Heavy Snow, Floyd
- When
- January 8, 6:00 AM EST to 11:30 AM EST
- Where
- Floyd County, Floyd
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.932, -80.362 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Virginia, January 8, 2001
Snow accumulated 2 to 4 inches during the morning of the 8th. Numerous accidents with minor injuries were reported in Floyd County, on snow and ice covered roads.
Where it happened
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- Cold
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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 RNK wrote it up.
Snow accumulated 2 to 4 inches during the morning of the 8th. Numerous accidents with minor injuries were reported in Floyd County, on snow and ice covered roads.
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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 8, 3:00 AM EST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 3:00 AM EST, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 300 AM EST MON JAN 8 2001 THE MODELS ARE FAIRLY SIMILAR NEAR TERM WITH SFC LOW DEVELOPING OVER GA AND TRACKING NE THROUGH THE ERN CAROLINAS. THE DEEPER MOISTURE APPEARS THAT IT WILL SLIDE JUST TO OUR SOUTHEAST...HOWEVER...WITH DIGGING NRN STREAM UPPER LEVEL TROF THERE WILL BE A PERIOD OF UVM ACROSS THE ENTIRE FCST AREA THIS MORNING. HAVE BEEN MONITORING SATELLITE AND RADAR...AND LATEST TRENDS SUGGEST SOME WESTWARD BACKBUILD OF PRECIP AS CLOUD LEAF EXPANDS NORTHWARD IN RESPONSE TO THE DIGGING TROF. UPSTREAM SFC OBS INDICATE ABOUT 2 TENTHS OF AN INCH OF LIQUID ALONG THE BACKSIDE OF THE PRECIP SHIELD...AND THIS IS FAIRLY CLOSE TO MODEL FCST WITH UPWARDS OF A QUARTER INCH OF LIQUID FCST OVER OUR FCST AREA TODAY. THE BIG FCST CHALLENGE FOR TODAY IS P-TYPE. AT THE PRESENT TIME...COLUMN TEMPS ARE WARM ENOUGH TO SUPPORT RAIN ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA. MODELS ARE FCSTNG A RAPID COOLING OF THE COLUMN WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE BETWEEN 09 AND 15 UTC...RESULTING IN A P-TYPE CHANGE FROM RAIN TO SNOW. CURRENT THINKING IS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS WILL SEE THE CHANGE OVER FIRST...AND WILL HAVE THE GREATEST CHC OF RECEIVING ENOUGH ACCUMULATION TO WARRANT ADVISORIES. THE HIGHEST QPF APPEARS THAT IT WILL BE IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE CWA...SO WILL CONFINE THE ADVISORIES THERE...SEE WWA PROPOSAL. EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE...THICKNESSES SUGGEST THE ENTIRE EVENT WILL BE ALL RAIN. HOWEVER...WILL KEEP THE FCST CONSISTENT FROM THE PREVIOUS RUN WITH MENTION OF POTENTIAL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW OR A MIX BEFORE ENDING. HIGH TEMPS TODAY WILL BE WHATEVER THEY ARE AT 12 UTC. WL ENTERTAIN FALLING TEMPS...ESP IN THE WEST WHERE CAA WILL KICK IN THIS AFTN. UPPER TROF WILL SUPPORT CONTINUATION OF SHSN IN THE MTNS TONIGHT...TAPERING TO FLURRIES TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY AND THE FIRST PART OF THURSDAY LOOKS DRY. ACCORDING TO THE 00 UTC AVN...THE NEXT SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE A FAST MOVER...SO MAY HAVE TO DO SOME ADJUSTING TO THE WEEKEND FCST BY ELIMINATING SOME OF THE FCST PRECIP THAT IS MENTIONED IN THE LATER PERIODS. WILL TAKE A PEEK AT THE MRF FIRST. FCSTID = 11 PRELIM NUMBERS ROA 42 25 33 23 / 80 20 10 0 LYH 40 24 34 21 / 80 10 10 0 DAN 40 27 37 23 / 80 10 10 0 BLF 34 16 21 14 / 80 60 30 10 LWB 31 18 23 12 / 80 60 30 10 BCB 32 18 27 15 / 80 40 20 5 TNB 33 18 21 14 / 90 60 30 10 .RNK... NC...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY FOR NCZ001-002-018. VA...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY FOR VAZ009>018. WV...NONE. PM ...CORRECTED FOR ADVISORY CODI=NG...
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heavy Snow in California, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Winter Weather in West Virginia, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Rain in California, January 8, 2001
- Flood in California, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Dust Storm in California, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 8 to 9, 2001
- Flood in California, January 8, 2001
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, 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: 5233448.