1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 8, 4:11 AM MST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-081745- SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 AM MST THU FEB 8 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING EAST ACROSS ARIZONA MEANS SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS TODAY...ENDING IN SOUTHWEST ARIZONA BY THIS AFTERNOON. IT WILL BE MUCH COLDER TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH CLEARING FROM THE WEST TONIGHT. HIGHER PRESSURE ALOFT WILL RESULT IN SUNNY AND NOT QUITE AS COLD WEATHER FRIDAY. WEAKENING PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS WILL RESULT IN PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES THIS WEEKEND AND MONDAY. A PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BRING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .DISCUSSION... A COLD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS ARIZONA TODAY. AS OF EARLY THIS MORNING...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MOSTLY LIGHT SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA. HOWEVER...COLDER AIR HAD NOT MOVED IN ENOUGH TO SIGNIFICANTLY DROP SNOW LEVELS. INSTEAD...RAIN SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING AT THE 4500 FOOT ELEVATION IN EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA. HAVE DOWNGRADED THE HEAVY SNOW WARNING FOR ZONE 24 SOUTHERN GILA COUNTY/TONTO NATIONAL FOREST FOOTHILLS TO A SNOW ADVISORY ABOVE 3000 FEET FOR TODAY...AS ONLY ONE OR POSSIBLY TWO INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED. OTHERWISE...CONTINUING FORECAST OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA DESERT AREAS INCLUDING PHOENIX TODAY WITH SMALL AMOUNTS OF RAIN AND HIGHER ELEVATION SNOW EXPECTED. AS MENTIONED THIS IS A COLD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...SO EXPECT MUCH COLDER WEATHER TODAY WITH LESS WIND THAN YESTERDAY DUE TO A WEAKENING PRESSURE GRADIENT. OTHER THAN A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS IN SOUTHERN GILA COUNTY EARLY...CLEARING AND MUCH COLDER WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED TONIGHT AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES RAPIDLY EAST OUT OF ARIZONA. RELATIVELY HIGHER PRESSURE ALOFT FROM THE NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED TO SWING SOUTHEAST AND RESULT IN SUNNY AND NOT QUITE AS COLD WEATHER FRIDAY. LATEST INDICATIONS ARE THAT AT LEAST ONE SUBSEQUENT BUT WEAKENING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES THIS WEEKEND AND HAVE INDICATED PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES THROUGH MONDAY. A FOLLOWING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH ALONG THE WEST COAST THIS WEEKEND...THEN SWING INLAND AND RESULT IN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND COLDER WEATHER AGAIN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. ONCE AGAIN...A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ZONE 24 SOUTHERN GILA COUNTY/TONTO NATIONAL FOREST FOOTHILLS ABOVE 3000 FEET FOR TODAY. ELLIS
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow was falling at the rate of an inch per hour near Globe. Two to three inches covered the ground in parts of southern Gila County. Highway 60 east of Superior was closed for a short time due to snow and traffic accidents.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, February 2001
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: 5232987.