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564206

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event_typeAvalanche
ncei_event_id564,206
episode_id93,811
begin_utc2015-02-21T17:00:00+00:00
end_utc2015-02-21T17:00:00+00:00
stateWEST VIRGINIA
cz_typeZ
cz_nameSUMMERS
deaths_direct0
deaths_indirect0
injuries_direct0
injuries_indirect0
damage_property0.00K
damage_crops0.00K
wfo_sourceBroadcast Media
episode_narrativeRight on the heels of the second surge of bitterly, record cold air to affect the forecast area within the same week and only five days since the previous significant snow storm, yet another significant winter storm impacted the forecast area. This storm was result of complex series of low pressure areas tracking along a stalled front across the southeast states and an upper-trough embedded within a very deep and persistent long-wave trough across the eastern U.S. Snow began to fall during the late morning and early afternoon spreading northward during the late afternoon and evening. Unlike the President's Day snow storm, this storm brought significantly greater two foot amounts to the northern portions of the forecast area, especially along the Interstate 64 corridor, while markedly less snow fell in the southern parts of the forecast area. The vast majority of winter storm-criteria snowfall (4 inches east to 5 inches west/6 hours) fell north of U.S. 460 with this event. Very little snowfall fell south of U.S. 460 and especially across the Virginia and North Carolina Piedmont. Snowfall amounts ranged from less than inch across most counties near the North Carolina border and east of Interstate 77 to two feet of snow across northern and western Greenbrier county West Virginia.||The following are snow and ice totals reported from southeast West Virginia counties within the Blacksburg National Weather Service Forecast area (no ice was reported in this area):||Snowfall:|Western Greenbrier County - 24.0 inches at Droop Mountain and Rainelle to 18.0 inches at Friar Hill,|Eastern Greenbrier County - 19.0 inches at White Sulphur Springs, to 18.0 inches at Ronceverte and Lewisburg to 14.0 inches at Renick,|Mercer County - 12.0 inches at Flat Top to 6.0 inches at Athens,|Monroe County - 8.0 inches at Peterstown and Lindside, to 7.0 inches at Union and Pickaway,|Summers County - 15.5 inches at Hinton to 11.0 inches at Pence Springs.
event_narrativeWVVA Television reported that West Virginia Highway 20 near Hinton was closed because of an avalanche. The highway remained closed well into the next day. Between one and two feet of snow fell in the area on the 21st.
year2,015

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