Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 19, 2002

Name: Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 19, 2002
Start: 2002-01-19T05:00
End: 2002-01-19T11:00
Location: Ohio

January 19, 2002 · NWS RLX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A quick 4 to 7 inches of snow accumulated across the county. The upper limit was along the Ohio River.

Where it happened

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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 RLX wrote it up.

A quick 4 to 7 inches of snow accumulated across the county. The upper limit was along the Ohio River.

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 19, 4:15 AM EST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 4:15 AM EST, 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
415 AM EST SAT JAN 19 2002

MID DECK MOVING IN QUICKLY OUT AHEAD OF MAIN PRECIP MAKER.  RAIN HAS
FALLEN ACROSS TN AND SOUTH...WITH SNOW FOR KY AS TEMPS HUDDLE AROUND
FREEZING.  AS FOR WV...TEMPS REMAIN BELOW FREEZING.  EXPECTING MAIN
PRECIP BATCH TO ENTER THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES AROUND 4 AM...WHICH HAS
HAPPENED.  SNOWING OUT THE DOOR OF RLX AND HTS HAS PICKED UP A TRACE
OF PRECIP...WITH LIGHT SNOW AND 1SM VIS.

CURRENT THINKING FOR SATURDAY SEEMS TO BE ON TRACK SO FAR AS NEW
MODEL RUNS COME IN.  WILL KEEP WITH ADVISORY AMONG MOST OF THE
ZONES...AND WARNING ALONG NORTHEASTERN MTS.  STILL LOOKING FOR THAT
MIXED BAG OF PRECIP ACROSS SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA...WITH 2-5 INCHES OF
ACCUMULATION THROUGH TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF THE AREA.

AVN SHOWING LIGHT PRECIP FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON...WITH GREATEST
AMOUNTS POSSIBLE ALONG NORTHERN TIER.  SHOULD BE ALL RAIN IF IT WERE
TO NUDGE SOUTHWARD.  SEEMS THAT THIS SYSTEM WILL PASS JUST TO THE
NORTH.

.RLX...
WV...WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 4 AM EST SATURDAY UNTIL 1000 PM EST SATURDAY FOR
ZONES WVZ037>040...WVZ046>047.

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY STARTING AT 4AM TIL THE WINDOW OF 7PM-10PM FOR
WVZ005>011-013>020-024>036

VA...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SATURDAY 4AM-10PM VAZ003-004.
KY...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SATURDAY 4AM-7PM KYZ101>103...KYZ105.
OH...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SATURDAY 4AM-7PM OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087.

.END/ KS

The radar

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

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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Lawrence

When: January 19, 5:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
Where: Lawrence forecast zone
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.599, -82.537 (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

Every storm in Ohio in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Ohio, January 2002

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: 5276557.