The snowstorm of January 15 to 17, 1964

Name: The snowstorm of January 15 to 17, 1964
Start: 1964-01-15
End: 1964-01-17
Location: South

January 15 to 17, 1964 · Category 2, Significant in the South

A snowstorm NOAA ranked in 1 region on its Regional Snowfall Index, strongest in the South.

The storm by region

Each region’s thresholds are its own, so the same depth of snow counts for more in the South than in the Northeast.

Region	Index	Category	Area with snow (sq mi)	People under snow	Above the top threshold (sq mi)	People above it
South	4.86	Category 2, Significant	214,726	22,163,846	19	369

The Regional Snowfall Index is NOAA’s ranking of snowstorms east of the Rockies by how much snow fell, over how wide an area and on how many people, region by region: the area and the population above four snowfall thresholds set for each region, weighted against that region’s own history. A storm is scored in each region it reached, on a scale from 1, notable, to 5, extreme.

In the Storm Events record

The Storm Events Database holds winter weather only from 1996, so this storm has no episodes there.

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Sources

NOAA NCEI Regional Snowfall Index, and the Storm Events Database for the episodes.