Winter Storm, Bath
- When
- January 6, 7:00 AM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Bath forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.059, -79.741 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm in Virginia, January 6, 2002
Snow and sleet during the 6th accumulated up to 6 inches across parts of Bath and Tazewell counties.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- 2
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 and sleet during the 6th accumulated up to 6 inches across parts of Bath and Tazewell counties.
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 6, 2:52 AM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 2:52 AM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 252 AM EST SUN JAN 6 2002 FAST MOVG DYNAMICAL EVENT READY TO UNFOLD ACROSS THE AREA STARTING THIS MORN AS MODELS CONT TO SLING STRONG UPR VORT AND ASSOCD ELONGATED SFC WAVE THRU NC THIS AFTN. ALL GUID GNRLY SIM TO YDA WITH QUICK SHOT OF UVV ESPCLY ACROSS THE SRN ZONES ARND MIDDAY WHEN BEST PRD OF UPR DIFLUENCE MOVS THRU IN CONJUNCTION WITH NW QUAD OF DEEPENING 85H LOW. MAIN CONCERN AGAIN WITH QPF GIVEN FAST MOVEMENT AS 3-6 HR SHOT OF UVV MOVES OVER VERY DRY BLYR IN PLACE. MOST GUID A BIT MORE GENEROUS WITH PRECIP AMTS BUT AGAIN LIKE CONSISTENT AVN IN SHOWING A GNRL .50-.75 LIQUID EQUIV ESPCLY S. SNOWFALL AMT PROCS INDICATE PTNL FOR 5-10 INCHES NW NC/SW VA CLOSER TO UPR SUPPORT WITH SWATH OF 4-8 TOTALS ELSW ALONG/W OF THE BLUE RDG. PRBLMS EXIT IN BUFFER VA/NC FOOTHILL CTYS AND FARTHER SE WHERE SOUNDINGS INDICATE WARM NOSE ALOFT AND PTNL FOR MORE ICING THAN MIX. THINK ISOTHERMAL LAYER AND STRONG LIFT TO LKLY PUSH SNOW/SLEET AREA A BIT FARTHER E EVEN AS AVN 85H ABV FREEZING LVL LAGS BACK ALONG THE BLUE RDG. THUS WILL SPLIT OFF A FEW FOOTHILL CTYS AND ADD SOME ACCUM AS WELL AS BEEFING UP ICING ELSW INTO THE PIEDMONT. WONT RAISE TO WARNING SE ATTM FOR FRZG RAIN AS APRS COMBO OF SOME MIX PLUS FAST MOVEMNT TO LIMIT HUGE ICE EVENT. BASED ON CURRENT TEMPS/DEWPTS AND EVAP COOLING WILL LOWER HIGH TEMPS A CAT OR SO. SFC LOW TO MOVE TO THE VA CST THIS EVE AND DEEPEN AS NRN STREAM PHASING TAKES PLACE. EXPECT DRY SLOT TO QUICKLY END PRECIP THIS EVE EXCEPT NW ZONES WHERE WRAP ARND AND UPSLOPE WILL LKLY PRODUCE ANOTHER 1-2 INCHES OVRNGT PER PROGGED QPF. ELSW...MNLY CLDY WITH LOW CHC OF -SHSN REDVLPG SW ZONES AS CAA INCRS OVRNGT. MODELS PROJECT DEFORMATION/FRONTAL ZONE LOBE TO MOVE OVER THE MTNS MON MORN AS ASSOCD 5H TROF FINALLY EDGES TWD THE COAST. THUS PLAN TO CONT -SHSN CHCS SE WVA AND BLEED LOW CHCS EWD TO THE SRN SHEN VLY OTRW MNLY CLDY EXCEPT SE WHERE DOWNSLOPE SHOULD ALLOW SOME BRKS. COLDER GUID TEMPS GNRLY FOLLOWED WITH DECENT CAA AND MIXING ONGOING ESPCLY OVER NEW SNOW COVER OUT W. UPR PATTERN TO FLATTEN A BIT TUE/WED WITH SOME WARMING BEFORE NEXT 5H TROF/SFC FRONT BRINGS A CHC OF -SHSN NW AND -RA ELSW FOR THU. OTRW FEW CHANGES TO REMAINDER OF EXTENDED FOR NOW. FCSTID = 10 ROA 35 27 36 22 / 100 20 30 10 LYH 32 28 37 20 / 100 30 20 0 DAN 33 28 39 22 / 100 20 20 0 BLF 33 20 26 19 / 100 60 50 20 LWB 28 20 24 16 / 100 60 50 20 BCB 30 22 29 18 / 100 20 30 10 TNB 32 23 28 18 / 100 30 30 0 .RNK... .RNK... NC...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR TODAY FOR ZONES NCZ001>002...NCZ018. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES NCZ003>006...NCZ019>020. VA...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR TODAY FOR ZONES VAZ009>020... VAZ022>024...VAZ034>035. WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONE VAZ007. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES VAZ032>033...VAZ043>047...VAZ058>059. WV...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONES WVZ042>045. JH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Winter Storm, Tazewell
- When
- January 6, 7:00 AM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Tazewell forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.125, -81.561 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 6 to 7, 2002
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, January 6 to 7, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, January 6, 2002
- Winter Weather in Vermont, January 6 to 7, 2002
- Winter Storm in New York, January 6 to 7, 2002
- High Wind in Virginia, January 6, 2002
- Tornado in Maryland, January 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Tennessee, January 6, 2002
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Virginia, January 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 6 to 7, 2002
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 6 to 7, 2002
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, 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: 5278357, 5278358.