A strong cold front moved across the southern Appalachians late on the 1st of January ushering in very cold air behind it. Snow began in the favored upslope areas of western Greenbrier County on the 2nd and accumulated up to 10 inches in some parts of the county by the morning of the 3rd.
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 RNK wrote it up.
A strong cold front moved across the southern Appalachians late on the 1st of January ushering in very cold air behind it. Snow began in the favored upslope areas of western Greenbrier County on the 2nd and accumulated up to 10 inches in some parts of the county by the morning of the 3rd.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Crawley reported a storm total of 10 inches and 9 inches of snow was reported in Quinwood. A spotter in Friars Hill reported 6 inches of snow.
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