North Carolina, 2001

Heavy Snow in North Carolina, March 6, 2001

March 6, 2001 · NWS GSP · 7 events in 7 counties and zones

7 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 5 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
7

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 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 6, 3:48 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 3:48 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

7 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Buncombe

When
March 6, 7:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Buncombe forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.611, -82.530 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Burke

When
March 6, 7:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Burke forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC

Heavy Snow, Haywood

When
March 6, 7:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Haywood forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.556, -82.982 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, McDowell

When
March 6, 7:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
McDowell forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC

Heavy Snow, Northern Jackson

When
March 6, 7:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Northern Jackson forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.287, -83.141 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Southern Jackson

When
March 6, 7:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Southern Jackson forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.287, -83.141 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Swain

When
March 6, 7:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Swain forecast zone
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.487, -83.493 (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

More

Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, March 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5237394, 5237395, 5237396, 5237500, 5237501, 5237502, 5237503.