Heavy Snow, Inland Sussex
- When
- January 5, 11:00 AM EST to 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Inland Sussex forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.683, -75.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Delaware, January 5, 2001
Two bands of light snow, one with a low pressure system's warm front and the second with its cold front moved through Delaware during the late morning and the afternoon of the 5th. Accumulations in New Castle County averaged two inches and were around an inch or less elsewhere in the state.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 PHI wrote it up.
Two bands of light snow, one with a low pressure system's warm front and the second with its cold front moved through Delaware during the late morning and the afternoon of the 5th. Accumulations in New Castle County averaged two inches and were around an inch or less elsewhere in the state. High temperatures in Kent and New Castle Counties were generally below freezing. The light snow caused slippery travel conditions on untreated roadways.
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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 5, 9:30 AM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 9:30 AM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY, NJ 930 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2001 WILL UPDATE TO ADD SLIGHT ACCUMULATIONS TO SOUTHERN ZONES BASED ON CURRENT 88D AND SAT PIX. WILL SPRUCEp UP WORDING ALL ZONES AT SAME TIME. .PHI...NONE. ZEV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 5, 10:00 AM EST, 1 hour before
DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-012>026-PAZ054-055- 060>062-067>071-052300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY, NJ 1000 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2001 ...ONE TO THREE INCHES OF SNOW THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF PHILADELPHIA... A WEATHER SYSTEM DROPPING IN FROM THE WEST TODAY IS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW OVER NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY AND THE POCONOS IN PENNSYLVANIA...AN INCH OR TWO IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...AND UP TO AN INCH IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...DELAWARE AND NORTHEAST MARYLAND. IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN SUBURBS OF PHILADELPHIA...UP TO TWO INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL. IN PHILADELPHIA PROPER AND THE NEARBY SUBURBS TO THE EAST...ALONG WITH NORTHERN DELAWARE AND EXTREME NORTHEAST MARYLAND...ACCUMULATIONS COULD BE AROUND AN INCH. AREAS FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST SHOULD SEE SLIGHTLY LESSER ACCUMULATIONS AS TEMPERATURES RISE INTO THE MID AND UPPER 30S...AND THE SNOW POSSIBLY MIXES WITH RAIN. SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY EARLY AFTERNOON...OCCASIONALLY BECOMING MODERATE IN INTENSITY WITH SNOWFALL RATES OF UP TO 1/2 INCH PER HOUR DROPPING VISIBILITIES BELOW A MILE. DURING THE EVENING HOURS...THE SNOW SHOULD TAPER TO SNOW SHOWERS NORTH...WITH ALL PRECIPITATION ENDING FROM PHILADELPHIA SOUTH AND EAST. WHILE HEAVY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED...UNTREATED ROADWAYS WILL LIKELY BECOME SLIPPERY...ESPECIALLY NORTH AND WEST OF PHILADELPHIA WHERE TEMPERATURES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FREEZING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/PHI. GOODMAN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Kent
- When
- January 5, 11:00 AM EST to 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Kent forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.096, -75.505 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, New Castle
- When
- January 5, 11:00 AM EST to 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- New Castle forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.578, -75.639 (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
- Extreme Cold in Florida, January 5, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, January 5, 2001
- Winter Weather in Maryland, January 5, 2001
- Blizzard and Extreme Cold in Alaska, January 5 to 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 5, 2001
- Winter Weather in Virginia, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Weather in West Virginia, January 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Delaware in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Delaware, 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: 5227717, 5227718, 5227719.