Two years ago today: Mayfield tornado outbreak
back on 12/10/1995, an arctic cold front came through the Great Lakes, along with this mini-polar vortex at 500mb leading the way. The combination of synoptic/lake effect snow events gave Sault Ste Marie 56.5" of snow and the snow depth jumped up by 31". Near Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, over 30" of snow happened. As you can see on here, the 850mb temp dropped to -20C with 40 knot winds at Buffalo.