Heavy Snow, Bath
- When
- February 3, 9:00 PM EST to February 4, 7:00 AM EST
- Where
- Bath forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 38.059, -79.741 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Virginia, February 3 to 4, 1998
Rain changed to heavy wet snow during the evening hours on the 3rd in Bath County and the northern portion of Rockbridge County. Around dawn on the the 4th, the heavy snow mixed with and changed back to rain.
Where it happened
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- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS RNK wrote it up.
Rain changed to heavy wet snow during the evening hours on the 3rd in Bath County and the northern portion of Rockbridge County. Around dawn on the the 4th, the heavy snow mixed with and changed back to rain. Snowfall accumulations were mainly from 4 to 8 inches in most of Bath County and in the northern portion of Rockbridge County. In the extreme northern portion of Rockbridge County, the snow was up to a foot deep and wind blown snow drifts were as high as four or five feet. During the heavy snow, hazardous road conditions resulted in numerous traffic accidents.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Rockbridge
- When
- February 3, 9:00 PM EST to February 4, 7:00 AM EST
- Where
- Rockbridge forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 37.774, -79.418 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, February 3 to 6, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, February 3 to 6, 1998
- Heavy Rain in West Virginia, February 3 to 4, 1998
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, February 3, 1998
- Flood in California, February 3 to 21, 1998
- Winter Storm in West Virginia, February 3 to 6, 1998
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, February 3 to 6, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Tennessee, February 3 to 4, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, February 3 to 6, 1998
- Flood in California, February 3, 1998
- High Wind in Nevada, February 3, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Snow in North Carolina, February 3 to 4, 1998
More
Every storm in Virginia in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, February 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5635203, 5635204.