Low pressure moving through the Mid Atlantic region produced between one half inch and two inches of snow across portions of the Lower Maryland Eastern Shore from Wednesday evening, January 26th into early Thursday morning, January 27th.
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.
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 AKQ wrote it up.
Low pressure moving through the Mid Atlantic region produced between one half inch and two inches of snow across portions of the Lower Maryland Eastern Shore from Wednesday evening, January 26th into early Thursday morning, January 27th.
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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 26, 4:59 PM EST, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
135 PM EST WED JAN 26 2011
VAZ049-062>064-070>076-078-081>086-088>097-261930-
CAROLINE VA-CHARLES CITY VA-CHESAPEAKE VA-CHESTERFIELD VA-ESSEX
VA-GLOUCESTER VA-GOOCHLAND VA-HANOVER VA-HENRICO VA-ISLE OF WIGHT
VA-JAMES CITY VA-KING AND QUEEN VA-KING WILLIAM VA-LANCASTER
VA-LOUISA VA-MATHEWS VA-MIDDLESEX VA-NEW KENT VA-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON
VA-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH VA-PRINCE GEORGE VA-RICHMOND VA-SOUTHAMPTON
VA-SUFFOLK VA-SURRY VA-SUSSEX VA-WESTMORELAND VA-YORK VA-
135 PM EST WED JAN 26 2011
AT 132 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
NEARLY SOLID LINE OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
FROM GUM SPRING TO DOWNTOWN SUFFOLK...OR FROM 7 MILES EAST OF
HADENSVILLE TO DOWNTOWN SUFFOLK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THE
SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
DOWNTOWN RICHMOND AROUND 140 PM EST...
FREDERICKS HALL AROUND 140 PM EST...
WRIGHTS CORNER AROUND 145 PM EST...
WARDS CORNER AROUND 150 PM EST...
OCEAN VIEW AROUND 155 PM EST...
YORKTOWN AROUND 200 PM EST...
NEWTOWN AROUND 205 PM EST...
TAPPAHANNOCK AND WARSAW AROUND 210 PM EST...
A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO 30 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS. ALSO...THERE WILL BE
INFREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLY SMALL
HAIL.
LAT...LON 3825 7723 3795 7660 3764 7649 3788 7677
3786 7677 3762 7646 3726 7639 3724 7649
3712 7626 3695 7641 3695 7642 3722 7665
3723 7693 3720 7668 3689 7647 3695 7623
3661 7651 3782 7800 3808 7781 3800 7764
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall amounts generally ranged between one half inch and two inches across the county. Cambridge reported 1.5 inches of snow.
Snowfall amounts generally ranged between one half inch and two inches across the county. Salisbury reported 1.3 inches of snow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maryland in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, January 2011
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: 280563, 280565.