In march 1993 the storm of the century struck the us east coast claiming more than 270 lives and causing billions of dollars in damage on this day the 1993 storm of the century news national centers for environmental information ncei. The volume of water dropped by the storm was immense 44000000 acre feet enough water to flood 44 million acres of land one foot deep the volume of snow dropped by the superstorm was computed at just under 13 cubic miles local newspaper reports here are some local stories about the superstorm of 1993 from the wilmington star news. The 1993 storm of the century also known as the 93 superstorm the no name storm or the great blizzard of 93 1993 was a large cyclonic storm that formed over the gulf of mexico on march 12 1993 the storm was unique and notable for its intensity massive size and wide reaching effects at its height the storm stretched from canada to honduras. The blizzard of march 12 to 14 1993 remains one of the worst us snowstorms since the great blizzard of 1888 and its no surprise considering that the storm stretched from cuba to nova scotia canada affected 100 million people across 26 states and caused 665 billion in damage