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/
NWS Natural Disaster Survey Report on Superstorm of March 1993
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
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