Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Perry
- When
- January 3, 12:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Perry forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.737, -82.236 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Extreme Cold in Ohio, January 3, 2001
New Lexington registered 5 below zero at dawn.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
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 RLX wrote it up.
New Lexington registered 5 below zero at dawn.
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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 2, 11:30 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 11:30 PM EST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1130 PM EST TUE JAN 2 2001 RADIATION GOING GREAT GUNS IN SE OH AND MUCH OF WV. ALREADY MINUS 2 IN ELKINS AND PLUS 1 IN LANCASTER OHIO. WILL LOWER MIN TEMPS FOR TONIGHT ALL BUT FAR SOUTHERN ZONES. .RLX... WV...NONE. VA...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. .END/ZINN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
- Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Guam, January 3, 2001
- Rip Current in Guam, January 3 to 4, 2001
- Wildfire and High Wind in California, January 3 to 8, 2001
- Wildfire in California, January 3 to 5, 2001
- High Wind in California, January 3, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, January 3, 2001
- Extreme Cold in West Virginia, January 3, 2001
- Dense Fog in California, January 3, 2001
- Lake-Effect Snow in New York, January 3 to 4, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, January 3, 2001
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, 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: 5229035.