Winter Weather, Sussex
- When
- February 9, 3:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Sussex forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 41.140, -74.690 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather in New Jersey, February 9, 2001
Patchy light freezing rain preceding a warm front moved through Sussex County during the morning of the 9th. Water equivalents were on the light side, generally less than five hundredths of an inch.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- 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
- 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 PHI wrote it up.
Patchy light freezing rain preceding a warm front moved through Sussex County during the morning of the 9th. Water equivalents were on the light side, generally less than five hundredths of an inch. Nevertheless, untreated roadways became treacherous. Sussex County was on the southern edge of the precipitation shield and by mid morning, the freezing rain had ended and temperatures rose above the freezing mark.
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 Feb 8, 8:35 PM EST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 8:35 PM EST, 6 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 835 PM EST THU FEB 8 2001 WL UPDATE ZONES TO CONFINE CHC -RA/-FZRA NRN THREE ZONES TO AFT MIDNITE AND OTHERWISE TO SAY CONSIDERABLE HI CLDS WITH LOTS OF CI/AC UPSTREAM AS DEPICTED ON STLT. SLGT CHG TO WINDS MOST ZONES WHERE WL SAY SE BCMG S OVRNGT...AS WELL AS SOME MINOR TEMP TWEAKS. REST AS FROM PREVIOUS... ********************************************************************* DISC: OTHER THAN A FEW FLRYS...PCPN TODAY STAYED TO OUR N. I WILL CONT TO MENTION A MINIMAL CHC FOR LGT RN/SPRNKLS IN OUR 3 NRN ZNS TNGT INTO ERY FRI. SINCE TEMPS HAVE BEEN RISING VERY SLOWLY...THERE MAY BE AN ISOLATED MOUNTAIN VALLEY OR 2 IN THE POCONOS WHERE TEMPS WILL STILL BE AT OR A DEG OR 2 BELOW FREEZING FOR A FEW HOURS THIS EVENING...OTRW TEMPS WILL BE STEADY OR RISE SLOWLY THRU THE NGT. PLENTY OF CLOUDS EXPECTED NRN ZNS TNGT AND FRI. A S TO SW FLOW OF SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR WILL BRING PTLY CLDY SKIES TO SRN SECTIONS. TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO WARM UP CONSIDERABLY TMRW...ALTHOUGH THEY SHOULD REMAIN JUST BELOW RECORD LEVELS. TO CLIMB HIGHER... WE WOULD ALMOST NEED FULL SUN...AND THAT DOESNT LOOK FEASIBLE. THE STRONG COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE W WILL CROSS THE FA LATE FRI NGT ACCOMPANIED BY SHOWERS. WILL GO WITH 90 PCT N TO 60 PCT S. CANT RULE OUT THE PSBLTY OF A TSTM WITH THE FRONT...BUT ATTM IT DOES NOT APPEAR LIKELY. A FEW SHOWERS MAY LINGER TO 7 OR 8AM SAT BEFORE MOVING OFF TO THE E. COLD AIR WILL RUSH IN BEHIND THE FRONT CAUSING TEMPS TO REMAIN STEADY OR FALL SLOWLY DURG THE DAY SAT. THE ONE EXCEPTION TO THIS WILL BE OUR XTRM SRN AND ERN ZNS...WHERE TEMPS MAY CLIMB A FEW DEGREES LATE SAT MRNG BFR STARTING TO FALL IN THE AFTN. PARTIAL CLEARING WILL ALSO OCCUR BY SAT AFTN. SHOULD BECOME PARTLY SUNNY N AND MOSTLY SUNNY S. NW WINDS WILL PICK UP TO 20 TO 30 MPH SAT. MARINE: WILL MENTION THAT SCA WILL PROBABLY BE NEEDED FRI NGT OCEAN AND BAY. WILL ALSO HEADLINE PSBLTY OF GALE WARNINGS OCEAN AND LWR BAY FOR SAT. .PHI...NONE. RW /
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Winter Weather
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, February 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, February 9, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Michigan, February 9 to 12, 2001
- High Wind in Ohio, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flood in Michigan, February 9 to 14, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, February 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, February 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, February 9, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in New York, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, February 9, 2001
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, February 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: 5231878.