Ice Storm, Garrett
- When
- January 15, 8:00 PM EST to January 16, 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Garrett forecast zone
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
Ice Storm in Maryland, January 15 to 16, 2013
A fast moving low pressure center brought a mix of winter precipitation to the upper Ohio Valley. Freezing rain accumulations of over one quarter inch occurred across portions of Tucker county West Virginia and Garrett county Maryland.
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 PBZ wrote it up.
A fast moving low pressure center brought a mix of winter precipitation to the upper Ohio Valley. Freezing rain accumulations of over one quarter inch occurred across portions of Tucker county West Virginia and Garrett county Maryland. A light coating of freezing rain mixed with sleet fell over eastern Ohio and the remainder of northern West Virginia. Across western Pennsylvania light mixed freezing rain, sleet and snow produced up to one tenth of an inch of ice with 1 to 2 inches of snow.
Event by event
1 ice storm. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Ice Storm
- Freezing rain accumulating a quarter inch or more of ice, or less where it caused significant damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Cold in Illinois, January 15, 2013
- Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Tennessee, January 15 to 16, 2013
- Winter Storm in Louisiana, January 15, 2013
- Ice Storm in Mississippi, January 15, 2013
- Frost and Freeze in Arizona, January 15, 2013
- Flooding in Tennessee, January 15 to 16, 2013
- Winter Weather in Arkansas, January 15, 2013
- Ice Storm in Louisiana, January 15, 2013
- Ice Storm in Arkansas, January 15, 2013
- Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Tennessee, January 15 to 16, 2013
- Winter Weather in Kentucky, January 15, 2013
- Winter Weather in Texas, January 15, 2013
More
Every storm in Maryland in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, January 2013
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 423742.