JET, Okla. — Tuesday was no joke, with cold and windy conditions like being on the tundra in the furthest part of the northern hemisphere. But it wasn’t the Arctic or Alaskan terrain, but ...

But on March 27, 2009, 16 years ago today, a textbook spring blizzard hammered parts of the Great Plains from Colorado and New Mexico to the Texas Panhandle, western and northern Oklahoma and Kansas.