An area of surface low pressure riding along a frontal boundary located along the southeast Gulf coastal region combined with support from an upstream upper-level disturbance to bring a period of snow primarily to the southern counties of the Blacksburg National Weather Service Forecast area. 0 inch across most of the remainder of the forecast area.
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An area of surface low pressure riding along a frontal boundary located along the southeast Gulf coastal region combined with support from an upstream upper-level disturbance to bring a period of snow primarily to the southern counties of the Blacksburg National Weather Service Forecast area. Snowfall amounts ranged from 3.0 to 5.0 inches in the northwest North Carolina mountains to 1.0 to 3.0 inches across the North Carolina Piedmont, to 1.0 to 2.0 inches in southwest Virginia, generally west of Interstate 77, to less than 1.0 inch across most of the remainder of the forecast area. The early morning snowfall caused problems with the morning commute, with a number of traffic accidents noted across the region.
Here are the snowfall amounts reported from the North Carolina counties within the Blacksburg, Virginia National Weather Service Forecast area:
Alleghany County - 2.0 inches in Sparta,|Ashe County - 4.0 inches in Baldwin to 2.0 inches in Jefferson,|Caswell County - 1.5 inch 10S Yanceyville to 1.0 inch in Yanceyville,|Rockingham County - 1.0 inch near Lawsonville,|Stokes County - 1.7 inch 3E King to < 1.0 inch at Pinnacle,|Surry County - 2.0 inches at Pilot Mountain to 1.0 inch at Ladonia,|Watauga County - 5.0 inches at Blowing Rock to 2.0 inches 4W of Blowing Rock,|Wilkes County - 3.0 inches at Purlear to 1.5 inches 3S of Buck,|Yadkin County - 2.0 inches at East Bend.
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 Feb 23, 11:57 PM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
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A spotter measured 5.0 inches of snow at Blowing Rock, while the public observed 4.0 inches of snow at Deep Gap and Todd. Other snow amounts across the county observed by a variety of sources were mostly in the 2.0 to 3.0 inch range.
A CoCoRaHS observer measured 3.0 inches of snow at Purlear, while the public measured 2.5 inches at Hays and 2.0 inches at Millers Creek.
A spotter measured 4.0 inches of snow in Baldwin. The public measured 3.0 inches in West Jefferson. Another spotter measured 3.0 inches in Yates. Amounts elsewhere were less than 3.0 inches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, February 2015
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: 564325, 564327, 564320.