An area of low pressure tracked through the Great Lakes on the 30th. This spread precipitation across Virginia.
Every event with a place to put it; 5 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 LWX wrote it up.
An area of low pressure tracked through the Great Lakes on the 30th. This spread precipitation across Virginia. Low-level cold air remained in place during the morning and early afternoon hours of the 30th allowing for some freezing rain. Ice accumulations ranged from a trace to a few hundredths of an inch across portions of northern Virginia as well as the Shenandoah Valley.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Two hundredths of an inch of ice was reported seven miles southeast of Hermitage on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Two hundredths of an inch of ice was reported across the northern and western portions of Frederick County.
Ice accumulations around two hundredths of an inch were reported just west-southwest of Fletcher.
Ice accumulations around two hundredths of an inch were reported in Monterey as well as at Shenandoah Mountain.
Ice accumulations around one hundredth of an inch were reported three miles north-northwest of Greenfield. Light ice accumulations were also reported in Montebello.
Ice accumulations around two hundredths of an inch were reported along Skyline Drive.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Virginia in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, November 2008
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: 141605, 141606, 141607, 141608, 141609, 141610.