It was one of the top ten weather stories for Alabama in the 20th Century. It shattered all previous records for snowfall for much of the state. It was known by many names, such as "Winter Storm '93," "The Storm of the Century," and "The 1993 Superstorm." The first signs of "trouble" began to appear on computer weather models about 5 days before the big storm developed, when those models indicated the potential for a big winter storm along the East Coast. Forecasters had seen several similar predictions from the computer models earlier that winter that didn't quite pan out.

Source: National Weather Service