West Virginia, 2025Winter Storm in West Virginia, January 19 to 20, 2025
January 19 to 20, 2025 · NWS RNK · 1 event in 1 county or zone
A combination of several weather features resulted in moderate snowfall accumulations across the mountains, especially over western Greenbrier County in southeast West Virginia. A strong upper level storm system rotated through a broader upper level trough that was tracking east through the central US, while a second upper level storm system moved into the Ohio Valley, which spawned a surface…
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- 0
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- 0
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- None recorded
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A combination of several weather features resulted in moderate snowfall accumulations across the mountains, especially over western Greenbrier County in southeast West Virginia. A strong upper level storm system rotated through a broader upper level trough that was tracking east through the central US, while a second upper level storm system moved into the Ohio Valley, which spawned a surface low pressure system that deepened as it moved off the Georgia Coast.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jan 19, 6:22 AM EST, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 6:22 AM EST, 6 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>Winter Storm, Western Greenbrier
- When
- January 19, 12:45 PM EST to January 20, 7:15 AM EST
- Where
- Western Greenbrier forecast zone
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 37.947, -80.453 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Up to 6 .5 inches of snow fell in Western Greenbrier County during January 19 through January 20. The highest accumulations were confined to the far western portion of the county, and most of the rest of the county received between a trace to 4 inches of snow. Key Impacts: power outages, slick roads.
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- A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
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