A potent quick moving mid level disturbance move across central North Carolina on January 8th. The combination of marginal cold air in place and precipitation rates was enough to allow for a change over to light snow in the northwest Piedmont of central North Carolina during the evening hours.
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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 RAH wrote it up.
A potent quick moving mid level disturbance move across central North Carolina on January 8th. The combination of marginal cold air in place and precipitation rates was enough to allow for a change over to light snow in the northwest Piedmont of central North Carolina during the evening hours. However, temperatures remained near to just above freezing, resulting in generally less than an inch of snowfall on grassy areas. This result in no impacts across the affected area.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall amounts ranged from a trace across southern portions of the county to around 1 inch across northern portions of the county.
Snowfall amounts ranged from a half an inch across southern portions of the county to around 1.5 inches across northern portions of the county.
Snowfall amounts ranged from a trace across southern portions of the county to around 1 inch across northern portions of the county.
Snowfall amounts ranged from a trace across southern portions of the county to around 2 inch across northern portions of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2021Every state in 2021This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, January 2021
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 938598, 938599, 938601, 938602.