S. Moisture from this system fell as a wintry mix across parts of North Carolina.
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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.
Low pressure tracked northeast along the east coast of the U.S. Moisture from this system fell as a wintry mix across parts of North Carolina. Freezing rain impacted the Northern Mountains and Foothill region of North Carolina with ice accretions averaging around one-tenth of an inch to as much as four-tenths of an inch. At the higher end of this range, specific amounts included three-tenths at near Sparta, one-quarter inch near Baldwin, one-quarter inch near Aho, and four-tenths of an inch at North Wilkesboro. Light amounts of sleet and/or snow also fell during this event. Key Impacts: Slick and slushy roads and sidewalks, downed trees and power lines.
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 Dec 16, 1:00 AM EST, 0 minutes earlier.
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Ice accretion totals include four-tenths at North Wilkesboro. Snow and/or sleet amounts were very light. Key Impacts: Slick and slushy roads and sidewalks.
Ice accretion in the county ranged from five-hundredths of an inch one mile southwest of Baldwin, thirteen-hundredths one mile north-northeast of Fleetwood, and one-quarter of an inch one mile southeast of Baldwin. Snow and/or sleet amounts were very light. Key Impacts: Slick and slushy roads and sidewalks.
Ice accretion across the county ranged from eight-hundredths of an inch one mile north of Todd to one-tenth of an inch at locations two miles south-southeast of Boone, one mile north-northwest of Boone, and two miles north-northeast of Boone, to one-quarter inch at a location one mile west-northwest of Aho. Snow and/or sleet amounts were very light. Key Impacts: Slick and slushy roads and sidewalks.
Ice accretion totaled three tenths of an inch three miles northeast of Sparta. Snow and/or sleet amounts were very light. Key Impacts: Slick and slushy roads and sidewalks.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, December 2020
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 930228, 930238, 930253, 930260.