Winter Storm in West Virginia, January 19 to 20, 2001

Name: Winter Storm in West Virginia, January 19 to 20, 2001
Start: 2001-01-19T06:00
End: 2001-01-20T12:00
Location: West Virginia

January 19 to 20, 2001 · NWS PBZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 winter storm, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Storm, Tucker

When: January 19, 6:00 AM EST to January 20, 12:00 PM EST
Where: Tucker forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT

An area of low pressure moving up the Appalachians spread a mix of sleet, freezing rain and snow across portions of northern West Virginia. Freezing rain turned out to be the main problem from this storm, as several locations across Tucker County reported ice accumulations of around ¼ inch by the early morning hours of the 19th. Additional snowfall of a few inches through the morning of the 20th produced numerous travel problems across the county.

What these are

Winter Storm: A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in West Virginia in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in West 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5227561.