Winter Storm, Pocahontas
- When
- December 13, 6:30 PM EST to December 14, 5:00 AM EST
- Where
- Pocahontas forecast zone
- Reported by
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Winter Storm in West Virginia, December 13 to 14, 2000
Sleet fell during Wednesday evening, changing to freezing rain after midnight. A quarter inch of ice accumulated during the latenight hours.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 RLX wrote it up.
Sleet fell during Wednesday evening, changing to freezing rain after midnight. A quarter inch of ice accumulated during the latenight hours.
Event by event
1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Winter Storm
- A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Illinois, December 13, 2000
- Ice Storm in Louisiana, December 13, 2000
- Winter Storm in Ohio, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Winter Storm in Arkansas, December 13, 2000
- Ice Storm in Texas, December 13, 2000
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Winter Storm in Tennessee, December 13, 2000
- Winter Storm in Arkansas, December 13, 2000
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Oklahoma, December 13, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, December 13 to 14, 2000
- Ice Storm in Kentucky, December 13, 2000
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, December 2000
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: 5162395.