A storm system developed off the coast of Virginia early Monday, February 5, 2001 and moved northeast . It moved across extreme southeast coastal New England late Monday night and into the Gulf of Maine early Tuesday, February 6th.
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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.
The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
A storm system developed off the coast of Virginia early Monday, February 5, 2001 and moved northeast . It moved across extreme southeast coastal New England late Monday night and into the Gulf of Maine early Tuesday, February 6th. Steady snow spread across the area by the afternoon of Monday, February 5th and continued overnight and was heavy at times. The snow tapered off to flurries Tuesday morning, February 6th. A woman was killed in an automobile accident with a snowplow near the Village of Lunenburg. Otherwise there were some accidents reported. A barn roof collapsed near the Town of Norton, apparently due to the weight of the snow after the storm ended. Across the county, generally 12 to 16 inches of snow fell, with Island Pond reporting 16 inches.
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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 5, 9:52 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
952 PM EST MON FEB 5 2001
UPDATED ZONES ISSUED WITH THE BIG CHANGE BEING SNOWFALL AMTS
IN CT RVR VLY. AS PRVS AFDBTV ADDRESSED...STG DEFORMATION BAND
ACRS NH MUCH OF LATE AFTN/EVENING DID MOVE INTO CT RVR VLY...THE
MAGNITUDE STL SOMEWHAT IMPRESSIVE.
KLEB HAS RPTD 1/4SM +SN FOR >4 HRS WITH >0.70 QPF AND SOME GROUND
TRUTH RPTS AFT 7 PM HAS SHOWN 3-4 IN/HR SNOWFALL RATES WITH SNOW
TOTALS 12-18 INCHES IN CT RVR VLY. THW LIQUID CONTENT AND ACTUAL
SNOWFALL AMTS WL WEIGHT HEAVILY ON LIMBS AND TREES WITH SCT POWER
OUTAGES A STRONG PSBLTY.
ELSEWHERE...CXLD WNTR WX ADV FOR ADRNDKS OF ESSEX CTY NY.
UPDATED ZONES AND WSWBTV ALRDY ISSUED.
.BTV...WNTR STM WRNG VTZ003-004-007-010>012 THROUGH TONIGHT.
WNTR WX ADV NYZ035-VTZ002-005-006-009 THROUGH TONIGHT.
SLWThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Storm, Essex | 2001-02-05 | 46 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Vermont in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, February 2001
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: 5234345.