Winter Storm, Northern Greenlee
- When
- January 15, 3:45 AM MST to January 16, 3:45 PM MST
- Where
- Northern Greenlee forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Winter Storm in Arizona, January 15 to 16, 2001
Hanagan Meadow reported 12 inches of snow.
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 TWC wrote it up.
Hanagan Meadow reported 12 inches of snow.
What forecasters said that day
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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 15, 2:35 AM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 2:35 AM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECT FOR DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 235 AM MST MON JAN 15 2001 SYNOPSIS...THE COLDEST STORM TO VISIT THE AREA IN SEVERAL YEARS WILL DROP INTO ARIZONA BY TUESDAY MORNING BEFORE STALLING. MOISTURE WITH THIS SYSTEM STILL LOOKS LIMITED...BUT WITH SUCH COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT...IT WILL BECOME UNSETTLED WITH SNOW LEVELS REACHING DESERT FLOORS AT TIMES. TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO BE AS MUCH AS 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. A MODERATING TREND WILL BEGIN NEXT WEEKEND. DISCUSSION...LATEST MODELS WERE STILL ADVERTISING A COLD STORM SYSTEM SETTLING OVER ARIZONA BY TUESDAY MORNING AND HANGING AROUND UNTIL LATE THURSDAY. THERE STILL DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A LOT OF MOISTURE WITH THIS SYSTEM...BUT WITH STRONG UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION AND COLD AIR ALOFT IT SHOULD NOT TAKE TOO MUCH TO SQUEEZE OUT SOME PRECIP. RIGHT NOW...QPF AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE TOO LIGHT TO WARRANT ANY TYPE OF ADVISORY OR WARNING. THUS...WILL HIGHLIGHT THE UPCOMING UNSETTLED WEATHER IN A SPECIAL STATEMENT. OTHERWISE... TIMING OF PRECIP WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT WITH THIS TYPE OF SYSTEM WHICH IS FORECAST TO POSITION ITSELF OVER THE REGION UNTIL LATE THURSDAY. LATEST MODELS DO POINT TO TONIGHT BEING THE BEST CHANCE FOR A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW. THIS TIMING OF PRECIP WILL LIKELY COINCIDE WITH VERY LOW SNOW LEVELS...DOWN TO AROUND 2000 TO 2500 FEET TONIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING. AFTER TONIGHT...THE CURRENT BROAD BRUSHING OF THE FORECAST LOOKS LIKE THE WAY TO GO. WILL LIKELY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE BETTER PRECIP TIMING LATER ON. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS STILL HAVE THE SYSTEM EXITING THE REGION AROUND LATE THURSDAY WITH A MODERATING TREND FRIDAY INTO SUNDAY. .TWC...NONE.
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 Colorado, January 15 to 16, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, January 15 to 20, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Maine, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Winter Storm in Arizona, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Winter Weather in New Jersey, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Winter Storm in Arizona, January 15 to 16, 2001
- Winter Storm in Arizona, January 15 to 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Arizona in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, January 2001
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: 5228014.